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2021-04-19 -Great Cultural Revolution

Woke Math And The Intentional Destruction Of Free, Independent Thought

Legal Insurrection via Instapundit
There are features of American wokeness that make me gasp that socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. The ongoing effort to transform mathematics education into a crypto-Marxist indoctrination vehicle seems like the sign of things to come.

The California Department of Education recently drafted "Equitable Math" framework that, if implemented, will destroy what’s left of mathematics education in the Golden State. Along with the directive to privilege students on the basis of sex and skin color, the proposal essentially calls for the end of math. Fox News explains, "Another document calls for centering ’ethnomathematics,’ designing a ’culturally sustainable math space,’ and supporting students  ’to reclaim their mathematical ancestry.'"

...Mathematics developed over the course of centuries, and across many civilizations. Because it reveals eternal truths, it can be practiced by anyone. The purpose of a mathematics classroom is to teach students mathematics, not to confuse them with anthropological data relating to counting.

...The most revealing question, however, is not about the "oppressive mathematical practices," or even about doubting the centrality of being right. These discussion topics naturally flow out of lack of understanding of methodology revealed in the question "Why/how does data-driven processes prevent liberation?"

Math is not a data-driven, inductive field like the physical sciences where conclusions are reached by collecting and studying evidence. Math works by deduction, a top-down process of reaching conclusions that are true for all numbers. As I pointed out, because it’s deductive, math is "hermetically proofed from any ideological contamination. If physical sciences still depend on data-gathering, math does not. Feelings and subjective experiences absolutely cannot figure into mathematical inquiry."
We are back to the #1 liberal problem - refusing to admit that humans differ in innate ability.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-19 04:49|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 This is becoming one of those unfortunately overilluminated civilizations in Douglas Adams' funny stories; societies that end up destroying themselves out of a need to be correct.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-19 07:16|| 2021-04-19 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 We are back to the #1 liberal problem - refusing to admit that humans differ in innate ability.

I disagree. On the face of it, the implication in this policy is that minorities are unable to learn math and that is as racist as it gets. But I don't believe the socialists are so much racists as they are socialists. By that I mean I believe this is a cynical exploitation of race to bring about the destruction of the educational system. Then, when people are too poorly educated, too ignorant to know any better, a totalitarian police state can be implemented with a minimum of resistance. Americans will then become slaves to state-run globalist industries in much the same way as the Chinese people are today.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-19 15:32|| 2021-04-19 15:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, Abu, give me a name of an African-American (or an African-African) who has a math theorem named after him (or her).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-19 15:45|| 2021-04-19 15:45|| Front Page Top

#4 so 3 pee pee does not get confused during common core physical digit count exercises duh!

Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-04-19 16:19|| 2021-04-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

#5 The fact that I cannot do as you suggest, grom, is not proof that blacks and/or other minorities are unable to learn math. Nor does it mean that we should dismantle our educational system and thereby pave the way for socialism.

Read what I wrote: On the face of it, the implication in this policy is that minorities are unable to learn math...

IOW, on the face of it, the policy is an admission that minorities cannot do math.

If that is true, it would put you on the liberal side of the argument.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-19 16:33|| 2021-04-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Read what I wrote: On the face of it, the implication in this policy is that minorities are unable to learn math...

(a) Not all the minorities - just one.
(b) Concerning that specific minority - do you have an evidence to the contrary. In fact, not just in math - can you produce any evidence that two generation of (extreme) preference produced an intellectual flourishing among African-Americans (public sector jobs don't count)?

it would put you on the liberal side of the argument

I'm mortified.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-19 17:00|| 2021-04-19 17:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Given that African-Americans average about 50% Caucasian, the race argument is built on an unsteady foundation. Growing up in poverty and in a culture that decrees that studying hard and observing the bourgeois virtues is a race betrayal are much stronger handicaps, it seems to me. But here is a list of successful Black Republicans/Conservatives, like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, proving that every group of humans has its geniuses.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-19 20:31|| 2021-04-19 20:31|| Front Page Top

10:11 Difar Dave
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