Now Math is racist and promotes white privilege.

[Sparko]

White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says

[TheWall]

Because solving for X makes me so privileged.

[mossrose]

And here I thought math was simply from the devil.

[Sparko]

I thought Math was "Asian Privilege" since Asian math geniuses are the "stereotype"

[Mountain Man]

She's basically saying that we should deny historical truth simply she doesn't like the skin color of people who made certain discoveries. That's as nutty as insisting that the world is flat.

[seer]

A math education professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege.

I don't know why you even posted it, it is so self evidently true that it can't be argued against!

[Sparko]

She is hispanic but just look at her! You know there was a milkman in the woodpile somewhere! White privilege!

[mikewhitney]

Jaime Escalante will have to denounce his contribution to the problem.

He is the teacher who led his inner city students to succeed on the AP calculus test.

[One Bad Pig]

We need our resident mathemagician to weigh in on this.

[Sparko]

We need our resident mathemagician to weigh in on this.

Is he or she white?

[Mountain Man]

She is hispanic...

*ahem* That's white Hispanic, mister.

[Sparko]

*ahem* That's white Hispanic, mister.

well obviously! She is math professor after all! She has to have privilege!

[Sparko]

hey weren't our numbers invented by arabs? Math can't be white privilege! It's arab!

[Zymologist]

hey weren't our numbers invented by arabs? Math can't be white privilege! It's arab!

White arabs, duh

[Sparko]

White arabs, duh

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