Algebra and geometry perpetuate white privilege

[posic]

A math education professor at the University of Illinois argued in a newly published book that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White,” Gutierrez argued -- https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10005

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[a-konst.livejournal.com]

Банальность, конечно, и уже много лет это говорят, но еще раз можно сказать - чем дальше, тем больше это напоминает СССР.

[posic.livejournal.com]

Потому, что леваки -- они и есть леваки. Что отечественные, что зарубежные, что западные, что восточные. Вся-то разница между меньшевиками и большевиками (разными фракциями одной и той же социал-демократической партии). Она -- есть, конечно, эта разница -- но она не очень велика, и лежит скорее в плоскости тактики-стратегии, чем конечных целей. В отдельно взятой стране не вышло -- попробуем во всем мире; большой скачок не удался -- попробуем маленькими шажками. Не за одну смену поколений произведем "нового человека", а за несколько, и т.д.

[(Anonymous)]

(aka) High intelligence is the new racism..

[posic.livejournal.com]

The intelligence differential was also the key reason behind the old racism's emergence and existence (in the forms in which it emerged and existed). All this present-day blah-blah-blah about racism is just so much wishful thinking -- an invitation to close one's eyes and pretend that the reality of human differences does not exist.

But it is entertaining (also telling) to observe how they oscillate between the talk about "the race being only skin-deep" and attempting to conceptualize "Whiteness" (like in the expression "to be assimilated into whiteness", etc.) Thinking about the future (low time preference) is a white trait (so to say that being concerned about one's future is preferable to being indifferent to it is now "racism"), to believe that hard work in benefical is "whiteness", mathematics is "whiteness", etc.

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