Mathematics association declares math is racist

[rangerrebew]

Mathematics association declares math is racist
 
 
Barrett Wilson Montreal, QC
October 3, 2020 2:57 PM
 
The Mathematical Association of America released a statement Friday claiming both that mathematicians should engage in “uncomfortable conversations” about race, and that policies of from the Trump administration, like the lack of a mask mandate in the United States, are somehow an affront to mathematics. The group concludes with a call for a “pursuit of justice” within math.

“Thanks to science and mathematics, we understand now that masks, social distancing, frequent, rapid, mass testing, and contact tracing are all fundamental to keep our communities safer during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the association wrote.

"Yet policies at the federal level have not consistently reflected these facts; for example, choosing not to incorporate a mask-mandate in the US has had serious consequences.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/mathematical-association-decries-math-as-inherently-biased

[rangerrebew]

I guess blacks shouldn't be taught math, then.  They also shouldn't be allowed to learn it on their own as that would be "cultural apporpriation."

[aligncare]

I guess blacks shouldn't be taught math, then.  They also shouldn't be allowed to learn it on their own as that would be "cultural apporpriation."

 

I think math is colorblind. Call it a hunch.

[cato potatoe]

OK, two points:

A mask mandate is unconstitutional.
No math is allowed in a conversation about race. 

[240B]

Everything the wackos claim to be 'White Supremacy' are all Great things.
Math - Supremacy
Punctual - Supremacy
No criminal record - Supremacy
Literacy Book Club - Supremacy
Cleanliness, dress with Self Respect - Supremacy
2 cars, 2 kids, House in the suburbs - Supremacy
The Black radicals are pointing out every single good thing about society and nature and claiming that it shows White Supremacy.
Yes. They are right. I can only agree with them. When a Black racist yells at me that math and language is White Supremacy...well OK?
So what? You are just acknowledging the obvious. What do you want me to do about it?

[andy58-in-nh]

Math is racist.
Science is racist.
Reason is racist.
Logic is racist.
Orthodox Christianity and Judaism are racist.
Western culture is racist.
Capitalism is racist.
The American Constitution is racist.

During the past five years, I have seen all of these statements published or else, said out loud.

People who believe these things will stop at nothing to destroy them, because they have no limiting principles.

Instead, they are only informed by anger, fear and hatred. They mock God, and they mock you, too.

Prepare yourselves.

[Slide Rule]

If you are a member it is time to cancel the membership and disavow their rantings.

Remember the mathematics not the ass kissing fearful leadership of an old associates.

Move on.

Slide Rule

[Cyber Liberty]

Not content with debasing the Statistics branch of Mathematics in service of creating a panic about COVID (and the attendant tyranny of mass quarantine), now they're going for the whole enchilada.  Pure Math, itself.

[240B]

Well, that is the whole thing.
Blacks and Radical Liberal Communists are not fighting against what they call White Supremacists.
What they are fighting is simple nature. They are fighting 'reality' itself.
The people who can 'do' and succeed; the people who cannot 'fall away'. It has been like that for a billion years.
Now suddenly, after a billion years of evolution the Left wants to reverse simple existence.
Black people cannot do math (yea sure), so no more math.
Math is racist! NO MORE MATH!! (stupidest thing i've ever heard)

[goatprairie]

Mathematical basics is not an invention of man. They exist independent from man. Man discovers mathematical principles, the same as they discover chemistry or  physics principles. Water will boil at 212 degrees at sea level whether some human is aware of that fact or not. Isaac Newton didn't create the law of gravity, he discovered it.
Congrats to the scientists and inventors who blessed the world with their discoveries and inventions, but  they didn't create the matter that allowed for their discoveries and inventions.
If idiot leftists choose to label math and science as some sort of "white supremacy" conspiracy, they are harming blacks and other non-whites and leaving them to a world of voodoo science and ignorance.

[Wingnut]

Math is racist.
Science is racist.
Reason is racist.
Logic is racist.
Orthodox Christianity and Judaism are racist.
Western culture is racist.
Capitalism is racist.
The American Constitution is racist.

Mowing your grass when white is racist.
Picking up your trash when white is racist.
Adopting a black/mixed race child when white is racist.
Respecting the police when white is racist.
Being white is racist.

[txradioguy]

How about instead of using math as a tool for social "justice" we make sure the educators teach kids that 2+2 = 4

[240B]

Nobody is coming to the facts more slowly than me.
Oprah Winfrey and all the other Black racist radicals have convinced me beyond any doubt.
Blacks are in fact not what I would expect.
Everything they claim as 'White Supremacy' is just simple life for me.
That's how I live. So what? You want to 'normalize' stupidity?
You want to 'normalize' ignorance?
Yea well, good luck with all that. However, I intend to read, and to do the math.
If that 'offends' you, don't care. Suck it.

[Wingnut]

How about instead of using math as a tool for social "justice" we make sure the educators teach kids that 2+2 = 4

2 + 2 = 5

https://thepostmillennial.com/two-plus-two-does-not-equal-five-no-matter-what-twitter-says

[Fishrrman]

Quote:
"The Mathematical Association of America released a statement Friday claiming both that mathematicians should engage in “uncomfortable conversations” about race..."

I agree wholeheartedly.
Let the discussion begin with the topic of this mathematical graph:


And then move on to this one:


... and then finish up right here:
https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html

[skeeter]

Nobody is coming to the facts more slowly than me.
Oprah Winfrey and all the other Black racist radicals have convinced me beyond any doubt.
Blacks are in fact not what I would expect.
Everything they claim as 'White Supremacy' is just simple life for me.
That's how I live. So what? You want to 'normalize' stupidity?
You want to 'normalize' ignorance?
Yea well, good luck with all that. However, I intend to read, and to do the math.
If that 'offends' you, don't care. Suck it.

By their definition everyone with a 100 IQ or higher is 'privileged'.

Down with privilege!

[txradioguy]

2 + 2 = 5

https://thepostmillennial.com/two-plus-two-does-not-equal-five-no-matter-what-twitter-says

I really do fear for the type of "education" my grandsons are going to get here shortly when they enter school.

[goatprairie]

By their definition everyone with a 100 IQ or higher is 'privileged'.

Down with privilege!

I wish there was a word for "reality-challenged." That's the world liberals live in.
I learned early in life that life was neither fair nor unfair....it just was what it was.
Some people were smarter than me, some were better athletes than me, and some were better-looking. That's just the way of the world. People have to maximize their positives, and minimize their negatives.
People who face reality without shrinking or making excuses for failure will succeed far more than people who blame others for their problems.
Obviously, as a country we have too many people who cannot accept reality.
Until that changes (and I'm not holding my breath), this country will continue to slide downhill.

[skeeter]

I wish there was a word for "reality-challenged." That's the world liberals live in.
I learned early in life that life was neither fair nor unfair....it just was what it was.
Some people were smarter than me, some were better athletes than me, and some were better-looking. That's just the way of the world. People have to maximize their positives, and minimize their negatives.
People who face reality without shrinking or making excuses for failure will succeed far more than people who blame others for their problems.
Obviously, as a country we have too many people who cannot accept reality.
Until that changes (and I'm not holding my breath), this country will continue to slide downhill.

What do we expect. Today's 'forward thinker' refuses to even accept their biological gender.

This is no longer a world for the rational.

[Absalom]

Blacks and Radical Liberal Communists are not fighting against what they call White Supremacists.
What they are fighting is simple nature. They are fighting 'reality' itself. The people who can 'do' and succeed; the people who cannot 'fall away'. It has been like that for a billion years. Now suddenly, after a billion years of evolution the Left wants to reverse simple existence. Black people cannot do math (yea sure), so no more math. Math is racist! NO MORE MATH!! (stupidest thing i've ever heard)

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Measuring cultures/societies; categorized by skin color, (white, yellow and black);
has existed since Ancient Rome and has nothing to do w/prejudice.
Whites rank at the top because of their achievements and Blacks at the bottom because
of their lack of same. Anyone acquainted w/a history book knows this!!!

[Cyber Liberty]

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Measuring cultures/societies; categorized by skin color, (white, yellow and black);
has existed since Ancient Rome and has nothing to do w/prejudice.
Whites rank at the top because of their achievements and Blacks at the bottom because
of their lack of same. Anyone familiar w/a history book knows this!!!

We're not allowed to say that anymore.

[Elderberry]

I didn't think it was racist, but I knew it was strange to learn that i²= -1.

[LadyLiberty]

Don't say I didn't warn you:


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[Absalom]

We're not allowed to say that anymore.

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As Tonto often said to the Lone Ranger, "What you menum We, kemosabe???

[Absalom]

Western Civilization/Culture, White in tone, temperament
and color; stands at the top of the Nation/State Pyramid.
It's building blocks include Art and Science.
The foundation of Science is Mathematics, ranging from
Arithmetic to Calculus.