printThe problem with math is that it can be—how shall we put it?—mean to certain minorities. The problem with conservatives? They run from such racial realities.
Math as racist is not a new angle in the war for egalitarianism in aptitude.
Some people can do math well; others less so. Still others not at all. There are aggregate discrepancies between the sexes and between the races in the facility with mathematics.
(There has been a link to the work of La Griffe du Lion, on the ilanamercer.com Resources page (Junk Science category), since the website’s inception. His explosive work was allowed back then.)
These days, however, kids are being taught that, given enough Kale, care and instruction from formative figures—everyone has a chance at achieving a similar aptitude. “You can do anything you put your mind to,” goes the parental and pedagogic refrain.
No wonder anger rises among the less proficient when reality bites and puts the lie to the fiction of an egalitarian distribution of talent.
If some fail miserably in certain fields, why, the deficit is said to be not in the child but in the “system,” the teacher, the topic, or the particular discipline.
And if patterns of failure correlate with racial groupings; voila! It’s systemic. See, “‘Systemic Racism’ Or Systemic Rubbish?” Video included (for those who, unlike me, do not prefer text).
Anti-white activists—let us call them what they are, please—are now claiming math is a white supremacist discipline, not least because it is also an objective science with right or wrong answers. There is no relativism to it; no, “Hey Johnny, that’s an interesting answer, why don’t you try that new equation in the next bridge you design?”
Trust conservatives to never cop to the fact that complex math was the invention of Westerners. Oh, no!
As is the wont of conservatives, they apologize for any white involvement in such greatness as is math.
Tucker Carlson’s guest takes the tired conservative tack. Denounce and deprecate Western achievement:
“Math is not a white discipline, how absurd,” says Tucker’s guest.
Okay, Miss obsequious.
More advanced mathematics can be traced to ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago. Ancient mathematician Pythagoras had questions about the sides of a right triangle. His questioning, research, and testing led to a basic understanding of triangles we still study today, known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
Most experts agree that it was around this time (2,500 years ago) in ancient Greece that mathematics first became an organized science.
If it’s me, I’m owning it.
Beginning in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, with Greek mathematics the Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics as a subject in its own right. Around 300 BC, Euclid introduced the axiomatic method still used in mathematics today, consisting of definition, axiom, theorem, and proof.
Next, Miss Millennial parrots the exhausted cliche about “the soft bigotry of lowered expectations,” namely the “myth” that students of color can’t achieve to standards, and therefore the standards must be lowered.
Both host and guest feel safe in their sanctimony, ignoring the well-established and enduring “racial achievement gap in the United States” in mathematics.
UPDATED (2/22): NTSB, so nerdy and white.
Fan-blade failure in #United328 flight will be solved by… @NTSB, the only gov. department where studious, nerdy engineers, mostly #white men, are allowed do their thing: solve complex problems.
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— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) February 22, 2021
Bach is racist. Shakespeare is racist. Math is racist. The anti-Whiteism is nauseating, and you’re 100% correct – Conservative commentators are afraid to say the word “White.” They must think their skin is going to blister or something.