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Meritocracy Is, You Guessed It, A Tool Of Whiteness!

If I wasn't such a suspicious sort, I'd kind of get the impression the whole gist of this crap is 'divide and conquer'.
[ZeroHedge] A math education professor at Brooklyn College contends in a recent academic article that "meritocracy" in math classes is a "tool of whiteness."

Laurie Rubel implicates both meritocracy and "color-blindness" as ideological precepts that hold back racial minorities from succeeding in math classes in an article for the peer-reviewed Journal of Urban Mathematics Education.
By now, this is 'same shit, different day' for most of us, so I just did a few 'graphs.

Posted by Raj 2018-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The only race I see is merit
the only sex I see is merit

the only thing worth a thing is merit

Posted by newc 2018-01-10 00:16|| 2018-01-10 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Why don't we just take everyone who believes this and put them together somewhere and watch them take care of themselves. For example, put them to work in sales in Silicon Valley . . . .

Posted by gorb 2018-01-10 00:37|| 2018-01-10 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 hold back racial minorities from succeeding in math classes

Them Jews and Asians just don't have a chance.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-10 03:21|| 2018-01-10 03:21|| Front Page Top

#4 So, what he's saying is the authors of "The Bell Curve" were correct all along?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-10 08:40|| 2018-01-10 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Pick your next surgeon at random if you believe that.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-01-10 09:04|| 2018-01-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 These yahoos preaching this crap are doing so out of personal experience.

Those of us who made it "the hard way" are not amused.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-01-10 09:18|| 2018-01-10 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 It was that whiteness that put a man on the moon, AC in your house and your iPhone in your pocket.

Don't like it? Go to fucking Africa and bask in their accomplishments.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-01-10 10:17|| 2018-01-10 10:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't that another way of saying blacks are inferior? WTF has happened?

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-01-10 12:14|| 2018-01-10 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Professor appears to be a white woman. Straight up racism, or the soft-racism of low expectations. I guess we can only tell by her voting record.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-01-10 12:15|| 2018-01-10 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 The classic science fiction story by H. Beam Piper Omnilingual(1957) has the humans investigating an alien city. The Rosetta Stone they use to understand is science, the Universal Language, a concept that this person does not grasp.

Posted by magpie 2018-01-10 12:51|| 2018-01-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#11 So pathetic and sad. MLK is spinning in his grave right now.

Posted by Eltoroverde 2018-01-10 13:02|| 2018-01-10 13:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Her research interests include probabilistic thinking, teacher education, diversity and equity in mathematics education, and the use of real-world urban contexts in the teaching of mathematics. In 2002-03, Rubel was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as part of the Diversity in Mathematics Education Center for Learning and Teaching.

She pretty much checked all the usual boxes, except "Competent"

Posted by Frank G 2018-01-10 13:56|| 2018-01-10 13:56|| Front Page Top

#13 The real issue purposely ignored by the tenured liberal university endoctrination professors is that their public school liberal counterparts do a crappy job of teaching.

Posted by Bill Cleretle2363 2018-01-10 14:22|| 2018-01-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

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