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association-of-free-people

When your noodle friend wants to go to school with you

That dumbass teacher wrote racist paper towards both whites and non whites. Non whites being too stupid to do math. Shaming whites for being white and how their culture is racist.

Well yeah, that’s the nature of the beast here. These so called progressives are so busy bragging about how many steps they’re taking that they fail to notice they’re walking backwards. It’s bad for everyone.

cutepetclub

A University of Illinois math professor argues in a new book that algebra and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Gutierrez worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege because “emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi” give the impression that math “was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.”

She also worries that evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white counterparts.

A math education professor at the University of Illinois argued in a newly published book that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

“Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?” Tweet This

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White,” Gutierrez argued.

Gutierrez also worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege, fretting that “curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.“

Math also helps actively perpetuate white privilege too, since the way our economy places a premium on math skills gives math a form of “unearned privilege” for math professors, who are disproportionately white.

“Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?” she asks, further wondering why math professors get more research grants than “social studies or English” professors.

Further, she also worries that evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white counterparts.

“If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned,” she says, adding that there are so many minorities who “have experienced microaggressions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.”

To fight this, Gutierrez encourages aspiring math teachers to develop a sense of “political conocimiento,” a Spanish phrase for “political knowledge for teaching.”

Gutierrez stresses that all knowledge is “relational,” asserting that “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.”

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I knew we’d get here eventually.

Published academic declares math racist.

association-of-free-people

all-aboard-the-bane-train

So certain peoples inherently suck at complex sciences?

I wonder if there is correlation between these same folks and crime? Poor neighborhoods? With ancestry in nations that still look like the year 5 in 2017?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

triss19

I’m tellin ya. North Asian supremacy is coming.

brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2

@dangerbooze being better at math is white culture, so I guess Asians are white again.

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch

I for one welcome the North Asian-Caucasian Hegemony

alaija

So East Asians and South Asians are going to take over the world?

HOLY

SHIT

Fucking fire this woman. Holy fucking shit.

if-you-give-a-feminist-a-cookie

Did this woman really write a paper on how minorities are too dumb to learn complex math?? O.o

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thirdplanet13

I’m very glad I don’t read comics now.

i-n-m-h

These things are literally the reason why I stay away from comics.

because apparently my gender can’t be represented in this kind of media without having self-righteous, sanctimonious, sexist and fucking misandrist politics shoved down their throats by self-righteous, sanctimonious, sexist and fucking misandrist people.

These people can write whatever they want, but fuck me, I sure as fuck don’t plan on reading it.

neonsoakeddreams-deactivated201

^ Ding Ding.

And lets be honest. The stories are awful, the art is eyebleedingly bad and the editors are awful people.

I’m actually thankful I don’t read comics anymore because I didn’t have to watch this entire shitshow destroy one of my hobbies.

Holy crap I knew comics had gone in the crapper the last decade or so but yeesh, you couldn’t pay me to pick up one of these cringe fests. I’ll stick to the MCU and The Flash for my comics fix.

Its been only the last 5 years. 10 years ago there were still decent stories being told and the art was still good.

It's like these new writers don't think that people can't just be people. It's like they think women only think about tampons an men only think about harassing women. It's like they think minorities can't make the right decisions without a nice big dose of 'you don't understand how oppressed you are'.

All these characters have been made into uninteresting stereotypes, but if you ask the writers they'll tell you that it's not their bad writing that drives people away, it's that the readers are too dumb to know it's good.

end0skeletal

The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel may be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen with my own two eyeballs.

creedencebuegwaterrevival-deact

It's cuteness is so extreme that it's kinda scary O.o

most people are real far removed from the process of what they eat

jillsteinfuneralcity

well, there are ethical ways to kill live lobsters and shellfish before cooking them but i mean, crustaceans are basically giant ocean bugs so if you have no problem killing a roach then what’s the hold up?

aneurysmsandanalogues

It just doesn’t make sense to boil something alive when you can easily sever the spine first and prevent needless pain and suffering. . Like ur already eating the dude why you gon boil him alive?

creedencebuegwaterrevival-deact

tell me in detail how u would sever the spine of a crab please

spider-hands-mannos-deactivated

Crabs don’t have spines guys However if you want to kill it quick, you can cut the head off.

the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202

I thought you had to boil them alive though because the meat spoils so quickly… That’s how it is with lobsters anyway.

domina-honoribila

@hello-kitty-senpai pray tell, where is the “head” on a crab?

spider-hands-mannos-deactivated

if he’s chill enough to be eating while he’s being cooked i’m sure it’s not a huge deal. If he were suffering wouldn’t he be trying to escape instead of eating the shit you throw in with’em?

itscolossal

Beetle Sculptures Encrusted with Minerals by Nozomi

they’re so realistic that I wouldn’t want to touch them because I’m squeamish around bugs >.>

incidentalcomics

How to Finish

I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.

jdmarge-deactivated20110911

Now I just wana punch a pinata

Remember to look out for the welfare and well being of black cats this holiday season

prolapz

whatpath:

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:

Coffee

Cameras

Experimental Physics

Chess

Soap

Shampoo

Perfume/spirits

Irrigation

Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons

Combination locks

Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)

Surgical instruments

Anesthesia

Windmill

Treatment of Cowpox

Fountain pen

Numbering system

Algebra/Trigonometry

Modern Cryptology

3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)

Crystal glasses

Carpets

Checks

Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.

University

Optics

Music

Toothbrush

Hospitals

Bathing

Quilting

Mariner’s Compass

Soft drinks

Pendulum

Braille

Cosmetics

Plastic surgery

Calligraphy

Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.

It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.

It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.

It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.

It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.

It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.

It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey

It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.

It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

The list goes on………..

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

Sources:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf

fabfeminista

I couldn’t be happier to reblog this.

aber-flyingtiger

I’m fairly certain the internal combustion engine wasn’t invented by a Muslim, at least not in the form we would know it today. Or the windmill. Or the compass (I believe that was the Chinese).

Muslim scholars did do a lot of valuable work on mathematics and astronomy, but some of these things are not ideas first dreamt up by them and some of them are very vague.

acmtedder

I wouldn’t know where to start on how intensely inaccurate that list is.

piety-patience-modesty-distrust

Allow me:

Coffee – Not exactly. It isn’t know certainly when people started using coffee. Probably people of South America were using it at the same time. The first account of people drinking coffee was of Muslims (some people say it was the ancestors of the Oromo people in Ethiopia). However, had the German not reported this strange beverage and had the Dutch East India Trading Company not started bringing coffee to Europe, had the Italians not popularised it, you wouldn’t have coffee.

Cameras (also including the thing about Muslims and optics) – The first person to come up with the idea that a pinhole can form an inverted and focused image, when light passes through the hole and into a dark area was Mozi, a Chinese philosopher from the 5th Century bc. Aristotle, a Greek, noted the same phenomenon in the 4th Century bc (certainly, not knowing of Mozi’s same observation). The actual camera was invented by a Frenchman, Nicéphore Niépce. (I did a report on him in primary school for christ’s sake.)

Physics - Astronomy was studied as far back as 3000 bc by the Ancient Egyptians, Sumarians, etc. Everyone studied astronomy, especially because it was part of their mythologies. The word physics comes from the Greeks (φυσική). The Pre-Socratic philosophers were the first to practise natural science, during the Archaic Period (650 BC – 480 BC) or Greek Dark Ages. Even our idea of atoms comes from Leucippus and Democritus (the Atomists). Note Bene: all of this happened hundreds of years before Islam even existed.

Chess – I think you are referencing Chaturanga, which was a sort of fore-runner to modern chess (which was invented in Europe). However, this game is of Indian origin and was taken up by the Muslims after they conquered Persia… The irony here is unbelievable.

Soap - the earliest record of soap in the Islamic Middle East comes from the 12th Century AD. The earliest record of something resembling soap comes from 1550 bc in Ancient Egypt. An actual recipe for Egyptian “soap” exists from the reign of Nabonidus (556-538 bc). The Romans used soap but more as a pomade for hair (ref: Pliny the Elder). However, they record that the Gauls and Germans used something extremely similar to their own soap for bathing. This is all before the 1 Century AD… The word “soap” is thought to come from Mount Sapo (where they sacrificed animals and got the fat to make soap) – the word “sapo” means soap in latin (probably taken from sebum meaning tallow, which is the word Pliny the Elder uses)

Shampoo – see above…

Perfume – Perfumes were used all the way back to the Egyptian and Mesopotamian times, refined (of course) by the Romans. This one was just lame tbh.

Irrigation – If you don’t think people couldn’t figure out how to water plants before Mohammad, you must have brain damage. The Mesopotamians had a irrigation system, the Egyptians used the flooding of the Nile, Perians used irrigation…

Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons - Tbh I’m not going to look all of these up but let’s just to one: The internal combustian engine was invented by Siegfried Marcus.

Combination locks – I had no idea about this one so I googled it: “The earliest known combination lock was excavated in a Roman period tomb on the Kerameikos, Athens.” A Muslim and an Italian inventor both independently of each other created a device similar to the combination lock. However, the modern combination lock was invented by a German. Thanks, Wikipedia.

Architectural innovation – I’m not even going to start with this one. Go to Italy and look at the Pantheon. Or go to Greece and look at the Acropolis. Or go to Egypt and look at a pyramid. Jesus Christ, do you even get out of the house???

Surgical instruments - Again, a greek word. People were performing surgery back to the Ancient Egyptians. The Greeks did it. The Romans did it. The Chinese did it. Obviously, they must have had instruments. They didn’t cut open someone’s skull with their teeth.

Anesthesia - another greek word. Lots of ancient peoples used hers to sedate people. The Mesopotamians used the poppy to sedate people…

Windmill – Um, no. Heron of Alexandria invented the windmill. He was a Greek, living in Egypt, under the Roman Empire… in the first century AD. How could you mistake that for Muslim?

Treatment of Cowpox – As a classics major, I know 0 about diseases. Someone can do more research on this if they’d like…

Fountain pen – congratulations! This one is right. What luck!

Numbering system – NO. The numbering system used most Western countries is from the Muslims. However, people were doing math and had numbers far before. They were just written differently. Saying that Muslims invented numbers is like saying that the the English invented language.

Algebra/Trigonometry – No. Absolutely no. Anyone heard of Euclid? The Pythagorean theorem? What was written on the door Plato’s Academy? “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter.” All of the Ancient Greek philosophers were well versed in mathematics. You can thank them. Now. Go thank them.

Modern Cryptology - I don’t know what you mean by modern but people have been making up codes since they could make up words…

3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts) - Sorry, the Romans did this, too. gustatio, primae mensae, secundae mensae. They actually had a dessert not nuts so it seems more like the modern concept… However, it is hard to say who first invented a 3 course meal because we don’t know a lot about ancient eating habits (people write about wars not what they had for breakfast…)

Crystal glasses – I wikipedia’d this one: “Glasses with lead oxide content first appeared in Mesopotamia, the birthplace of the glass industry. The earliest known example is a blue glass fragment from Nippur dated to 1400 BC”

Carpets – I’m sure people had goddamn carpets before the 600´s but let me give you my favourite example, about an event that happened in the 400s bc, written in the 200s AD (Diogenes Laertius, “Life of the Eminent Philosophers”) : Diogenes the Cynic once saw Plato having his carpets cleaned for a party he was having. Diogenes immediately ran into Plato’s house and stomped all over his carpets, covering them with dirt and dust, saying “I stomp upon Plato’s vanity.” To which Plato replied, “how proud you reveal yourself to be while pretending not to be proud!” I think there is a moral in this for you, OP.

Checks - No. Praescriptiones, similar to checks, were used by the Romans.

Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen – Are you kidding???

University – the first “university” was Plato’s Academy. Then Aristotle’s Lyceum. There was a Platonic Academy in Alexandria, too.

Optics - This is starting to get sad/boring. The Egyptians and the Greeks studied optics.

Music – Absolutely not. The Ancient Greeks had music. Here’s a link to some of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7jvHI2kU4 It was extremely formalised and used for tragedy, the effect was comparable to modern opera. There is a children’s movie called Donald Duck in Math Magicland where Donald Duck goes to Ancient Greece and listens to music. I recommend it to you highly.

Toothbrush – Again, thanks Wikipedia: “The first bristle toothbrush, resembling the modern toothbrush, was found in China during the Tang Dynasty (619–907) and used hog bristle.”

Hospitals - The first “hospitals” were in Ancient Greece, temples to the god of healing Asclepius. The Egyptians did something similar as well.

Bathing – Really? No one bathed before 600 AD? I can’t.

Quilting – “The earliest known quilted garment is depicted on the carved ivory figure of a Pharaoh of the Egyptian First Dynasty, about 3400 B.C.”

Mariner’s Compass – a numer of countries had compasses before the magnetic compass. The magnetic compass comes to us either form the Chinese or the Muslums.

Soft drinks – Carbonated water is naturally produced. The English were the first to copy it.

Pendulum – Again, not a science person, so wikipedia helped: “One of the earliest known uses of a pendulum was a 1st-century seismometer device of Han Dynasty Chinese scientist Zhang Heng.”

Braille– Louis Braille, the Muslim.

Cosmetics – from the dawn of time, women have wanted to look prettier; the muslims have no monopoly on this. Have you ever even seen one of those ancient egyptian ladies with the winged eyeliner? Come on.

Plastic surgery: “Treatments for the plastic repair of a broken nose are first mentioned in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, a transcription of an Ancient Egyptian medical text, some of the oldest known surgical treatise, dated to the Old Kingdom from 3000 to 2500 BC”

Calligraphy - everyone has fancy writing. The Muslims did particularly well in this area, but so did the Chinese and the Europeans.

Manufacturing of paper and cloth – Okay, no one had clothes before the muslims. No one wrote on paper. Gotcha.

I’m fine if you want to celebrate things that Muslims contributed to the world but I’m afraid that you aren’t allowed to rewrite history to fulfil your own agenda.

valentine--heart

Op is erasing the accomplishments of cultures who existed before Islam by thousands of years . They’re lying through their teeth and taking advantage of conquered indigenous people that Muslims took advantage of and went ,“ neat that’s mine now ”

emeraldmercury

Here it is!

If the KKK invented some shit it still wouldn't mean that their ideology was any good.

Thinking About Korra

Having rewatched most of the first season now, I’ve been mulling something over. I’m aware a lot of people dislike Korra, regardless of the stories or plots. Now, I’m not saying this applies to everyone who dislikes Korra, not at all, but I wonder if it fits into a theory I’ve mentioned in the past.

Its because Korra is a woman. And no, this doesn’t have to do with misogyny or disliking women or anything like that. It stems from something else.

Korra starts out as somebody who, while wanting to do good, is also egotistical, thuggish and self centered. For every good thing she does, she messes up something else. Her anger gets the best of her, she’s easily manipulated and she’s socially awkward.

Additionally, Korra fails. Against nearly every enemy she faces, she’s entirely outmatched. She gets beaten by Tarrlok, Amon, Unaloq, Zaheer and Kuvira. Often, she only wins with the aid of another. In the end of Season 3, she’s left crippled emotionally and physically. She’s frequently put into positions of weakness.

In short. Korra embodies everything we’re not used in media. Korra is the hero but she’s deeply flawed, with major negative traits. She’s consistently shown up, consistently making bad decisions, and often put into positions of pain and suffering.

Consider if Korra was male. We KNOW there are male characters who display several traits like this. From the past Avatar series we have Zuko. From a more modern example, we have Bakugo from My Hero Acadamia. There are people who like both, despite them being jerks and taking multiple seasons to get through their character development.

Its just the concept of a female character who has the faults of a man, who goes through the same kind of struggle as a male character, that is foreign to us. Most media nowadays has women be able to face down and beat foes well outside their weight class. We see female characters who are entirely capable. We have female protagonists who, regardless of how snarky they are, are usually universally, respected or deferred to in their series.

Korra isn’t a damsel either. She actually suffers and the audience is shown it. She’s put into an intimately deadly situation with Amon early in Season 1. We see her poisoned and dying in Season 3. We see her suffer an emotional breakdown in Season 3 and 4. Damsels don’t suffer like that typically, we don’t see women tortured on screen much, if at all.

I have to wonder is some of the dislike for Korra, for SOME (not all) people is rooted in the simple fact that Korra is depicted as the antithesis of the modern ‘women are wonderful’ media narrative we have had going for so long. Its an alien concept in TV, let alone a children’s cartoon.

I do agree that we don't generally see those things in female characters. I ask someone why they didn't like the latest tumb raider and they said they found it too brutal because the main character is a woman. So there is a social taboo of sorts when it comes to women placed in such situations.

As for why I don't like Korra personally; she bases her identity and value as a person on her identity as the Avitar. A lot of her ego around this leads her to the situations that ultimately end up tearing her down, and while it's been a while since I've seen the series, if I remember correctly she never really grew away from that. I don't hate the series or anything, but I felt like her character didn't really go through the kind of growth or development that similar male characters went through, thus I can see why people might find her less likable.

although apparently being vegan is cringe too lmfao

klubbhead

That and the fact you gotta list all your disabilities in your header but hey, water IS wet.

Have a steak.

I list them because at one point this was a support blog for those with similar disorders also ur gf lists she’s anorexic in her title so what u gon do???

I’m not anorexic. I’ve been recovered for years. Please get it right or don’t involve me at all.

Okay u still list it…. It’s a mental disorder just like bipolar I could say I’m in recovery right now does that suddenly mean I no longer identify as being bipolar nope I don’t think so! If ur bf wants to make fun of me for being open about mental illness so be it but it only makes him look like the ass considering I added that description during my event mental health awareness week back when I was a support blog for those with similar disorders I didn’t remove them when I changed my url because I wanted to find others going thru similar situations but yh it’s totally k to act like its the worst thing ever to list ur disabilities or talk about them

Listen, this is a thing between you and him, not me. I don’t care what you have going on. I’m just saying get it right or dont involve me because it’s a pretty huge difference. Thanks.

Lol if you say so I can tell by ur pics u have more than recovered hahaha

You just said Klubb was wrong for poking fun at you listing your mental illnesses in your bio but then you make fun of someone’s weight for recovering from an eating disorder. My goodness, hun, you’re not very smart.

I thought if ur gonna defend him then it’s open season honey lmfao klubbhead is an idiot and ur defending him so u deserve everything u get

donutdog7-deactivated20200714

All I said was that this was between you and him but to please get my information correct.

“I don’t like your boyfriend so I get to make fun of your weight.”

Imagine claiming you care about mental illness and then trying to “trigger” someone with a past eating disorder. lol You’re trash, babe.

“Don’t involve me in your petty argument.”

“Since your defending him your fat and need to lose weight.”

It’s too early in the morning for this foolishness

papayapom

yikes OP is a class A cunt

plebcomics

I feel like there exists other instances of this kind of special bullshit, and I wanna make a comic about it. Who’s got some more sources?

papayapom

check her entire blog right now

plebcomics

I meant sources from other people, if there exists any.

Not that I’m above cherry picking only the hottest corn kernels from the steamiest turds, but it’s funnier when I can quote multiple people doing the same stupid shit.

Who the crap 'identifies' as having a mental disorder. You either have it or you don't. People don't 'identity' as having cancer.

struggletoast

sushinfood

you found him and he is proud of you

coconabe

Unmute please!

razzlleberry

I just took this quiz to find out what Shakespeare archetype i am

I got “The girl who’s always disguising herself as a boy for some reason” and im LAUGHING so hard it’s so real

sindri42

Powerful Queen. “Perhaps you are Titania, fairy queen of the forest. Or maybe you’re Cleopatra, clever queen of Egypt. Possibly you’re Lady Macbeth, who becomes queen of Scotland in the fullness of time. The point is there are many ways to be a queen, and whether you live or die depends entirely on how many murders you committed, oversaw, or actively encouraged during your reign. (Unless you are Anne Boleyn, in which case good luck with that.)”

morguebat

Flawed hero: You are the hero of this play called life, but you are plagued by inner demons and glaring personality flaws. You are the Romeo, the Hamlet, the Macbeth, the Othello. You’re a good person, mostly, but you’re also impulsive, or vengeful, or ambitious, or jealous and easily tricked by dubious ensigns. You will make one mistake, and then also like twelve more mistakes just to bring it all home, and then? Well, then you will die. (But that’s just the worst-case scenario.)

I also got flawed hero

boobasprite

sir-thursday

Sir that is too big a bite

x-file

Don’t tell him what to do

sir-thursday

He is causing a scene