I covered the idea that the woke politically correct were rejecting mathematical objectivity, in arithmetic truths such as 2 + 2 = 4, that 2+ 2 could equal 5. Here are some more thoughts on this, with two bogus, but delightful “proofs” and the re-definition idea that I discussed.
  https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-make-2+2-5-1?utm_source=amerika.org%22

Mayur Goswami
Answered August 8, 2019

     It is the typical piece we see nowadays, by the predictable types who write this stuff. Is human civilisation doomed because people are “idiots”? A good question, but the spin given to this question by writer Umair Haque is that the Anglo nations, and parts of Eastern Europe with nationalist governments are idiots, who face destruction because only globalism, cosmopolitanism, mass migration, and all the rest of the liberal bs can save humanity.
  https://eand.co/america-and-the-axis-of-idiots-25a86ed4a421

     Really? Let’s just take climate change and look at it from his Left perspective. Can the reader bear with me on this hypothetical exercise? Well, according to his world view, endorsed by the sacred IPCC, we now have ten years, no nine, to avert a climate catastrophe. He mentions that Western Europe has reduced carbon emissions, but it accepted by scientists from his side, that this mammoth effort is too little to achieve what is required, according to the Paris Accord. No country is doing what it should. So, by Haque’s own perspective, all nations are idiots, and all are pushing us rapidly towards the final apocalypse. Now we do not believe this, but he and his liberal tribe do, so it is a big problem, Mr Liberal “Smarty” pants.

     As Christianity is hosed down by the elites, as Islam is slowly being adopted as the religion of the Left, and globalists, there are other competing religious cults emerging from the Left, with Black Lives Matter as one candidate. Witness scenes a few weeks back of Whites on bended knees, worshipping Blacks. But is not just us proclaiming that BLM is a religious cult for witless whites:
  https://spectator.us/black-lives-matter-religion-woke-white-people/?fbclid=IwAR3U8I066QUEknoo1iO07sn-KRso5AgjjL6wIhLnno2jeDxAS-cRL7hQGf4

“The most memorable footage of the Black Lives Matter protests, and perhaps the creepiest, doesn’t capture any acts of violence, any looting, any chanting of slogans or — so far as I can make out — any black faces. Instead, we see hundreds of mostly young people sitting in the parking lot of a public library in Bethesda, Maryland, raising both pasty-white arms in a gesture that suggests both surrender and worship. An invisible speaker is reciting a list of promises that the crowd repeats. This is what we hear:

     The movement is on for universal compulsory vaccination, ultimately, if they start by just high-pressure sales at first. We will see a vax campaign like nothing ever before seen, as the well-oiled machine goes into over-drive:
  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/13/coronavirus-vaccination-campaign.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20200813Z2&mid=DM621170&rid=938919845

“By the looks of it, we are about to face one of the most aggressive vaccine campaigns ever created. According to Reuters, the U.S. government is planning to launch an "overwhelming" COVID-19 vaccine campaign come November, provided the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives one or more vaccine candidates the green light. Considering former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb is now on Pfizer's board of directors, and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is one of the lead candidates, jaded minds might assume the FDA isn't going to put up any significant roadblocks. According to Reuters, the COVID-19 vaccine campaign "will likely be compressed into a short period of time, around four to six weeks, to eliminate any lag between when Americans are alerted to the vaccine and then they can get vaccinated." An unnamed "senior White House administration official" is quoted saying: "The fine line we are walking is getting the American people very excited about vaccines and missing expectations versus having a bunch of vaccines in the warehouse and not as many people want to get it. You may not hear a lot about promoting vaccines over the airwaves in August and September but you'll be overwhelmed by it come November." It's still unclear exactly when a vaccine will be available, but it could be as early as October, or as late as January 2021. According to the administration official, the advertising campaign for the vaccine will be tailored to specific subsets of the population, depending on the people the vaccine is likely to benefit the most. Such details are expected to be teased out during ongoing clinical trials.

     I have been reporting on US stories that show the future under majority non-white multicultural diversity, as the US is ahead of the same dangerous curve that Whites in Africa, especially South Africa have already embarked on. Thus, the crazed mobs in Seattle are coming out to the suburbs, with home stealing on their minds:
  https://www.theblaze.com/news/violent-group-of-seattle-rioters-scream-at-strangers-give-up-your-house-give-black-people-back-their-homes?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202020-08-13&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM%20-%20last%20270%20days

“An unruly group of Seattle protesters converged on a residential neighborhood earlier this week, demanding that the white people inside the homes give up their residences to people of color. The march was caught on video, which has since gone viral on the internet. What are the details? According to Twitter user Kitty Shackleford, the group — made up of about 50 demonstrators — marched down the streets of the neighborhood chanting, "Black people used to live here!" One man can be heard telling residents, "Hey guys, do you know that you are living in a historically black neighborhood right now? Do you know that before your white ass came here this was all black people? Do you know that people like you came in here and basically bought all the land from the black people less than what it was worth, kicked them out so you could live here? Do you know that? 'Cause if you don't, now you f***ing do, so do something about it." The unnamed male demonstrator added, "How do you plan to fix it because you are living on black people's land right now. ... I mean, native land, but black people lived here, too." A female leader in the group shouted, "Open your wallet!" and proceeded to demand that the residents give up their homes. "[G]ive up your house!" she insisted. "Give black people back their homes! You're sitting there comfortably — comfortable as f*** as if they didn't help gentrify this neighborhood! I used to live in this neighborhood, and my family was pushed out, and you're sitting up there having a good time with your other white friends." The male continued, "Let's not act like you just are oblivious to this s*** because you knew about it all along, and you were OK with it. But guess what, we're not, and we're bringing it to your front f***ing door so what the f*** do you plan to do about it?" "How do you plan to re-gentrify a black neighborhood that you obviously are for gentrifying because you live here now?" the male incoherently continued.

     While we are concerned about the Great Replacement, there is also a way of looking at this from the perspective of Blacks, who may also face decline. Here’s how:
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/why-blm-now/

“Blacks are beginning to politically and socially matter less than they did 20 years ago. Saying such a thing is !HERESY! Amerika’s most bestest President evah, King Obama The Wise and Sagacious, was Black (kinda sorta’ on Election Day). Does everyone remember how much more holy and beatific Amerika became the day he was anointed into office? Fair enough, me neither. But the Census tells us Whitey is dying off. Shouldn’t the average Black be out on the town ordering a Singapore Sling? I mean they can stick it to The Man who is too old and frail to successfully manuever his walker and escape. A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows America’s population is 60.1 percent white, the lowest level ever recorded. Among those under 16 years of age, fewer than half are white, a sign that white Americans are having fewer children and doing so later in life. “The nation is becoming more diverse, especially among the young,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Amerika is now more !DIVERSE! Happy Juneteenth. At least until you read the fine print. Asian Americans represented the fastest-growing segment of the population over the last decade. The number of Asian Americans in the United States grew to 22.8 million, a 29 percent increase. The number of people of Hispanic descent grew by 10 million, or 20 percent over the last decade. The median age among Hispanics is 29.8, though that number has risen two years over the last decade, a sign that fertility rates are slowing across racial and ethnic lines. Bi- and multiracial Americans are the youngest cohort, with a median age of just 21 years old.

     Welcome to the brave new world of vaccinations, or is it the biochemical invasion of the person? Will there be high tech nanobots in the vaccine turning us into quasi-zombies? I do not know, but do not want to find out the hard way. Here are some videos to make you anxious too:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MiKUzxMfz4&feature=youtu.be
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksEVaO806Oo&feature=youtu.be

     Is termination, as Mike Adams always argues, on the agenda? Certainly, liberal freedoms have been abolished due to the “bug,” and it happened quickly, with little protests compared to a Black man dying of a drug over-dose.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlu21LnvD-s&feature=youtu.be
  https://www.larryhannigan.com.au/2020-08-07th-my-opinion-fake-pandemic-a-trial-run-or/
  https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/08/melbourne-nwo-police-state.html

     The young are turning to socialism in droves. It is a problem if they do not come out of this dementia quick.
  https://medium.com/@micbusler/young-americans-ignorance-results-in-them-favoring-socialism-3cf3906bca10

“According to a Gallup poll conducted last year, nearly 50% of young adults have a positive view of Socialism. This contrasts with 34% of Generation Xers and less than 30% of baby boomers. Maybe older Americans know something that younger Americans simply do not know. The poll also found that while 50% of young adults view Capitalism favorably, that figure is down from 66% in 2010. What happened in the last decade to sway the youth? It appears that the combination of a stagnant economy and ignorance of basic principles are what led the youth to view socialism more favourably and capitalism less favourably. Older and wiser Americans know more about the workings of Capitalism and its overall positive outcomes in the real world.”

     This is a good video, which says all we have said, but by leading British comedian Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean), defending free speech. What is interesting is that this was said in 2012, but it is as if it was said yesterday, or tomorrow. He did a comedy sketch years ago mentioned in the title, which was a satire of speech suppression, and now what was comedy is reality.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU&feature=youtu.be

     Here is a little sad saga, about some good people in Greece who believed the myths of migration and came to regret it, seeing the illegals as abusing their good hearts. Yes, no good deed goes unpunished:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_good_deed_goes_unpunished
  https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/07/31/locals-in-lesvos-protest-against-ngos-and-illegal-immigrants/

“Women in Lesvos protested against the NGO’s and illegal immigrants that have significantly changed life on the island since 2015. “We are here for our children and for our homes,” said women who gathered on Monday afternoon at the Petra-Molyvos-Anaxos intersection to protest illegal immigration and its effects on the region. The women of the area drafted a protest resolution in which they expressed their opposition to the existence of NGO’s who profit off the flow of illegal migration into Greece at the expense of locals on the island, who suffer from astronomically increased criminality on the island. “They took advantage of our humanity and tolerance,” said a protester, remembering that the people of Lesvos were once nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for their role in assisting illegal immigrants since 2015. At the same time, it was stressed that this whole issue had a direct impact on the work of locals, which has been irreparably affected. During the peaceful protest, mothers explained that their children are emigrating from the island because they say they no longer have a future in this place. Many have seen their homes, farms and churches completely destroyed by the thousands of illegal immigrants roaming freely. Although the illegal immigrants are at fault, many of the locals blame the actions of the NGOs, which exploit instead of helping. The locals who protested, demanded the removal of the NGOs from the island and for the state to take over the management of the issue.”

     Mathematics, beyond the counting dollars level, is a game with symbols, so it is possible to refer to different number systems where 2 + 2 does equal 5. But “5” is redefined and is not what you would expect. Indeed, infinity can be added to the real numbers, in the extended real number system, which is a no-no for high school maths, but is used in measurement theory and advanced Lebesque integration. But, Leftist do not go to this level; instead:
  https://www.thecollegefix.com/some-critical-theory-scholars-argue-22-can-sometimes-equal-5/

“Some professors and activists argue 2+2 can sometimes equal 5, a controversial claim recently brought to light in a series of tweets that has sparked a robust debate among education watchdogs and others. The Twitter account Wokal Distance on Aug. 3 highlighted several screenshots amassed on the subject, noting: “This is a screenshot of people saying 2+2=5 … Among them are teachers, educators, and professors who plan on teaching this stuff to your children. So, let’s talk about what’s going on here, why they’re doing this, and how we can stop it.” In a message to The College Fix, the person running the Wokal Distance account declined to provide their identity or weigh in further on their thread, saying they would like their Twitter feed and profile to speak for itself. But the account clarifies that what the scholars are arguing is not that 2+2 does not equal 4, but rather “2+2 can sometimes equal 5.” The fundamental basis of the argument is that there is no universal answer to the math problem 2+2 that is true in all cases; they are not falsifying 2+2=4, they are deconstructing it, Wokal Distance argues. The Wokal Distance account goes on to explain that this deconstruction is effectively a destabilization of meaning. Under this so-called woke math, “2+2=5” because when a meaning is not fixed, lucid, and defined, that meaning can be redefined and warped. With this distortion, people can supposedly jump to any conclusion they desire.”    

     At long last, a posthumous VC for Teddy Sheean, a 19-year-old sailor who went down with the ship fighting dramatic last stand:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sheean

“Edward "Teddy" Sheean (28 December 1923-1 December 1942) was a sailor in the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. Born in Tasmania, Sheean was employed as a farm labourer when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve in April 1941. Following training at HMAS Derwent and the Flinders Naval Depot, he was posted to Sydney, where he joined the newly commissioned corvette HMAS Armidale in June 1942. Sheean served aboard Armidale as she initially took part in escort duties along the eastern Australian coast and in New Guinea waters, before he transferred with the ship to Darwin in October, where Armidale was given the task of assisting Australian operations in Timor. On 29 November 1942, Armidale set out for an operation to Betano, Timor, along with HMAS Castlemaine. The two ships were attacked by Japanese aircraft along the way, and were subsequently late in arriving at their destination, missing a planned rendezvous with HMAS Kuru. While returning to Darwin, the pair encountered Kuru south of Betano and it was decided by Castlemaine's commanding officer—as the senior officer—that Armidale and Kuru should make for Betano. The two ships took different routes to Betano, during which both vessels came under aerial assault. During a subsequent confrontation with thirteen Japanese aircraft on 1 December, Armidale was struck by two torpedoes and a bomb, and began to sink; the order to abandon ship was given. After helping to free a life-raft, Sheean was wounded by two bullets. He made his way to the aft Oerlikon 20 mm cannon and began to fire on the Japanese aircraft to protect those in the water. Sheean managed to shoot down one of the Japanese bombers, but was killed when Armidale sank. Many of the survivors credited their lives to Sheean and he was posthumously mentioned in despatches. In 1999, the submarine HMAS Sheean was named in his honour, and efforts have been made to have Sheean awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia. On 10 August 2020, Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison recommended to the Queen that Sheean posthumously be awarded the Victoria Cross.”

     The Hong Kong exodus will lead to the West importing a new overclass, to further compete for jobs at the upper levels. Since our local elites support mass migration, this is an example of being hoisted by their own petard.
  https://vdare.com/articles/there-s-a-word-for-boris-johnson-s-proposal-to-swamp-u-k-with-chinese-treason

“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that Hong Kongers eligible for a British National (Overseas) [BNO] passport—i.e. anyone born before 1997, when China took over Hong Kong—will soon be able to enter Britain without a visa if China officially implements its recently-passed Hong Kong security Law. They will have the right to live and work in the U.K. for five years, despite the current six-month limit, and apply for U.K. citizenship 12 months after that [UK extends immigration rights for 3M eligible Hong Kongers, by Sylvia Hui, AP, July 1, 2020]. In other words, Britons already afflicted by “Asian” grooming gangs and other Third World immigrants must now prepare for the possibility that millions of Hong Kongers will rush in. There is a word for what Johnson is doing: treason. Changing the terms on which BNO holders are allowed into the UK would require legislation. But it’s wildly improbable that Parliament would block such a change. Johnson has a large majority, and the opposition parties would never vote against Electing A New People. Johnson’s rash vow has met with precious little condemnation from the British Main Stream Media and politicians, which tells you how strong a grip Political Correctness has on British elites.

     Hard Coviddy times are upon us. Channel 10 is feeling the pinch and is letting go of super-fantastic Kerri-Anne Kennerley, whom I have had a crush on for about 70 years, if that is legal.
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/network-ten-axing-stars-kerrianne-kennerley-natarsha-belling-and-weatherman-tim-bailey-in-sweeping-news-weather-changes/news-story/6fc40762802e4f9c1af0993f04cd8fcf?utm_source=TheAustralian&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=TABreakingNews&net_sub_id=311202432&type=curated&position=1&overallPos=1&utm_source=TheAustralian&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=TA_BREAKING_CUR_01&utm_content=311202432

     And they do this to this shining example of health and fitness for ageing women:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3429981/Kerri-Anne-Kennerley-62-goes-braless-flaunts-trim-figure-backless-mini-dress.html

     What do the rich do with their money, besides use it to make more money, and life miserable for us? Why, if you are the world’s richest woman you support the most woke politically correct causes around. Like Jeff Bezos ex-wife, for example.
  https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/08/jeff-bezos-ex-wife-funding-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield/

“It's the ultimate feminist story. Your ridiculously wealthy husband cheats on you, you divorce him, become insanely rich, and give the money away to racial supremacists. Here's McKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, with the inevitable Medium post about how much money she's giving to BLM. But first, a lecture. “Opportunities that flowed from the mere chance of skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or zip code may have yielded resources that can be powerful levers for change... I began work to complete my pledge with the belief that my life had yielded two assets that could be of particular value to others: the money these systems helped deliver to me...” Lady, the money was delivered to you because you married an investment guy who went on to found a dot com monster that consumed the retail sector, destroying numerous small businesses. And you're using the money to fund lefty racists, instead of, say, the many businesses that went under to make you that money. But, in all fairness, Bezos left McKenzie for Lauren Sanchez, a "person of color" in the current formula. So, McKenzie already traded in her position to that of a person of color. Now she's giving away a ton of money to a bunch of racist hate groups, including the Movement for Black Lives, an anti-semitic BLM group that supports BDS.

     First McDonalds (US):
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/06/29/mcdonalds-changes-social-media-profile-name-to-amplifying-black-voices/

“McDonald’s has changed its Twitter display name to “Amplifying Black Voices,” adding a profile banner that lists Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd as victims of “racism” and “systemic oppression.” The brand’s Twitter banner reads: Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Alton Sterling. Botham Jean. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. He was one of us. She was one of us. They were all one of us. We seem them in our customers. We see them in our crew members. We see them in our franchisees. And this is why the entire McDonald’s family grieves. It’s why we stand for them and any other victims of systemic oppression and violence. Today with stand with Black communities across America. Which is why we’re donating to the National Urban League and the NAACP. We do not tolerate inequity, injustice, or racism. “Black trans women have a very simple message: stop killing us,” the international corporation relayed in a video created by Imara Jones, a fellow of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.”

     The link below is to a video featuring Fred Markert of The IsaacNewtonproject.com, who is an expert in the rise and fall of civilisations. The short of the long is that the West is now spiralling into collapse. Markert was a former communist, but now a Christian and he argues that only a return to Christian living can save us, because Western civilisation is terminally sick e.g. abortion, the gender agenda, loss of freedom etc. That’s right, not by economics, but by a spiritual revolt against the decency of the modernists.
  https://www.brighteon.com/7f2c713f-442e-4a21-a05f-44463beab95c
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-04-civilization-expert-fred-markert-warns-america-catastrophic-collapse.html

“People who have seen this interview are raving about its impact on their lives, and some have personally texted me and told me they almost couldn’t watch the last half because it was “too scary,” but after they watched all the way through, they understood the importance of the discussion. If you watch just one video this week, make it this one. It’s a can’t-miss, high-IQ discussion about why America has already passed the tipping point and is headed for a cultural, financial and moral collapse from which no nation in history has recovered. It’s more than just America, too: This discussion warns about the collapse of all of Western civilization. When a nation begins to maim its children in the name of LGBT progressivism, for example, it’s one of the last signs that collapse is imminent. And America is already there. If this nation doesn’t immediately denounce child mutilations, child murder (abortion), child rape (pedophilia, widely practiced by Democrats) and other heinous sins such as using aborted fetal tissue in vaccines, we will not exist much longer.”

     This video is worth looking at because it shows two ultra-white cops arresting a white woman for being nude on a public beach, only she has on a thong bikini. Of course, I do not approve, but the point is that the cops were super-eager to make an arrest. There is a comment by some guy who comes along, films it, and maybe has some legal background, who shows how ignorant the cops are. In the end they have to consult a printout to try and work out the law, even though they have already assaulted and false imprisoned said bikini girl. The problem is that cops basically do the easy revenue raising stuff, and soft questionable targets, rather than the hard yard of tackling real crime. This bikini event should not have happened. Instead, these cops should have ben following up crimes in the area. All this while US cops are standing by letting antifa burn, destroy and murder America.
  https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/04/watch-acrobat-detained-wearing-thong-sc-beach-im-not-nude/

     All of the so-called racism events are really about faulty police work. It is a pity that the ideologically-based Marxism attack directed things to the race dead end, when police reform, not defunding is what is needed. Defunded police will be even worse than what we have now, as only the worst police will remain in a job. Good work, Marxist ferals … but, that was your plan!

     I haver been covering the attack being made on Western science by the woke politically correct Left and ethnics, who are obviously seeking to deconstruct the society itself. Jordan Peterson has also recognised this, that soon it will be open season on the hard sciences as well … no, it is already happening.
  https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-the-activists-are-now-stalking-the-hard-scientists

“I have watched the universities of the Western world devour themselves in a myriad of fatal errors over the last two decades, and take little pleasure in observing the inevitable unfold. It is a failing of human reason, with all its limitations, ego, and pretensions, to serve as Cassandra; to derive a certain satisfaction in watching the ship whose demise was foretold breach its hull on rocks hidden from all other observers. The self-righteous pleasure of “I told you so,” is, however, of little comfort when the icy water wends its way around ankle, knee and thigh, threatening to swamp everything still retaining its incalculable and unlikely value, even if it simultaneously makes short shrift of the ignorance and willful blindness that is frequently part and parcel of the death of something once great. … … other recent events drive these points home. A highly cited professor of physics, who I cannot name, at a university I cannot name either (suffice it to say that the former has garnered 100+ publications and 7000+ citations in a highly technical field) had his standard Canadian Federal grant application rejected because he had failed to sufficiently detail his plans to ensure diversity, inclusivity and equity (DIE) practices while conducting his scientific inquiry. It is now standard practice for university hiring boards to insist that their faculty job applicants submit a DIE plan with their curriculum vitae — a terribly dangerous occurrence of its own. I believe that the fundamental reason such plans are required, particularly of those who practice in the so-called “hard” STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is so that those who could not hope to assess the quality of research endeavours in those specialties as a consequence of their own inability or ignorance, can be made into judges by enforcing the adoption of standards of attitude and behaviour that have nothing to do with the fields in question.

     As a high school maths teacher, I have long speculated about how the woke politically correct would get their talons into my abstract discipline. Now I know:
  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/does_mathematics__western_imperialism.html

“Is mathematics next on the chopping block to be deconstructed as a form of "Western imperialism"? A young woman describing herself as a teacher, Ph.D. student, and "social justice change agent," recently gained notoriety for tweeting, "The idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural," a product of "western imperialism/colonialism." Yes, even mathematics, held up as the most objective and neutral of disciplines, is being reshaped by critical theory, which claims that all ideas are social constructions by groups using their power to advance their own interests. This is not just the inflammatory language of young social justice warriors.  Alan Bishop, who teaches at Cambridge University, wrote an article titled "Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism," in which he deplores "the process of cultural invasion in colonised countries by western mathematics." In Educational Studies in Mathematics, two math educators at Georgia State University write, "Dominant mathematics is a system established as right and True by the White men who have historically controlled and constructed the game."  The authors call for "critical mathematics" to expose "the power dynamic between the oppressor — White, male mathematicians — and the oppressed — the marginalized Other." Rochelle Gutiérrez, an education professor at the University of Illinois, writes that "mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.  Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as the mathematical community is generally viewed as White."  Gutiérrez charges that algebra and geometry perpetuate white privilege because the textbook version of math history is Eurocentric: "[c]urricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."