* Essentially, evidence is racist.
* Everyone knows that math was invented by black Africans in Egypt, who used it to build pyramids and airplanes. But then jealous whites took the math from these people, and turned it against them to do great evil.
* As a headline, it sounds ludicrous but there is a germ of truth to the claim that math is racist. The broader issue is that there is a war on stupid people (see the July/August edition of the Atlantic).
As proficiency in math becomes more important to the ability to function successfully in society, stupid people become more and more disadvantaged. So math is discriminatory in its effect. But it’s not kind to imply that one particular race is bad at math or plain stupid.
* This really goes to show the two sides to the great ideological divide in America. Algorithms that give good credit card offers to people in nice neighborhoods with good credit scores do not discriminate against anyone by race who has a good credit score and lives in a nice neighborhood. Most Americans would not call a computer that puts a few numbers together to determine if you get a credit card racist.
But believers of “desperate impact” theory have a much wider definition of racism that logically includes pretty much every American business and many other institutions.
Desperate impact, however, has now fully taken over the national Democratic party, universities, and liberal newspapers. This, in turn, means that white-run corporations that favor or need to stay in the good graces of Democrats must continuously apologize for their racism and promise a plan to stop in the future. Since you can’t run a private business in the United States without desperate impact, the plans must be insincere or ineffective.
Since this whole process is humiliating, akin to a more comfortable version of a Maoist self-criticism session, I think that Democrats may soon fall below the 36% of the white vote they need to win the presidency. Trump may not be the man to do this, as voting for an erratic reality TV show character for President of the United States involves a certain humiliation of its own.
* Her website is “mathbabe.com” – some might consider that an overly generous self-assessment.
* How could math be Eurocentric when its best practitioners are East Asians?
Once you could accuse banks of being racist for not giving loans to dark skinned persons. Now banks, using math, judge the creditworthiness of a person without having to looking at his face. The math they use is racist. Math in general is racist.
* I know about Terence Tao, and see a fair number of East Asian names in the faculty listings of Math departments at our best universities, but have East Asians largely displaced Whites in the extreme reaches of the right-tail of working mathematicians?
The high school level Math Olympiads are certainly dominated by ̶E̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶A̶s̶i̶a̶n̶s̶ ̶ Chinese of late, but I don’t see similar effects in the Fields Medal list or the Abel Prize list yet. Of course, it is logical to expect a latency of two or more decades between the leading and lagging indicators of who the “best” practitioners are.
* I watch too much TV and too many movies. Blacks, especially, already matriculate at Stanford and MIT and occupy a lot of STEM and senior IT positions. Otherwise, they could not come up with the “save the day” orbital mechanics and other technical solutions that brought Mark Whitney (The Martian) home safely from Mars.
Also, from TV commercials, I notice the large number of Black professionals that live in very comfortable “McMansions” in the suburbs (let’s say, 50% of the people featured in the adds). Their life styles are stunning. I can’t afford to live in those homes on my $200k+ income.
I wonder if this counter-factual hype isn’t partially responsible for “Blacks behaving badly” in places like Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee. You see, Blacks allegedly watch more TV than White folks. From TV, they know how many highly-educated Blacks have already made it to the big time in the upper middle class. They want to know why they failed the measure. It’s clear: WHITE RACISM again … someone is holding them back and taking their share. They do the only reasonable thing. They RIOT in the hope that major, community-wide tantrums will finally get someone’s attention and get them their share of the good life that they see on TV and in the movies.
* I just happened to catch a minute or two of this woman being interviewed on CNBC yesterday. Her hair was dyed social justice pink for the occasion. So there’s that.
