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Math class is a white, cisheteropatriarchal space and that has to change

We were amazed back in 2020 that someone on Twitter floated the idea that two plus two can equal five, and then a bunch of our intellectual superiors chimed in on how two plus two can actually equal five and that insisting that two plus two equals four is “whiteness.”

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If you squint you’ll be able to see on that slide that some of the characteristics of white supremacy are “either/or thinking” and “objectivity.” (So is the scientific method.)

As Twitchy reported, some schools in Oregon were being informed that asking students in math class to “show their work” is “white supremacy.” Why? Because it requires students to worship the written word as well as exhibit paternalism, both of which are building blocks of white supremacy culture as well. Math class is sick with white supremacist thinking.

We haven’t brought gender into the equation, though, and Cathy Young tracked down a Joint Mathematics Meetings presentation called …

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“Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice.”

We have to credit the author of the presentation: Luis Antonio Leyva, who based it on his piece published in the American Educational Research Journal.

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It got published in a peer-reviewed journal!

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Here’s his video biography from Vanderbilt:

And yet … this is an associate professor who published a paper on it in a peer-reviewed journal, which caught the eye of the person putting together the conference and giving it an airing. It’s just stupid.

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