Against the background of a large-scale campaign against racism in the US, a new scandal broke out. Oregon released a technique for teachers in which it was recommended to change the approach to teaching mathematics. Local authorities found in the traditional course of algebras the idea of the superiority of the White race. Accurate sciences did not limit himself. With charges in Rasyism, lovers of chess are encountered. Fighters for the rights of dark-skinned saw the problem in the traditional rule "White go first".
Perhaps you are racist if you have no doubt that twice two are four, and five five to twenty five. So consider the creators of the methodology for ethnomatics in Oregon. The usual algebra, they are confident, through racism is saturated, and its requirement of accurate and correct answers is the proof of superiority whites over people with different skin color. That is, even ask the correct answer from the student is discrimination.
The course is still voluntary, the teachers themselves can decide, teach children on him or not, but in some Oregon schools, ethnomatics has already replaced the usual.
Janell Baynam, Democrat, Oregon Congresswume: "I think this is a bold step in the right direction, that's how I call it. And I wonder what will be the results. "
What causes the delight of the left and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, leads to the horror of many ordinary mathematics teachers. Okay, literature and the story with which American Hunveybins have been warming for several years, it is, in the end, humanitarian sciences, there is a place for a dispute, but the algebra is an accurate science. One incorrectly solved equation during design, let's say, at home - and it will collapse, regardless of whether they have a black meaning or not. "
James Lindsey, Mathematics from the USA, a fighter with SJW in science and education: "It is very dangerous. The very idea that the correct answer in the mathematical problem is a manifestation of political power, that it is necessary to challenge and replace something else, is a dangerous thing to teach it to students. So we will create a generation of students who are unable to engage in mathematics and other accurate sciences, who will not be able to think independently and who will eventually pose a threat to our society. "
But threats of threats, and such a program is already working in Seattle. In the schools of California and Vermont, while they look after, take over the experience or not. However, in recent times there are many similar experience in America, there is someone to learn. In the schools of the city of Buffalo (New York), children, for example, are taught that all white is somehow participating in a systematic racism.
In the educational video, schoolchildren show only dark-skinned adolescents who died from the hands of American policemen. White pupils repent not yet asked, but in the curriculum there is a proposal to make the children with bright color skin more active, condemning racism.
Fatima Morell, director of cultural initiatives: "Bias exists, like systemic racism, and we want to designate this problem. When I say it, I mean, so that we all understand how to approach the problems of racism, because we all play some role in this. "
The words "black" and "white" are offered to use with caution or completely refuse them if racial issues are discussed. Get even chess. The phrases like "white begins and won" now for many in America, too, a sign of deeply rooted racism.
For such a "racist" lexicon Youtube recently blocked its most popular chess canal. YouTube has long been following the contents of the algorithm, but they configured it so that racism in no way passed.
Ashik Hudabuchsh, author of the study of Youtube algorithms: "She reacts to the words" black "," white "," threat "in the context of speech. And when she finds a phrase like "Black Queen attacked by a white elephant," she does not focus on the queen or elephant, she looks: so, black attacked white, therefore, we are talking about hatred. "
The chessboard blogger was eventually unlocked, but in the chess community this story did not pass unnoticed. In favor of political trends, the world champion Magnus Carlsen made the first course of black pawn.
Chess, however, will definitely not limit. Classical music, they say, it is all from white. They spoke about antiquity - also solid whiteness, because slaves existed in the Roman Empire. In principle, in search of discrimination, you can enjoy anything. No wonder in America, it is already saying that the White House is not quite politically correct.