Monday, January 20, 2025

Quote of the year (so far)

 

"Woke"-ness, political correctness, sexism and sheer plain daftness are all evident in this one-liner:


“When Black female students are repeatedly disciplined for being social, loud, or goofy in the mathematics classroom, they experience mathematical violence.”


"Mathematical violence"???  What on earth is that?  Perhaps it's a variation on the ancient Roman custom of decimation, where one legionary out of every ten was put to death to punish severe misconduct?  There's certainly mathematics involved in that, and violence too (very much so) . . . but I haven't yet come across any school, college or university advocating the execution of one in ten students for "being social, loud or goofy".  Perhaps someone should try that, on the grounds of being mathematically - albeit not politically - correct?

The toenail-curling stupidity and mindless blathering of the "woke" are still with us, it seems . . .




Peter


16 comments:

Old NFO said...

WTH??? What are the instructors supposed to do, let them go on???

Aesop said...

Those students experience mathematical violence when they take their shoes off, and still cannot do the math.

Aesop said...

In fact, it's mathematical corporal punishment, because "Da mafz be kickin' yo azz!"

Tree Mike said...

Soooo, chimping out is socially, politically correct? Checking, because this will count towards my mandated Continuing Education in Female Ethnic Studies. Thank you for your time and attention in this Sensitive Matter.
Yours Truly, Toxic White Tree Mike...also, will this enhance my Lists status?

BadFrog said...

Do I take it that what they mean by 'social, loud, or goofy' is being disruptive?

BadFrog said...

Of course they are because of slavery and all that shitz.

Aaron said...

The mathematical violence they suffer from includes problems that multiply, and that their self control is but a fraction of what it should be.

Xoph said...

My Bachelors is in mathematics. Mathematical violence is statistics or Number Theory. I also felt like I got hit over the head repeatedly in history of math. At that time, taught by the chairman of the department. I thought it would be a cake course, turned into one of my harder courses. Our ancestors were quite brilliant.

Dan said...


People recoil in horror from the concept of eugenics...but it really is the only effective solution to societal insanity like "woke".

gwalchmai munn said...

Fight racial discrimination! Fight the woke!

Mind your own business said...

Undoubtedly. And probably that's being generous, given the way the barbarian horde usually behaves.

bobby said...

They use "race" and "culture" interchangeably, depending on which helps their argument. If the girls are being rude and disruptive, it's culture. You can and should change bad culture. To fall back on racial protection to justify obnoxiousness just hurts those girls in the long run.

Anonymous said...

The beauty of "math" is that it is one thing that is absolutely indifferent to your race, color, creed, or gender. One plus One always and forever will equal Two, no matter one's pronouns, orientation, heritage, or melanin concentration.

Anonymous said...

I suffered intellectual trauma when I took integral calculus but you didn't hear me complain.

Chris said...

Scratch a progressive, find a racist.

Tree Mike said...

The problem isn't one plus one. The problem is, if you don't come up with 5, when adding 4+4= , you're going to "learn" the "proper" answer.