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Trigonometry Is Racist!
National Review ^ | February 27, 2015 | KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON

Posted on 02/27/2015 5:35:37 PM PST by Steelfish

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To: Steelfish

“Math is hard.”

- Barbie


61 posted on 02/27/2015 6:30:10 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: gundog
Stop it. You'really scalin-en me.

Opps, that's geometry.

62 posted on 02/27/2015 6:30:59 PM PST by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: doorgunner69

You could have probably made the same point without trying to pass off a fake news clip as a real one.


64 posted on 02/27/2015 6:34:54 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
As for “TRIG-onometry” being racist, I’ll keep my mouth shut.

Anything named after one of Sarah Palin's kids must be racist!

-PJ

65 posted on 02/27/2015 6:35:45 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Steelfish

“An African-American scholar says that emphasis on STEM education is bad for blacks.”

....

So is this LIBERAL black man saying that Black are genetically incapable of handling math.....

I see this as an indirect attack and smear on the great Thomas Sowell...


66 posted on 02/27/2015 6:39:04 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: jacquej

Although I like the spirit of your post, I’d disagree with “what’s important”:

cursive handwriting - Other than your signature, I wouldn’t spend much time on it. Reading, maybe. Writing, probably not. There is no market for it now and I don’t see one developing.

“math calculation by hand” - To a point, perhaps - I believe that understanding the relationships between numbers is more easily done with learning math “by hand”.

BTW, I challenge anyone over 40 to divide two fractional numbers by hand, for example, 0.034345 / 0.75634 and come up with the correct answer. I just barely did and I was a math wizard at one time. I hadn’t done that in 35 years!!

know how to use a slide rule

No market for it, although it MIGHT help one understand the relationships between numbers.

operate a manual typewriter

Only of historical value. Typing, however - is an absolutely critical skill.

understand the dewey decimal system

A vague familiarity with it might be useful, but I wouldn’t spend much time on it unless you plan on becoming a history major.

The #1 problem I see is lack of critical thinking skills, which I believe stems from the “no consequences” mode of living young people seem to have now. Cause doesn’t seem to have much of an effect, and liberal thinking further muddles this (”bad choices” being the least likely cause of personal failure).


67 posted on 02/27/2015 6:43:11 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Yes.


68 posted on 02/27/2015 6:44:46 PM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: doorgunner69

I took Calculus I in college from a black female instructor, and it was pretty effing difficult!


69 posted on 02/27/2015 6:46:11 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai
I deem them similar to the Islamic hustlers selling the twisted hatred of Jews in Israel.

I have to disagree with you there.

The Islamic hustlers really do want to kill all the Jews and us too. They aren't in it for the buck. They are really insane.

The Al Sharptons of the world including this hustler who claims math is racist are just after the money. They are smart enough to not kill the geese who lay their golden eggs.

70 posted on 02/27/2015 6:51:37 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Chainmail
Right...
Right up until the power shuts off, or the pipes burst, or the bridge falls,or the road degrades,again, or the drought comes etc.

Meanwhile our government is intent on busily importing more cheap foreign tech workers, although all those millions of USA citizens who follow(ed) your advice now, and decades ago, are being laid off, or are working in retail sales or service positions.

And all those formerly mid-level to high paying, blue collar physical labor intensive skills, are sub-contracted to illiterate cheap foreign legal/illegal employees, even though buildings and bridges now fall down, pipes aren't laid properly, the food supply is riddled with dangerous QC issues from seed to consumption, (again, etc...)

SMH.

71 posted on 02/27/2015 6:51:53 PM PST by sarasmom (Is it time yet?)
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To: onedoug
I knew a older black guy that had come up with some amazing theories of gravitation. Of course, he was likely one in ten or a hundred thousand. A glance at the engineering departments in most firms will tell the tale as well.

It is not that hard, but does require a mental discipline that the urban culture is incompatible with. I had no trouble with trig or geometry. I only started stumbling years later with vector calculus.

But then, I was working full time and trying to get a degree at night, not the best way to learn advanced math.

72 posted on 02/27/2015 6:56:38 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Steelfish

Yes, Mr. Interviewer, I majored in Black Studies and minored in Women’s Studies. I’d like to apply for the job as CEO since I is obviously kalified.


73 posted on 02/27/2015 6:57:43 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Star Traveler
Guess who will get the better jobs? ... LOL ...

The Blacks. Affirmative Action dictates they get the good jobs even if they are not qualified. It has been happening for decades, is happening now, and will keep happening in the future.

74 posted on 02/27/2015 7:01:28 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: doorgunner69
But then, I was working full time and trying to get a degree at night, not the best way to learn advanced math.

Don't I know it.

I wanted to be a geologist, and then a physicist before I realized I hadn't the discipline for either.

But math and science are a great pleasure in my retirement. 'Got a lot of great books. But I could never go back to school again.

75 posted on 02/27/2015 7:05:26 PM PST by onedoug
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To: VerySadAmerican

Signs be ok, co-signs be racis! So I goes off on a tangent.


76 posted on 02/27/2015 7:05:46 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: jacquej
"...as well as basic double entry bookkeeping..."

I was never an accountant or bookkeeper, but when I learned the basics of the double entry system with a couple of semisters of accounting classes, I was amazed by the genious involved in developing it. It was both very simple, yet very sophisticated.

An absolutely beautiful system that we take so for granted.

77 posted on 02/27/2015 7:07:00 PM PST by Ditto
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To: OldMissileer

Maybe for flipping burgers or punching cash registers or stocking shelves and stuff like that ...but not where they are designing planes, bridges and buildimgs ... LOL ...

People are not very friendly towards the idea of buildings topping over, planes dropping out of the sky and bridges collapsing ... :-) ... [ ... and, of course, that’s where you find trig ... ]


78 posted on 02/27/2015 7:07:33 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Steelfish

Sure, it rhymes with ‘bigotry.’


79 posted on 02/27/2015 7:08:06 PM PST by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: WayneS

I recommend The Bell Curve for you.


80 posted on 02/27/2015 7:08:57 PM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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