re: So, Apparently Math is Racist Now

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Dr RC

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You're being straight up intellectually lazy. Here, I'll make it easy on you. This is her bio from the University of Illinois website:

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Dr. Gutierrez' scholarship focuses on equity issues in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning. Through in-depth analyses of effective teaching/learning communities and longitudinal studies of developing and practicing teachers, her work challenges deficit views of students who are Latin@/x, Black, and/or American Indian and suggests that mathematics teachers need to be prepared with much more than just content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, or knowledge of diverse students if they are going to be successful. Her current research projects focus upon: developing in pre-service teachers the knowledge and disposition to teach powerful mathematics to urban students; the roles of uncertainty, tensions, and "Nepantla" in teaching; and the political knowledge (and forms of creative insubordination) that mathematics teachers need to effectively teach in an era of high-stakes education.

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Pay special attention to the underlined part. That is why you should be concerned that she's involved in education in any way.

She's not even a math professor.

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Fair enough, but never make yourself look foolish for the sake of the dumb.

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I can promise using the playing card angle will help more people understand what I was saying than people who will realize the saying is actually referencing a garden tool.

I may look foolish to a handful, but it will save me countless posts trying to explain what I was saying to people who didn't get it. I'll take that.


ETA: Also, using analogies that most people won't understand is exclusionary, therefore racist. Don't forget.

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I can promise using the playing card angle will help more people understand what I was saying than people who will realize the saying is actually referencing a garden tool.

I may look foolish to a handful, but it will save me countless posts trying to explain what I was saying to people who didn't get it. I'll take that.


ETA: Also, using analogies that most people won't understand is exclusionary, therefore racist. Don't forget.

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So...you couldn't use a different analogy that was consistent with the source material?

"Call a spade a spade, don't call a spade a wheelbarrow."

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Minorities 'have experienced microaggressions from participating in math classrooms… (where people are) judged by whether they can reason abstractly,' she wrote.

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She talking about Asians? MFers always set the curve so high in Calculus 1550 i couldn't get above 54. TA was a Phillipino who was barely intelligible, so i was screwed.