Sorry, what?
A Black Lives Matter-supporting teacher took to Twitter to assert that 2+2 only = 4 because of “western imperialism.”
Yes, really.
Brittany Marshall’s tweet went viral after she claimed during the course of a discussion about racism, “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”
Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.
In this case, Marshall appears to be arguing that maths itself is racist, an argument that has been made by numerous social justice warriors down the years, some of whom question why ‘Western Math’ is in common use and not other methods such as the way Aborigines count (maybe because we’re western and not Aborigine).
The notion that 2+2 might not = 4 is of course lifted from George Orwell’s 1984, when the one party state was able to torture dissidents into believing it could equal 5.
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Sending your children to government school is now child abuse.
ReplyDelete"the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization"
ReplyDeleteReally? I thought it was actually because of physical reality. For example, if there are two PANTIFA corpses lying dead in the road, you can see they are physically there, and kick them to verify they are real. If you add two more, there are now truly four PANTIFA corpses in the road to be disposed of. Culture and declarations of western imperialism/colonization has nothing to do with it. Freedom, Liberty, and a God given Right To Self-Defense is what probably put the corpses there. No LIBTARD ideas are going to change the total.
Try shorting her check and I bet we'll see her disdain for western math evaporate.
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