We were amazed back in 2020 that someone on Twitter floated the idea that two plus two can equal five, and then a bunch of our intellectual superiors chimed in on how two plus two can actually equal five and that insisting that two plus two equals four is “whiteness.”
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This extends into Math. The woke argue objectivity and any either/or binary about truth (answers are either true or false) are part of white supremacy. Since math uses objectivity and thinks things can be either true or false, math is rooted in white supremacy. Take a look: pic.twitter.com/SkLmO6Ar8w— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 4, 2020
If you squint you’ll be able to see on that slide that some of the characteristics of white supremacy are “either/or thinking” and “objectivity.” (So is the scientific method.)
As Twitchy reported, some schools in Oregon were being informed that asking students in math class to “show their work” is “white supremacy.” Why? Because it requires students to worship the written word as well as exhibit paternalism, both of which are building blocks of white supremacy culture as well. Math class is sick with white supremacist thinking.
We haven’t brought gender into the equation, though, and Cathy Young tracked down a Joint Mathematics Meetings presentation called …
No, I don’t like “anti-woke” power grabs in the academy. But then there’s this stuff: presentation at premier academic gathering in math.https://t.co/YNySosyj0D
We can agree this sh*t needs to go, yes? Not censored by gov’t. Just treated as a science dept would treat astrology. pic.twitter.com/1nqcek5nSs— Cathy Young 🇺🇦 (@CathyYoung63) January 21, 2023
“Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice.”
(And please don’t ask if I’ve read it. Nope. I also don’t need to actually taste a pie made from cow excrement to know that it’s sh*t.)
— Cathy Young 🇺🇦 (@CathyYoung63) January 21, 2023
We have to credit the author of the presentation: Luis Antonio Leyva, who based it on his piece published in the American Educational Research Journal.
I don’t want this censored by the gov’t
I want the gov’t to stop funding it
They can do this kind of stuff all they want in a private institution that is ineligible for federal funds
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) January 21, 2023
This looks like a troll job from someone who wants to get out of math class requirements
— caroline mccarthy (@caro) January 21, 2023
It shouldn’t require legislation or policy, but should be mocked as ridiculous by people of all political perspectives
— Jonah Paquette (@doctorpaquette) January 21, 2023
The oldest trick in the “criticize academia” book is finding some ridiculous-sounding paper and making it sound like it is somehow representative of higher education.
— Steven L. Taylor (@drsltaylor) January 21, 2023
It got published in a peer-reviewed journal!
Yeah, anti-woke power grabs are a big thing in the academy 😂 The woke own the academy from top to bottom and this is their message.
— Trey Isaac (@seehearspeaknow) January 21, 2023
This is Luis Antonio Leyva. He presented the word salad. He’s also not tenured, but these days professors rarely are tenured. Most remain as associate professors.https://t.co/wMvXGlYGvZ
— @JötunnLoki 🇨🇦 (@JtunnLoki1) January 21, 2023
That it’s “woke” is one thing; that ‘s intellectually unsound gibberish regardless of whether it’s woke is another, and militates against its presentation as if it was a coherent academic assertion.
— Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) January 21, 2023
Color Justice. Snort.
— Heitor Lejeune (@HeitorLejeune) January 21, 2023
The only appropriate response at this point is to laugh these people out of the room. People just need the courage to do so.
— Back off, War Child 🇺🇦 (@silver_shots) January 21, 2023
Mad libs.
— Surreal Outrage ✌✌ (@GGreyscale) January 21, 2023
Stuff like this is so self-evidently stupid that I think most normal people will treat it as such, and this will take care of itself.
— Rafique Tucker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@RiffRaf979) January 21, 2023
Here’s his video biography from Vanderbilt:
And yet … this is an associate professor who published a paper on it in a peer-reviewed journal, which caught the eye of the person putting together the conference and giving it an airing. It’s just stupid.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 16, 2021
