Abolishing Maths for Diversity By Brian Simpson
The present attack upon mathematics is part of a general attack upon science that the Left has been conducting since the 1960s, but it has become more radical by the decade. And, it is no longer just something well-paid decedent Arts academics play with, but the sewer now flows into the public domain.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-03-21-oregon-trying-abolish-math-racist.html#
“The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) has launched a new instruction program for public school teachers throughout the state that claims the subject of mathematics is “racist” and promotes “white supremacy.”
The department sent out an online pamphlet called, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” that contains a section entitled, “Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.” In it, teachers are urged to reimagine the nature of math to make it more “inclusive” for black and brown people who apparently have trouble understanding it.
Students should not necessarily be told that technically wrong answers in math are existentially “wrong,” the pamphlet suggests. Claiming that an answer to a math question is either right or wrong is inherently “racist,” it goes on to conclude, instructing teachers about ways to abolish this type of “white supremacist” thinking from the classroom.
“While supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the pamphlet declares. “Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on [minority] students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.”
In order to effectively dismantle “white supremacist” ideas like there being right and wrong answers in math, Oregon teachers are being told to closely examine their “actions, beliefs, and values around teaching mathematics.” Anything that might be “offensive” to students needs to be abolished.
A typical math class involves spending way too much time trying to achieve right answers, which the pamphlet says is “racist.” Students having to individually come up with these right answers is also “racist,” as math should be a group effort, according to the ODE.
“Often the emphasis is placed on learning math in the ‘real world,’ as if our classrooms are not a part of the real world,” the pamphlet further explains. “This reinforces notions of either / or thinking because math is only seen as useful when it is in a particular context.”
“However, this can result in using mathematics to uphold capitalist and imperialist ways of being and understandings of the world.”
Bill Gates helped fund anti-math curriculum for Oregon
As is often the case, the ODE links math, ideas of right and wrong, and traditional education to capitalism and imperialism, both of which it says are evil and embody “white supremacy.”
To make math less “racist,” there needs to be an anomalous middle ground where students are free to imagine whatever answers they feel fit the equation. In an “equal” world, there is no such thing as right or wrong answers, even in math, the ODE contends.
To help black and brown students achieve the same level of educational success as white students, the ODE is encouraging teachers to consider how they can reinvent math to “help solve problems affecting students’ communities,” as well as recognize “the ways that communities of color engage in mathematics and problem solving in their everyday lives.”
Public school teachers in Oregon are also being told to “challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the course reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate [sic] objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”
Currently, the course is optional. Teachers who refuse it, however, could be subjected to “cancellation” and other forms of punishment designed to harm those who resist this attempted Marxist reprogramming.
“We cannot dismantle racism in a system that exploits people for private profit,” it contends. “If we want to dismantle racism, then we must build a movement for economic justice.”
As usual, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is behind the new curriculum, having given “generous financial support” to its creation.”
https://campusinsanity.com/2021-02-23-bill-gates-bankrolling-organization-saying-math-is-racist.html
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is bankrolling an activist educational group that believes math is racist and that arriving at an objective answer is an example of “white supremacy.”
Yes, really.
A conglomerate of 25 educational organizations called A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction asserts that asking students to find the correct answer is an “inherently racist practice.”
The organization’s website lists the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as its only donor.
“In fact, over the past decade, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded over of $140 million to a variety of groups associated with Pathway. Their “antiracist resources” are at the epicenter of a new training course for teachers offered by the Oregon Department of Education throughout the state,” reports National File.
“Three of the most prominent organizations receiving grant money from the Gates’ are The Education Trust, Teach Plus, and WestEd, all non-profit 501c organizations.”
A guidebook for teachers produced by Pathway called ‘Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction’ ludicrously claims that mathematics “is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”
Teachers are instructed to blame non-white students getting answers wrong on “white supremacist practices,” which are truly to blame for the “underachievement” of minorities.
As we have previously highlighted, following on from universities, schools have now become breeding grounds for this kind of intersectional insanity.
Earlier this week, we reported on how the principal of East Side Community School in New York sent white parents a manifesto that calls on them to become “white traitors” and advocate for full “white abolition.”
Last year, we revealed how children at an elementary school in Virginia are being taught that traits such as “objectivity” and “perfectionism” are ‘racist’ characteristics of “white supremacy.”
Meanwhile, school districts across America are eliminating grading standards in order to “combat racism”.
The move was announced in San Diego after it was revealed that just 7% of D or F grades are handed out to white students, while 23% went to Native Americans, 23% of failing grades went to Hispanics and 20% went to black students.”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-03-21-woke-culture-wars-corporate-kpmg-fired.html#
“The head of accounting giant KPMG’s British division has been fired from his position after making a politically incorrect comment about “unconscious bias training.”
During a Zoom call, KPMG United Kingdom Chairman Bill Michael scoffed at the concept, calling it “complete crap.” He added that “after every single unconscious bias training [session] that’s ever been done, nothing’s ever improved.”
Unconscious bias training, in case you are unfamiliar with the term, is a reeducation effort that seeks to brainwash White employees into believing that they are inherently prejudiced against non-Whites. It is becoming a mainstay at many large corporations.
Michael also took aim at the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), claiming his company’s staff has been using it to play “the role of the victim.” They work in a “very lucky sector,” he added, saying they should “take control” of their lives rather than “sit there and moan” about the “pandemic.”
Hearing this, several disgruntled employees filed a complaint against Michael, prompting KPMG to launch an investigation into his comments. He initially stood aside to await the results, but has since chosen to resign with claims that his position is now “untenable.”
“So ends his 30-year tenure at the company,” reported spiked. “But what Michael said was correct. Unconscious-bias training is complete crap.”
“These training sessions treat an absurd ideological claim – that we are all secretly racist, without even realizing it – as fact. They force people to admit to non-existent prejudices. They are not worth anyone’s time.”
For the record, Michael also stated during the Zoom call that “there’s a lot … more generally, to change” at KPMG. He does not, however, believe that unconscious bias training is the way to go.
“That should not be a controversial opinion,” spiked further reported. “But such nuances have got lost in the clamour for him to be sacked.”
“The bean counters at KPMG clearly see themselves as social-justice advocates. It seems the Great Awokening has captured the corporate sector.”
Men are no longer allowed to be men in the new world order
Michael had been in charge of KPMG in the U.K. since 2017. He made the “offensive” comments during a virtual town hall meeting with members of the financial firm’s consulting team.
The 52-year-old Australian later issued an apology claiming he regrets the comments he made. It would appear, though, that Michael was bullied into resigning, which is basically a firing.
“I love the firm and I am truly sorry that my words have caused hurt among my colleagues and for the impact the events of this week have had on them,” Michael stated.
“In light of that, I regard my position as untenable and so I have decided to leave the firm. It has been a privilege to have acted as chair of KPMG. I feel hugely proud of all our people and the things they have achieved, particularly during these very challenging times.”
In other words, Michael said it like it is, like any good man would do, which triggered the snowflakes at his former company into total hysteria. He then was beaten into submission, issued an apology, and quit.
This is “cancel culture” at its finest, all wrapped up in a tidy bow of “decency” that puts the “feelings” of the weak above difficult truths. No longer is anyone allowed to make anyone else feel uncomfortable, even though the things that make some people feel uncomfortable are constantly changing.
As this writer reported last summer, even the board game industry has succumbed to cancel culture as Scrabble was caught banning certain words that some people might find “offensive.”
Of course, it will get much, much worse before it gets better. “Better,” could well be a new Dark Age of blood and steel.
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