Math association says math 'inherently carries human biases,' citing Critical Race Theory
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And too much math creates bloviating professors who want to be important to the extent so much carbon gasses are released as they talk, walk and sit that they can actually state with certainty that math creates manmade climate change.
Well, Pedes, it looks like we will have to warn our children about avoiding bridges, overpasses, and the like in the future.
It’s racist because blacks can’t math. Sorry if the truth hurts but facts are facts.
Looks more like direct action, to me. Math association infiltrated by people with zero qualificatons?
Compare this,
“Statements like ‘2+2 = 4’ are abstractions. What that means is they’re generalizations of ‘something.’ You should always think of these statements as associated with an underlying reality,” one Harvard researcher wrote.
to this (wikipedia),
Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying structures, patterns or properties of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications...
How do you get the idea completely backwards, without doing it on purpose?
Exactly which numbers are racist? Which equations favor a racist result?
This is total absurdity.
I think it's a fundraising attempt on the part of the MAA. Like so many 501c3's they create new revenue streams, siphon off 80%, then give the crumbs away.
Cause du jour.