MATH IS RACIST…ARE YOU NUTS?

For decades Liberals have accused all opponents of being Racists.  It makes no difference who you are.  You can be a Civil Rights leader, black, white, oriental, native American, you are labelled a Racist if you oppose a liberal.  Recently, Math has been labelled Racist.  What!!?  How is this happening?  Read on and I’ll answer the question.

The answer is Post Modernism.  I ran into this philosophy in 1960 when I arrived at college.  Post Modernism was being taught in the freshman Philosophy class.  I was enrolled in the pre-engineering program.  When you find out what Post Modernism is, it will be clear why I had a real problem with it.

The philosophy can be summarized by two basic points:  1) There is no Truth.  2) Reality is trumped by perception.  You can imagine the problem.  All but one of our classes were teaching us “Truths” and helping us discover reality.  The Philosophy class was telling students the opposite.  We ended up dismissing Post Modernism as absurd and we moved on.  I can’t remember one student who bought into it.  But, hold on.  It’s back!

Post Modernism is a reaction to Modernism.  Modernism goes back many years.  The essentials of our civilization are based on Modernism.  It held that there are truths and there is reality.  We all remember science classes where we learned “truths”.  They were called “laws” or “axioms” or “theorems” or “principles”.  These are statements of what was determined to be factual.  All sciences are full of them.  We memorized them, studied them and developed equations to measure them.  We applied them to useful applications of each discipline.  Post Modernism holds that all truth is relative. (Of course, that is a statement about truth that destroys the argument.) Post Modernists are telling our young people that there are no incorrect answers to math problems.  There are many answers.  Sane people would dismiss such an idea as absurd.  But, in our racially charged society, Post Modernists have cloaked their absurdities in Race to give them legitimacy.  They are claiming that only white people are Modernists and that Modernism is a product of white supremacy.  They assume all people of color should be Post Modernists and should abandon Truth because its Racist.

If our civilization were to buy into such a philosophy in big numbers, civilization as we know it would collapse.  Science would be meaningless.  Of course, as we are seeing, math would cease to exist. Medicine, Psychology, the Judicial system, would be in chaos. In fact, that is the goal of Post Modernism…Chaos.  That’s what all the riots in our cities are about.  They want to create massive chaos.  Why?  Because the only solution to chaos is complete totalitarian rule.  During times of chaos, the people will demand someone take control and straighten out the mess.  They will tolerate a dictator or totalitarian system to “fix” the problem.  This scheme is not new.  Statist Totalitarian leaders have used this plot over and over for centuries to grab power.

Post Modernism also explains the surge in the Gender Confusion Movement.  For them, perception trumps reality.  If you perceive you are a different gender than your birth gender, that becomes fact.  Society must accommodate your perception not the medical reality.  It makes no difference that medical science has found that almost all children who question their birth gender and think about being the opposite change back as they go through puberty.  That fact is ignored and the Movement demands that the child be given chemicals and operations that can’t be reversed at an early age.  It’s no wonder that doctors are calling such actions “child abuse”. 

As Post Modernism infiltrates our education system, we will see our civilization crumble into chaos.  Racist Math is only a small sample of the absurdities that will follow.  We must demand our teachers be Realists if we hope to survive.  Parents have to be informed as to what is being taught in the schools their children attend.  If there are signs that the flames of hatred and division and chaos are being stoked by the staff, demand change before it is too late.  Hold on!  I’ve just been informed that Oregon is looking seriously at altering its math program to remove “racism”.  What would be altered?  “Correct Answers” and specified processes to arrive at correct answers would be changed because some how they were developed by “white supremacy”.  Basically, what is being proposed is extreme racism.  The proponents of this nonsense are postulating that only white people are capable of handling math as it’s been taught forever.  They assume all other races are inferior.  Now, that’s real racism. And it is a blatant lie.  I’ve taught various courses in science and math to every conceivable race and all races are able to grasp and use it successfully. 

Consider how important basic math skills to our civilization.  Just about every job demands basic math skills…accountants, store clerks, mechanics, secretaries, administrators, teachers, truck drivers, etc. all need to do basic math.  Without basic math skills, nobody could pass an entrance exam into any field or institution or school.  Imagine how far a candidate for any position or school were to get if they answered a math problem with “there is no correct answer”.  A diploma from any Oregon school wouldn’t be worth a piece of toilet paper.  Graduates would have to immediately be placed on welfare because they couldn’t get a job. 

If you are the parent or grandparent of a school age child, you are in a very difficult position.  Many of the public school systems are broken.  Look what the teachers’ unions are doing to children during the pandemic.  Look at the test scores of public school grads.  Many of these people aren’t qualified to teach our children.  They shouldn’t be allowed within 100 yards of them.  They have traded in education for indoctrination into beliefs and practices that we have no desire for our children to learn.  They go to extremes to keep parents from knowing what is being taught.  Why?  They know there would be a rebellion.  So, what can we do?  We can put our children in private schools.  But that is very expensive and may not be nearby.  We can home school.  But we may not have the skills and time for that.  Vouchers are a reasonable alternative, but you will have to fight the teachers’ union for those.  Whatever you do, be informed.  Demand that you be given access to what is being taught in each class…yes, even math.  Organize parent groups to oversee what is being instilled into your children.  Get to know the teachers and administrators.  If you see a problem, speak up.  Remember, you are paying these people.  I wish you well.