The Wrong Path to Justice

For John, BLUF:  The idea that Caucasian success in America was built solely on slavery (the 1619 thesis) will result in a very bad outcome for everyone.  We all need to learn about hard work and sharing the wealth.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Math Professor:  The '2+2=4 Trope ... Reeks of White Supremacist Patriarchy'

From Pajama Media, by Mr Tyler O'Neil, 13 August 2020.

Here is the lede plus three:

In the name of social justice, many Marxists push a kind of absurd brainwashing that denies basic rationality.  This month, a math professor denounced the “MYTH” that math is objective.  She said the “math is neutral because 2 + 2 = 4” trope “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.”  Ironically, associating mathematics and basic knowledge with white men actually undermines Marxists’ ostensible goal of empowering women and people of color.

Laurie Rubel, a mathematics education professor at New York’s Brooklyn College, tweeted, “the idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH.”

Rubel added, “along with the ‘of course math is neutral because 2 + 2 = 4’ trope are the related (and creepy) ‘math is pure’ and ‘protect math.'”  She claimed this kind of statement “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.”

“i’d [sic] rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals),” the professor added.

The people pontificating about systemic racism seem to be be clueless about actually fixing it.  Some police departments have problems.  Hoever, below that is education.  In Massachusetts the MCAS scores tell the story.  A lot of kids go out into the real high stakes test, life, and with low MCAS scores.  But, more fundamental is the damage we have done to the nuclear family, and in particular by our welfare system.  I want to fix the problem, but there are a lot of unserious people who just wish to rant.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff