- 12 Oct 2017 14:57
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/20113/pea ... exit-modal
The SJW-talk here is so thick I could barely understand what they were trying to say in some of these quotes.
This "math is racist" meme has been coming up with increasing frequency over the years. On the one hand, it's widely known that people of above average intelligence find subjects like trigonometry challenging, as distinct of course from the small segment of any population that has a talent for math. On the other hand, it's also an open secret that large numbers of kids are allowed to cheat their way through highschool so that the numbers will show less racial disparity. One problem is that public schooling doesn't end until the 12th grade (in China and other east Asian countries, it ends at 9th grade for those who can't do math well enough and that helps to avoid problems like these) but I digress. The real question is how people can claim that math is racist with a straight face.
As I understand it, letting kids cheat their way through classes probably makes you feel bad. But if you required everyone to actually know the material, you'd look like a racist and that must be absolutely terrifying in a western public school right now. So the way they try to resolve this is they go through ideological revolutions (and by revolution I mean the revolving kind) and one of the stops on that circle is to conclude that "math itself is racist, not me."
What is probably happening here is if they accept that some people just aren't very good at math on average, it would trigger them because they'd start thinking that racism is justified, which probably requires a presumption that we can't just leave other people alone even if they are worse at math on average. I find this final conclusion to be a little strange since the days of colonialism and so-on have been over for a long time, as such it probably doesn't matter if the averaged whites and Asians are better at math than the averaged blacks and so-on. Even so these conniptions apparently can't be stopped. Sad!
In a joint statement released last year, two organizations, TODOS: Mathematics for All and the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) said "social justice" is "a key priority in the access to, engagement with, and advancement in mathematics education for our country’s youth.”
"[A] social justice stance interrogates and challenges the roles power, privilege, and oppression play in the current unjust system of mathematics education — and in society as a whole," reads the lengthy missive.
NCSM and TODOS went on to assert that, historically, math has perpetuated "segregation and separation" since "mathematics achievement, often measured by standardized tests, has been used as a gate-keeping tool to sort and rank students by race, class, and gender starting in elementary school.”
"Citing the practice of 'tracking,'" notes Campus Reform, "in which pupils are sorted by academic ability into groups for certain classes, NCSM and TODOS argue that 'historically, mathematics and the perceived ability to learn mathematics have been used to educate children into different societal roles such as leadership/ruling class and labor/working class leading to segregation and separation.'"
The SJW-talk here is so thick I could barely understand what they were trying to say in some of these quotes.
This "math is racist" meme has been coming up with increasing frequency over the years. On the one hand, it's widely known that people of above average intelligence find subjects like trigonometry challenging, as distinct of course from the small segment of any population that has a talent for math. On the other hand, it's also an open secret that large numbers of kids are allowed to cheat their way through highschool so that the numbers will show less racial disparity. One problem is that public schooling doesn't end until the 12th grade (in China and other east Asian countries, it ends at 9th grade for those who can't do math well enough and that helps to avoid problems like these) but I digress. The real question is how people can claim that math is racist with a straight face.
As I understand it, letting kids cheat their way through classes probably makes you feel bad. But if you required everyone to actually know the material, you'd look like a racist and that must be absolutely terrifying in a western public school right now. So the way they try to resolve this is they go through ideological revolutions (and by revolution I mean the revolving kind) and one of the stops on that circle is to conclude that "math itself is racist, not me."
What is probably happening here is if they accept that some people just aren't very good at math on average, it would trigger them because they'd start thinking that racism is justified, which probably requires a presumption that we can't just leave other people alone even if they are worse at math on average. I find this final conclusion to be a little strange since the days of colonialism and so-on have been over for a long time, as such it probably doesn't matter if the averaged whites and Asians are better at math than the averaged blacks and so-on. Even so these conniptions apparently can't be stopped. Sad!
Orb Team Re-Assemble!