Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread

[Rob]

When Millennials take over in the next ~5 years or so, I hope they treat us Gen-Xers nicely. We were the truly transitional generation. The difference between someone in their late 30s and early/mid 50s today seems like a wider gap than any other.

[BurtReynolds]

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[epilogue]

Tweeners.

[BurtReynolds]

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[Bi_3]

No no no. It was star wars or Nintendo or van Halen generation or something like that.

Oregon Trail

[BurtReynolds]

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[wease]

Goddamn, I loved that game.

[BurtReynolds]

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[bune]

There's something inherently hilarious about the Spook name juxtaposition on that post.

[LoathedVermin72]

I don't understand why people capitalize "Black"

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I don't understand why people capitalize "Black"

It’s a race and it’s racist not to.

[LoathedVermin72]

I don't understand why people capitalize "Black"

It’s a race and it’s racist not to.

Are you being facetious? No one capitalizes white, so grammatically it just doesn't make sense to me.

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I don't understand why people capitalize "Black"

It’s a race and it’s racist not to.

Are you being facetious? No one capitalizes white, so grammatically it just doesn't make sense to me.

Yes. I was being facetious. I thought you got me.

[LoathedVermin72]

I don't understand why people capitalize "Black"

It’s a race and it’s racist not to.

Are you being facetious? No one capitalizes white, so grammatically it just doesn't make sense to me.

Yes. I was being facetious. I thought you got me.

oh don't be silly you know i'd totally bone you

[BurtReynolds]

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[wease]

I don't understand why people capitalize "Black"

It’s a race and it’s racist not to.

Are you being facetious? No one capitalizes white, so grammatically it just doesn't make sense to me.

Yes. I was being facetious. I thought you got me.

oh don't be silly you know i'd totally bone you

[BurtReynolds]

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[Bi_3]

Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege

Toni Airaksinen
on Oct 23, 2017 at 8:20 AM EDT


A math education professor at the University of Illinois argued in a newly published book that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White,” Gutierrez argued.

Gutierrez also worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege, fretting that “curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."

Math also helps actively perpetuate white privilege too, since the way our economy places a premium on math skills gives math a form of “unearned privilege” for math professors, who are disproportionately white.

“Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?” she asks, further wondering why math professors get more research grants than “social studies or English” professors.

Further, she also worries that evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white counterparts.

“If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned,” she says, adding that there are so many minorities who “have experienced microaggressions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.”

To fight this, Gutierrez encourages aspiring math teachers to develop a sense of “political conocimiento,” a Spanish phrase for “political knowledge for teaching.”

Gutierrez stresses that all knowledge is “relational,” asserting that “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively."

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That adults continue to spout that bullshit puzzles me to no end.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Norah]

Or realize that the number system we use is Arabic?