WTF?!? BLM Teacher Says 2+2 Only = 4 Because of “Western Imperialism”

Dennis Olson

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BLM Teacher Says 2+2 Only = 4 Because of “Western Imperialism”

Sorry, what?

Published 1 min ago on 7 July, 2020
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A Black Lives Matter-supporting teacher took to Twitter to assert that 2+2 only = 4 because of “western imperialism.”

Yes, really.

Brittany Marshall’s tweet went viral after she claimed during the course of a discussion about racism, “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”

Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.


Her bizarre statement is yet another example of Intersectionality, the pseudo-intellectual garbage feminist notion taught in all major universities that racism and sexism are prevalent throughout all areas of society and are intertwined.

In this case, Marshall appears to be arguing that maths itself is racist, an argument that has been made by numerous social justice warriors down the years, some of whom question why ‘Western Math’ is in common use and not other methods such as the way Aborigines count (maybe because we’re western and not Aborigine).

The notion that 2+2 might not = 4 is of course lifted from George Orwell’s 1984, when the one party state was able to torture dissidents into believing it could equal 5.


Respondents to the tweet expressed their varied opinions.

“Unfortunately it’s nothing new,” remarked one. “There are videos circulating showing black students promoting to stop science because it represents white supremacy. They would prefer magic and voodoo.”

“Scary thing is, this person is a teacher probably preaching the same nonsense to our children,” said another.

 

Marthanoir

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Josie

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Just curious...if 2+2 only equals 4 because of western imperialism, what does it equal in her world? 5? So since she's a common core graduate, she needs to show her work so I can understand.

Honestly, I thought that math would be one of the those subjects that had no race influences.
 

dawnbringr

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Just curious...if 2+2 only equals 4 because of western imperialism, what does it equal in her world? 5? So since she's a common core graduate, she needs to show her work so I can understand.

Honestly, I thought that math would be one of the those subjects that had no race influences.

2 + 2 = 2 (+) 2... since (+) not be a numbuh, you gots to remoof it.

So you gets 22. 2 + 2 = 22.

Dat's maff.
 

Faroe

Un-spun
Just curious...if 2+2 only equals 4 because of western imperialism, what does it equal in her world? 5? So since she's a common core graduate, she needs to show her work so I can understand.

Honestly, I thought that math would be one of the those subjects that had no race influences.
Depends on the average IQ of the race.
Depends on the average level of emotional maturity.
Depends on the propensity for narcissism, psychopathy, and malicious envy within that race.

Nature/nurture? I think that perennial question has finally been decided - at least if people would stop lying to themselves.
What has been observed can't be un-observed.
 
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The Mountain

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Every culture that has managed to develop complex mathematics will assert that 2+2=4, regardless of how they actually write it. The alternative is to revert to the primitive's "math", which typically has only three values: one, two, and "many". Anything else is nothing more than intellectual iconoclasm nonsense like "2+2=5 if that's what you feel it should be".

ETA: The Hindus knew 2+2=4 long before there was anything you could call "western civilization"
 

Pinecone

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So what/whom does she teach? It's not listed in the article. She lists teacher in her bio, but she also believes 2 + 2 may or not = 4. Maybe she is a "teacher" like Obama was a "Constitutional law professor."
 
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Melodi

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The only way in which math is "cultural" is how it is expressed and not the ultimate outcome - different cultures may have different ways of explaining 2 plus 2 add up to 4, and they might use different "base" counting numbers - the Mayans used base 20 (instead of ten) the Mesopotamians base 6 (hence we have 60 minutes in an hour), but it is still the same ultimate answer.

It doesn't matter if your language expresses it as 2 things plus 2 things equal 6 less than 10 things, that amount is still 4 as a total outcome.

I have dyscalculia and even I can see that!
 

The4Stooges

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This is very scary. To know that someone like this will be teaching our children, especially when they are so young and easily influenced.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
I know I'm going to regret this (since I'm asking Melodi) but why do we have 24 hours in a day?
Easy our time system comes from ancient Mesopotamia (I'll spare you the details) and they worked on base six.

So 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day.

Recent translations of previously untranslated tablets have shown these people also knew advanced calculus previously thought to be invented by the Greeks thousands of years later.

I will stop now - did I do OK Dennis?
 

hammerhead

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Just curious...if 2+2 only equals 4 because of western imperialism, what does it equal in her world? 5? So since she's a common core graduate, she needs to show her work so I can understand.

Honestly, I thought that math would be one of the those subjects that had no race influences.

Yeah, no.

Logic itself is a racist construct favored by Western civilization -- you know, white people. :rolleyes:

So science and math, which are logic based, suck too. It's all about magic and feelz. It's also amazing to see this crap get support anywhere, let alone from a teacher.
 

The Mountain

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The 24-hour thing as I understand it came from Egypt. They did base 10, and had 10 hrs of daylight, 12 hours of night, with 2 twilight hours separating day from night.
 
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