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I now see how places like San Francisco arrive at delaying algebra until the 9th grade. It isn't that some cultures need to catch up, it's that they must be treated equally, including preventing the dominant culture from enjoying the benefit of their abilities, unless and until their advantage ceases to exist. As if they didn't earn their advantage by they or their ancestors doing the hard work that they eventually passed down to their families.

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I remember the so-called illustrious whites in San Francisco degrading and murdering Chinese immigrants. Here in Georgia, whites went as far as to severe and cook the manhood of Chinese males who competed in the harvesting of gold.

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That social algebra experiment for the last 10 years in the sfusd turned out to be a huge failure. Duh. There is now a concerted effort to reverse it and put advanced math back in 8th grade. Maybe math really isn't racist after all.

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Making everyone dumber is not a great strategy

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Rogers indicates this explicitly in his schtick. Why is anyone still discussing this hack? Critical Theory is absolute garbage, and discussing it an utter waste of neural activity.

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Because there are a substantial number of people in academia and political bureaucracies who subscribe to this idiocy. They needed to be rooted out of positions of influence for the sake of our children and for any chance of a positive future for humanity.

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not all critical theory, people who hate kendi might still like sloterdjk, agamben, even derrida or deleuze. i think kendi is more harvard business school in the 80s than yale english in the 80s...

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Oct 16, 2023·edited Oct 16, 2023

All of it is sociological mumbo-jumbo disguising itself as psuedo-scholarship. Why defend something so caustic?

Poison Ivy does a number on exposing the utter crap put forth by those schools you mention.

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