Racism in school curriculums isn’t limited to history…apparently it’s in math, too
According to a recent Washington Post piece the current math curriculums “enshrines the names of White men” while “blurring” the contributions of others. In the op-ed, the author demands that the formulas with the allegedly “racist” origins be removed from math textbooks while referring to the issue as “the other CRT” which has been all but neglected.
Breitbart reports: The Wednesday op-ed, penned by Theodore Kim, an associate professor of computer science at Yale University, began by highlighting how Virginia’s recent gubernatorial race “revealed that the education wars will play a major role in politics for the foreseeable future.”
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Though debates over how history is taught in educational institutions are “increasingly framed in relation to ‘critical race theory,’” Kim argued the same wasn’t done in mathematics.
“[T]he conversations are difficult even in subjects such as math, which is perceived, incorrectly, as a neutral space outside the reach of structural racism and national histories,” he wrote.
In one example, he noted the “jarring” contrast between the names for “Euclid’s Algorithm” and the “Chinese Remainder Theorem.”
“The juxtaposition is jarring: The Greek scholar Euclid (300 B.C.) gets his name attached to an algorithm, while a Chinese scholar’s identity is erased, his work reduced to his nationality,” he wrote.
“This dichotomy reveals the racial assumptions hidden in seemingly apolitical subjects and how the biases of the past are embedded in the present,” he added.
Admitting he was unaware of why the name of Chinese mathematician Sun Tzu (unrelated to the famed general of the same name) — who is widely credited with popularizing the Chinese Remainder Theorem — was not included in its name, Kim pointed to historical context to make the assumption it was racially motivated.
“We can’t know what was in his heart, but we know that [‘White mathematician’ L.E.] Dickson made the choice amid a surge of anti-Asian violence in the United States stretching back to the late-19th century,” he wrote.
“Decades of legislation aiming to cut off Asian immigration accompanied this violence,” he added.
In another example, Kim pointed to the “Chinese Postman Problem,” which refers to the mathematical formulation of Chinese mathematician Mei-Ko Kwan.
“This naming goes beyond obscuring Kwan’s contribution: It becomes ambiguous whether a Chinese scholar originated the problem, or whether it is examining an imaginary postal worker who happens to be Chinese,” Kim wrote, adding that such lapses in naming mathematical concepts “rarely extend to White scholars.”
Referencing a statistical process known as the “Chinese Restaurant Process,” Kim goes further, claiming such “racist” labels entail the “dehumanization” of their formulators and contradict the notion of math as a “global” endeavor. He wrote:
With this naming, the implicit dehumanization of the ‘Chinese Postman’ became explicit. Instead of referencing an Eastern scholarly tradition, ‘Chinese’ was used to refer to a mindless horde of imaginary restaurant patrons and hostesses, lacking all agency or humanity.
“These uses of ‘Chinese’ can be found in math textbooks today,” he added. “Allowing these racist namings to persist erases the fact that the construction of math and science has always been a global project.”
Kim then accused the current mathematical curriculum of “enshrin[ing] the names of White men” while “blurring” the contributions of others.
“Rather than celebrating the innate curiosity that drives humanity to make discoveries around the globe, these practices have historically enshrined the names of White men,” he wrote. “The rest of the world is reduced to an inscrutable, fungible mass.”
“The textbooks that showcase these names, while blurring out the contributions of others, constitute false monuments to White supremacy,” he added.
This entire problem would be solved very easily if official policy would simply admit that race is a valid concept and that inequality is a fact of biological existence.
Of course that would also be abused, because many persons in positions of power start out corrupt, and many of them are severely limited intellectually, so typically they often tend to misapply principles generally.
They’re greedy devious dishonest lying selfish thieving pieces 8f it.
there is no pure race we are all mutts
principles and intellect WTF you think intellect teaches principles those two feilds are not even on the same side of the coin
I’m white and some blacks are smarter than me and some are not as smart. My doctor is black. He’s smarter than me .
That’s what you think .
THINKING is knowing but there is no black no white only mutts
I’m white & I worked with blacks who were smarter than me running the cash register. They were multitaskers better than me. I’m handicapped, hearing impaired. But, that doesn’t make them better than me.
It’s about ruling class families It is not about race per se It’s about imperialists wanting the world Ordinary white people are just as powerless as any other coloured people .And the Church and Crown bred the racism intentionally into society by command from the ruling families who needed their SUBJECTS and FAITHFUL to believe they were entitled by God to rule over the beastly pagan black savages and save them from their satanic evil cultures .It was planned and conspires in order to make the ruling families much much richer by exploiting their subjects stupidity .And they’re repeating the operation but in reverse this time for the same motives .Their private profits .And people are still educated idiots .
MUtts did this mutts did that SO WTF if you trace your lifeline it all leads back to the what?
NO pure RACE only MUTTS
It’s over.. being white in America is a losing game. Don’t believe me? Look at the advertisements.. always blacks or mixed-race couples. If the retailers are betting their advertising dollars on this demographic change? it’s over. Of course whites and other people in America don’t have to buy the racially-marketed items.. But they will. Game, set, match, by default.
and all the trash they are selling is made where? in china via the white right reagan goon`SS,The white man sold out the white man and tex was mex B4 it was tex so whitie stole everything from native america anyway so the game was over before it even started,Trump sold out to russia to be president 200 million for a 20 million dolllar palm beach estate sold to a russian so russia payed the don trump 180 million to be thier american president and zero GOPs or demmys called him out and it ndever even came up at his peachy party you a member at mar largo? oh well than move on
CRT= let’s go Brandon
The talking cable pundits are now pointing out that ” suburbs” are racists. The fact individuals chose to move out of cities thinking less crime, less drugs , better education for kids was racists. That would be my reasoning to leave cities and spend 2 hours a day communting to work and pay higher property tax.
Russians never colonised negroid countries Danes Swedes Piles Cz3chs Baltic States ,Romanians Hungarians etc etc never took part in the 8nvadu8nscperpetrated by the English as the biggest offenders ,the Spanish second and the Dutch 3rd It’s NOT about racism but Nationalism And if course the Dutch English and Spanish were all intermarried FAMILIES .These fraudulent academics are liars and hypocrites and bought monkeys .
Ooh auto corrupts good isnt it Just screws up the crucial words They never too part in the invasions perpetrated by the English Spanish and Dutch FAMILIES
& monks are monkeys? or honkies WTF white trash is what? muts are muts and everyone lived in huts and huts
two class system is starting to progress? no just more droneing as the under class waits for the next war to be sent off too