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-Great Cultural Revolution
California Radicals Say Math Is Racist, Set Out to Cancel It in Public Schools
2021-05-20
PJ Media
The teaching of mathematics is part of the white supremacist culture and must be purged of all racist influences, says the California school board.
Only the irrational numbers
What kind of racist influences? To begin with, there is no right or wrong answer in math. Any answer is equally valid. Princeton Professor Sergiu Klainerman, a refugee from Ceausescu’s Romania, likens the woke culture to a "soft" kind of Marxism that "enforces its ideology not by jailing dissenters or physically eliminating them, but by social shaming, mob punishment, guilt by association, and coerced speech."

Klainerman, a professor of mathematics, is very angry.

"The idea that focusing on getting the ’right answer’ is now considered among some self-described progressives a form of bias or racism is offensive and extraordinarily dangerous. The entire study of mathematics is based on clearly formulated definitions and statements of fact. If this were not so, bridges would collapse, planes would fall from the sky, and bank transactions would be impossible."

Yes, but that’s a small price to pay if we’re going to get rid of all racism everywhere, right?
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Lazarus Long
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#21  Worth noting is that all this math be racis' BS in our universities is coming not out of the math and engineering departments, but from math and engineering EDUCATION departments.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-05-20 21:50  

#20  May they all live in houses, work in high rises, fly in airplanes, drive cars and drink water from objects designed and built by imbeciles.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051   2021-05-20 16:14  

#19  Education under the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot’s new order in the classroom.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-05-20 13:33  

#18  Calling pi irrational is so not inclusive. Body shaming is wrong H8R!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-05-20 13:32  

#17  Against California’s Ethnic-Studies Curriculum
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-05-20 13:29  

#16  There are three kinds of people in this world; those who can count, and those who can't.
Posted by: AuburnTom   2021-05-20 11:54  

#15  pi is oppression! We demand that it be equal to the number of genders at the time otherwise it's GENDERIST!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-05-20 11:49  

#14  Anti-derivatives, uh uh nah! Black Lives Matter, Anti-Fa!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-05-20 11:25  

#13  Differentiation is genocide!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-20 11:14  

#12  The number 'one' is a bigot.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-05-20 10:58  

#11  Guess the Brown Aquaduct is racist.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-05-20 10:55  

#10  So, lets have a law that any outfit making a product that may harm its user (cars, aircraft, power tools, etc.) must disclose if its hiring practices include engineers who have been spared exposure to rayciss maff in the course of their edumacation.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-05-20 09:54  

#9  ^That's not math. That's arithmetic - you can do it on calculator in your phone.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-20 09:43  

#8  Wren, you have to weigh them, keep up with how much you have, count the money. You don't just buy them by the handful.
Posted by: Chris   2021-05-20 09:37  

#7  Quit funding schools, start funding students. The state can be a landlord, maintain and rent facilities, but not a provider of services.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-05-20 08:38  

#6  Go ahead. California barely teaches it anyway. Might as well complete the collapse.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-05-20 08:25  

#5  Huh?
Posted by: Wren   2021-05-20 07:50  

#4  Hard to sell drugs without math
Posted by: Chris   2021-05-20 07:43  

#3  Are they implying that the average negroid brain is not capable of what almost everyone else on the planet can do?
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-05-20 06:17  

#2  "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Lazarus Long

...And even some of those are questionable.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-05-20 06:06  

#1  Ooops.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-20 03:59  

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