This pure Orwellian-based politics. This has nothing to do with science, nor we want it to be because our lives depend on it. You do not want to get a medication which’s dosage has been calculated by Social Justice, nor you want to drive over a bridge or be in a building with an engineering calculated according to the social rules according to racial equality.
They get show their final colors in this “statement from the MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics”
Critical race theory, referenced in recent Executive statements by the President of the United States, is an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades of scholarship. It is misguided, at best, to reduce this theory to the race-blaming of white people and to define it and the discussion of systemic racism as a “divisive concept.” Furthermore, banning training utilizing this scholarship to raise consciousness, from federal and federal contractor workplaces, is an encroachment on science and the academy. At the first presidential debate this year, President Trump’s refusal to disavow white nationalism and his encouragement of groups that the FBI has identified as the greatest threats of domestic terrorism, only serves to reinforce the sense that his administration seeks to reverse decades of progress on civil rights for all citizens.
ANTI-SCIENCE POLICY AND THE CENSURE OF DISCOURSE ON RACE AND RACISM
I have no idea what kind of asinine organization is this, but sure as hell it is not about mathematics but the application of less than exact political fashion to a field of science that applies itself equally to everybody. Going back to 2+2, the result is the same if you are a Jew, Black, White, Hispanic, Muslim, Lesbian or a Himalayan penguin. To say that math is different and wrong because somehow it is being taught by white people is just more of the galloping stupidity we are experiencing and that needs to stop.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and
ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O’Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows
1984 – George Orwell
The freedom to say 2+2=4, the freedom to say the most basic and egalitarian mathematical equation, known by every soul in the world is in danger because some “revolutionaries” have deemed it socially unjust.
Tell me again we are not at war.
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