[The_Media_never_lie]

Mao's cultural revolution will make us more ignorant.

What a silly article. Scary that someone wrote it, however.

[cranked]

Actually, the panel or whatever that judged that math was racist are racists.....

[doorgunner69]

Like, you know, Dude...
Math is HARD!!

Got to be racist, only those white people and Asians are any good at it.

[blueplum]

now this is a peachy argument - Math is racist so Islam is racist, China is racist, Egyptians are racist and so are Assyrians/Sumarians/Canaanites/Phoenicians - who all used math

[Fred Hayek]

I don’t think the author agrees with it, instead he is describing the insanity infecting academia.

This is way too absurd for even the Babylon Bee. But then when you have academics in mathematics education departments publishing screeds like “logic and reason is the perpetuation of white cishet patriarchy”, the so-called intellectuals have gone ‘round the bend. We are surely headed toward Idiocracy, but not like that in the movie. It will be more like everyone except the self appointed elite afraid to think a thought. Imagine the Chinese Cultural Revolution on steroids and meth. How much further to Pol Pot territory?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Geez, people. REBEL against this s***

[The Toll]

How not to explore the stars 101

[4Liberty]

[RetiredTexasVet]

Not the Babylon Bee .... color me surprised!

[fr_freak]

Joe McCarthy was 100% correct, and our society will not be whole again until every communist is rooted out of every little nook and cranny.

[Savage Beast]

'The group concludes with a call for a “pursuit of justice” within math.'

Why not just abolish the racist, deplorable, abominable thing altogether?

[Savage Beast]

So if you want to learn algebra, geometry, calculus, etc., TOO BAD! You’re going to engage in conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism instead! TOUGH LUCK!

[Chode]

[maxwellsmart_agent]

In my whole life, I have never read anything so stupid. Math is not racist. It can’t be. It has nothing to do in any way, fashion, or otherwise to do with race.

[Fedora]

Here are the signatories to the MAA’s statement. Diaz Eaton, a social justice activist, appears to be the lead nutjob:

Math Community Members:
Carrie Diaz Eaton, Chair, Committee for Minority Participation in Mathematics
Francesca Bernardi, Committee for Minority Participation in Mathematics
Christopher Goff, Committee for Minority Participation in Mathematics
Kamuela Yong, Committee for Minority Participation in Mathematics
Margaret Reese, Committee for Minority Participation in Mathematics
Michael Pearson, Executive Director, MAA
Michael Dorff, President of the MAA
Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer, Senior Director for Programs, MAA
Victor Piercey, Chair of the Michigan Section of the MAA
Jenna Carpenter, Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences
Nancy Sattler, member AMATYC, MAA, TPSE, & Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences
Kathryn Kozak, AMATYC President
Anne Dudley, AMATYC Executive Director
Yun Kang, AMS representative for Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences
Omayra Ortega, Editor-in-Chief of the NAM newsletter and NAM representative for Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences
Jennifer Quinn, President-Elect of the MAA
James A. M. Álvarez, MAA Board of Directors & MAA Congress Representative for Minority Interests
Marilyn Elaine Mays, Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences