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WestlinnDuck
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First, more fake news from the NYT on the killing of the Capitol police officer with a fire extinguisher. Supposedly the finest journalistic job in print media in the world and all you get is intellectual infantilism. Then this -
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/why-math-is-racist.php
WHY MATH IS RACIST
This is actually a claim that is being made often these days: the sciences in general, and math in particular, are racist. The latest comes from Oregon:
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” [geezus] and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer. [What is the black focus?}
An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course,” which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for “dismantling racism in mathematics.”
How can mathematics possibly be racist?
Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways “white supremacy culture” allegedly “infiltrates math classrooms.” Those include “the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer,” students being “required to ‘show their work,'” and other alleged manifestations.
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the document for the “Equitable Math” toolkit reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.” [2 + 2 = 5]
I think that failing to do one’s homework and study for tests is racist. Of course, we all know what groups such attacks on “objectivity” and “getting the right answer” are intended to benefit:
ODE Communications Director Marc Siegel also defended the “Equitable Math” educational program, saying it “helps educators learn key tools for engagement, develop strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, and join communities of practice.” [Marc Siegel is worth every dollar he is paid if his annual salary was $0.00]
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/why-math-is-racist.php
WHY MATH IS RACIST
This is actually a claim that is being made often these days: the sciences in general, and math in particular, are racist. The latest comes from Oregon:
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” [geezus] and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer. [What is the black focus?}
An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course,” which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for “dismantling racism in mathematics.”
How can mathematics possibly be racist?
Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways “white supremacy culture” allegedly “infiltrates math classrooms.” Those include “the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer,” students being “required to ‘show their work,'” and other alleged manifestations.
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the document for the “Equitable Math” toolkit reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.” [2 + 2 = 5]
I think that failing to do one’s homework and study for tests is racist. Of course, we all know what groups such attacks on “objectivity” and “getting the right answer” are intended to benefit:
ODE Communications Director Marc Siegel also defended the “Equitable Math” educational program, saying it “helps educators learn key tools for engagement, develop strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, and join communities of practice.” [Marc Siegel is worth every dollar he is paid if his annual salary was $0.00]
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Maybe a woke only go-pass to travel across the don't-show-your-work structures.
"yeah, that bridge collapsed and killed fifty non-racists but they died totally woke".
Absolutely could never happen. I'm guessing that less than 50 could be killed or more than 50. But exactly 50? Of course 49 killed is exactly 50 in woke math if you "feel" it is. So, I guess point conceded.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/22/design-error-blamed-florida-international-university-pedestrian-bridge-collapse/2449316001/
A doomed design was the "probable cause" of the horrific collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Miami last year that killed six people and injured 10, the National Transportation Safety Board found Tuesday.
The 174-foot-bridge section, designed to connect Florida International University with the city of Sweetwater, was still under construction on March 15, 2018, when it crashed to the road below. Eight vehicles were crushed, seven of which were occupied.
A peer review that failed to detect the calculation errors by designer FIGG Bridge Engineers – and an engineer's failure to recognize the importance of cracking before the collapse – contributed to the tragedy, the board said.
"FIGG Bridge Engineers severely underestimated the demand on the bridge, significantly overestimated the bridge’s capacity ... among other calculation errors," NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said. "But another structure failed in this accident, the structure of public safety oversight."
NTSB staffer Dan Walsh said the construction was "high-risk" because of the complex design of the bridge. But he added that the school was overseeing the project, and the state Transportation Department was not required to have an inspector on site.
Who sits in a room and comes up with this shit?
Couldn’t be me....
Most dems have never met a conservative black or brown person in their lives, and have a huge fucking rude awakening coming.
'Twill be Delicious to Witness.
And fleeing to the right.
Dems don't even think about that. They just use the brown bag test.