Liberal Brooklyn College Professor Says Math Is Racist: ‘2+2=4’ Is ‘White Supremacist Patriarchy’

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Brooklyn College Professor of Math Education Laurie Rubel argued this week on Twitter that basic math is culturally problematic and the mathematical equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.

Rubel’s tweet was retweeted and promoted by several leftist academics at universities and liberal colleges around the nation.

According to a report by Campus Reform, Brooklyn College Professor Laurie Rubel, who teaches math education, tried to make the case this week that basic math is “white supremacist.

Breitbart report: The tweets are part of a larger trend on liberal college campuses by liberal academics, many of whom have started to argue that “objective truth,” including basic math, is a social construct, and therefore racist.

The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. I’m ready to move on with that understanding. Who’s coming with me?” Rubel wrote in a tweet.

Along with the ‘of course math is neutral because 2+2=4’ trope and the related (and creepy) ‘math is pure’ and ‘protect math.’ Reeks of white supremacist patriarchy,” Rubel added. “I’d rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals).”

Several academics from institutions around the nation chimed in. Harvard Ph.D. candidate Kareem Carr suggested that math should be reevaluated because it was primarily developed by white men.

People say it’s subjectivism to ask if math is Western. I don’t get that. It’s an objective fact that some groups were more involved in the creation of modern math than others,” Carr said. “They may have been *trying* to make it objective but it’s not stupid to ask if they actually succeeded!

A few academics have pushed back. James Lindsay, one of the academics behind a series of hoax papers that were published in “social justice” journals, reminded Rubel and her peers that mathematical truths are objective.

It’s certainly the case, and the Woke need to be held firmly to the point, that feats of engineering like space travel and rocketry utterly depend upon accepting stable meanings of mathematical statements like 2+2=4 as objectively true, not mere accidents of culture,” Lindsay tweeted.

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33 Comments

    • More to the point how can anyone that stupid be a Professor? The whole structure of academia reeks of that Movie Brotherhood of the Bell (watch it and tell me i’m wrong)

      • Laurie Rubel isn’t necessarily stupid, she’s obviously a Feminist and very likely Jewish, meaning that she is an evil liar and is deliberately pushing her totalitarian ideology of diversity class supremacy onto students.

        All Feminist claim they want equality, but in reality they demand undue government privileges and entitlements for females.

        All Feminist claim they are independent, but in reality they are highly dependent on a totalitarian government they helped to create.

        All Feminist are liars.

  1. I’d wager that if Laurie Rubel’s paycheck were to use the Diversity-approved math she is advocating, then she might get upset when they define her teacher salary as the number of women raped and sodomized by a Bronx buck before he needs sleep.

    Only NYC can produce the stratospheric level of trashiness displayed by buck toothed Laurie Rubel.

  2. It wasn’t developed by white men .That’s rubbish. Egyptians excelled at it All great buildings were developed from maths and every ancient culture ,before white men,had fantastic architecture.India,South America ,Persia,Babylon,Israel etcetera .Now white people act as if they invented everything but they stole most things ,like algebra from Moslems ,religion from Jews,and doing sums as well that became banking All stolen .

      • What he is saying is correct but I wouldn’t say stolen, just used from other cultures. Some people discovered it sooner. Mathematics is embedded in nature, so it is more correct to say that Man stole it from Nature. Everything we have learned, we have just discovered from Nature and its relationship to the Universe. Nature is very mathematical. For example, the concept of a “right angle” was discovered that lead to the Pythagorean theorem by simply observing nature and our relationship to it. A plumb vertical line and as it intersects the horizon gives you a right angle which lead to man being able to make himself more comfortable on this planet in building shelters. So this lady will have to attack Nature. Nature is filled with Numbers and their relationships. Those that are more observant get the prize.

        • If you follow his comments for a period of time you’ll see what I mean. Most of his comments are nonsensical.

  3. If you are wondering what happened to our country, it’s because people like this are teaching our children and NO ONE was watching!

  4. Must be nice to get paid to come up with these nutty, pie in the sky ideas! She must be a laughing stock outside of her stuffy colleagues unless they too are embarrassed by her mad ravings

  5. Here are some diversity supremacist-approved math test questions that Laurie Rubel created –
    .

    City of New York, Borough of Bronx
    High School Math Proficiency Exam
    Name:____________________ Gang:_________________

    1. Darnel has an AK-47 with a 40-round clip. If he shoots 13 times during
    each drive-by shooting and misses 6 out of 10 shots, how many drive by
    shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
    2. Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine, and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2
    grams to Little Mikey for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the
    balance of cocaine if he does not cut it?
    3. Rufus is pimping 3 girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each
    girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800 per day crack habit?
    4. Dino wants to cut his half-pound of heroin to make a 20% profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
    5. Willis gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy and $100 for a
    4×4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs and 3 4x4s, how many Chevys will he have to
    steal to make $800?
    6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for performing the hit. If his common law wife is spending
    $100 per month, how much will be left when he gets out of prison, and
    how many years will he get for killing the bitch for spending his money?
    7. If the average spray can covers 22 square feet and the average letter
    is 2 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of
    paint?
    8. Hector knocked up 6 of the girls in his gang. There are 27
    girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls has Hector knocked up?

  6. “..math should be reevaluated because it was primarily developed by white men..”.
    Who can say: “What was primarily DEVELOPED by NOT WHITE MEN”?
    And notice, I didn’t ask, WHAT WAS PRIMARILY DEVELOPED by NOT WHITE MAN?
    So, I didn’t give reason to brand me as “racist”.

    But if some idiots will,- I DON’T GIVE A SHIT.

  7. Here’s some ‘arithmetic’ for her right ‘chere: Fugly ratface + NO dick = Shit like this…..

  8. Please don’t tell Professor Rubel about my African-American classmate in high school who tutored me in pre-calculus

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