{"id":229563,"date":"2021-03-15T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229563"},"modified":"2021-03-16T07:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T07:18:45","slug":"would-you-buy-an-automobile-designed-by-a-woke-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229563","title":{"rendered":"Would You Buy an Automobile Designed by a Woke Engineer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Bridge \u2013 Strategic Culture March 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cSometimes 2+2 could equal 5. You know, just like a born male can sometimes suffer menstrual cramps.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the leftwing cancel cult now running amok through the unguarded halls of academia is that highly intelligent people, with absolutely no racial or political ax to grind, are being forced to defend themselves and their respective fields from the most outrageous accusations, time that would be much better spent on valuable research.<\/p>\n

While mathematicians over the millennia have successfully solved some of the most perplexing problems, like the Poincar\u00e9 Conjecture and Fermat\u2019s Last Theorom, they will probably have more difficulty arriving at a solution for appeasing the woke mob now banging on their door.<\/p>\n

Difficult as it may be to fathom, the radical progressive inquisition has a beef with the cloistered community of number crunchers, made up as it is, according to the woke crowd, of closet racists and white supremacists. Needless to say, this latest accusation has sent shockwaves through the academic community.<\/p>\n

This month, Sergiu Klainerman, professor of mathematics at Princeton University,\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0to the journalist Bari Weiss how he has personally witnessed \u201cthe decline of universities and cultural institutions as they have embraced political ideology at the expense of rigorous scholarship.\u201d Klainerman admitted that he had \u201cnaively thought\u201d that the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) would be not be touched by this \u201cideological takeover.\u201d Much to his chagrin, he was mistaken.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was wrong,\u201d he admitted. \u201cAttempts to \u2018deconstruct\u2019 mathematics, deny its objectivity, accuse it of racial bias, and infuse it with political ideology have become more and more common \u2014 perhaps, even, at your child\u2019s elementary school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story gets better. As an \u00e9migr\u00e9 of the formerly communist regime of Romania, Klainerman makes an observation that should give any freedom-loving American tremendous pause. The former denizens of the totalitarian Soviet state, he explained, viewed the field of mathematics as \u201ca great equalizer: those from socioeconomically disadvantaged families had a chance to compete on equal footing with those from privileged ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMathematics also granted me an escape from the intoxicating daily drum of party propaganda \u2014\u00a0a refuge from the crushing atmosphere of political and ideological conformity<\/em>\u00a0[italics added].\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Klainerman\u2019s dramatic life has come full circle as he finds himself struggling against a different sort of oppression, that is, the cancel cult \u2013 what some have called \u2018Cultural Marxism\u2019 \u2013 that has descended on college campuses around the country like a brain fog. It\u2019s not communist theory, however, which is promulgating the lie of racism inside of the mathematic disciplines, but rather one of the wealthiest capitalists of our time, Bill Gates.<\/p>\n

Klainerman takes issue with a shocking\u00a0document<\/a>\u00a0financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and endorsed by various State of California educational entities, entitled, \u2018A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.\u2019 The very first paragraph gives away the entire scheming plot:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis tool provides teachers an opportunity to examine their actions, beliefs, and values around teaching mathematics. The framework for deconstructing racism in mathematics offers essential characteristics of antiracist math educators and critical approaches to dismantling white supremacy in math classrooms by visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture.\u201d [This opening paragraph provides a citation to a 2001\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0entitled, \u2018White Supremacy Culture,\u2019 yet that document fails to mention either the study of mathematics, or the university setting where such implied racism is said to occur. In other words, \u201cracism in mathematics\u201d is\u00a0a priori<\/em>\u00a0accepted as fact].<\/p>\n

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Political correctness. pic.twitter.com\/9scWze34uD<\/a><\/p>\n

— James Lindsay, top expert in sexiness (@ConceptualJames) March 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n