Here is a petition started by the father of a boy who was refused summer classes by the Ontario Ministry of Education because of his race: http://chng.it/7swDWgQmdn
I was only half-surprised yesterday to learn that New Zealand has come to the same conclusion that Ontario has, and — coincidentally! — at around the same time: that math education is inherently and systemically racist.
In the case of Ontario, we have been conspiring for decades, apparently, to teach math in an anti-black racist way. And, strangely, New Zealand has suddenly come to a similar realization, that it has been teaching math in an anti-Maori racist way.
We are living at a point in history when *every* disparity, *every* gap, *every* “disproportionate outcome” is instantly and reflexively explained by one, and only one, cause — the racism of white people.
I wonder, then, how we are to explain the gaps and disparities in places where there are no white people?
It also gets a bit weird when certain non-white groups end up doing better than whites. For example, in the USA (and other countries), children of Asian immigrants outperform their white classmates. It’s a peculiar kind of racism that has white folks trying to keep black kids down while at the same time trying to get Asian kids to do better than their own kids.
Making matters even more awkward for the Ibram Kendi types is the fact that children of Nigerian immigrants (who are quite black, I might add), are also doing better than their white, American-born counterparts.
There are so many anomalies in the “white racism is the root of all evil” narrative!
Could it be that the explanation has to do with something other than racism?
It’s an obvious question, but it is blasphemous to ask it out loud.
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I was only half-surprised yesterday to learn that New Zealand has come to the same conclusion that Ontario has, and — coincidentally! — at around the same time: that math education is inherently and systemically racist.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/school-maths-education-royal-society-report-calls-for-sweeping-changes/AHSDIC2EDB3WCATPMLR2R72PHU/
In the case of Ontario, we have been conspiring for decades, apparently, to teach math in an anti-black racist way. And, strangely, New Zealand has suddenly come to a similar realization, that it has been teaching math in an anti-Maori racist way.
We are living at a point in history when *every* disparity, *every* gap, *every* “disproportionate outcome” is instantly and reflexively explained by one, and only one, cause — the racism of white people.
I wonder, then, how we are to explain the gaps and disparities in places where there are no white people?
It also gets a bit weird when certain non-white groups end up doing better than whites. For example, in the USA (and other countries), children of Asian immigrants outperform their white classmates. It’s a peculiar kind of racism that has white folks trying to keep black kids down while at the same time trying to get Asian kids to do better than their own kids.
Making matters even more awkward for the Ibram Kendi types is the fact that children of Nigerian immigrants (who are quite black, I might add), are also doing better than their white, American-born counterparts.
There are so many anomalies in the “white racism is the root of all evil” narrative!
Could it be that the explanation has to do with something other than racism?
It’s an obvious question, but it is blasphemous to ask it out loud.