Two years ago, one day I was having dinner with a friend at a restaurant and he wanted to go to the bathroom, but the men’s room was always occupied. So he asked the waiter if he could go to the women’s room. waiter hesitated for a moment and looked embarrassed. I jokingly asked the waiter, “How do you know he is a man? The waiter laughed at that and then said to my friend, “No problem, you can go.”
I don’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing, it was just a joke at the Time and I didn’t think it would have that effect.
One of the first executive orders that Biden signed after he became president included a gender equity order. It was for schools. It mandated that all schools must treat a student according to his or her self-identified gender. For example, if a student who appears to be biologically male identifies himself as a girl, the school must allow “her” to do several things, including play on a girls’ sports team, go to the bathroom in the girls’ bathroom, or go to the women’s locker room to shower or change clothes. Conversely, if a student who appears to be female identifies herself as a male, the same is true.
This policy, was introduced by Obama four years ago. It caused a lot of controversy then, Trump (Trump) later canceled it, and now the first thing Biden will do when he takes office is to revert to what was done back then.
This gender identity discrepancy is now considered a gender minority in the United States. Because most people, who look like boys, also think of themselves as boys, and most people who look like girls also think of themselves as girls. So those who feel they are of a different gender are said to be a sexual minority.
To be honest, this kind of sexual minority is not something that just appeared now, nor is it only in the West. There have been many such characters in ancient China, and human societies have never had them. From the modern society, the trend of human civilization becoming more and more tolerant, I agree that they should not be discriminated. But at the same time, I do not agree that the feelings and even the rights of others should be disregarded for the sake of a few people.
Moreover, this policy of Biden may bring other problems.
How many kinds of gender minorities, for example, are there? Besides men who think they are women, and women who think they are men, there are actually many other kinds. One very extreme survey says that there are more than thirty types of sexual minorities. Thirty kinds of gender, I am unable to understand and wonder what other kinds there are. It is said that some people’s self-gender identity changes, at different times of the year. This can be troublesome. Should this person go to the men’s locker room or the women’s locker room?
This policy, of course, may pose additional problems. Because the presidential decree states that such students, can go to different gender sports teams according to their gender identity, and the school must not interfere and must accept it, while schools everywhere, including college scholarships, must not discriminate and must treat them equally.
So there is speculation that in the end all female teams, including women’s basketball, women’s soccer or women’s track and field teams, may be composed of students who self-identify as girls, but are biologically male.
As we all know, students with athletic merit are given priority admissions and scholarships to college. This is a shortcut to college for many children from poor families in the U.S. Now with the new policy, is there an additional way? A student who appears to be a boy, because he thinks he is actually a girl, can go to the women’s soccer team and then get a scholarship to college because of the physical advantage. Does this not constitute an injustice to those girls who are actually girls?
If this kind of thing happens, I suspect that in a few years the number of Americans competing in the Olympics and the number of women winning medals will be massively reduced. What the reason is, you can analyze it for yourself.
There are many more similar reforms by the American left in Education.
Recently, the Oregon Department of Education launched a “Fair Math” instructional guide for all secondary school teachers. The 82-page guide aims to break down racism in mathematics, primarily by breaking down the “white supremacy Culture. This is a bit strange. It is easy to understand the residue of racial culture in literature, sociology, and history, but what is “white supremacy” in mathematics?
The guidance says that “accurate mathematics is a racist component of white supremacy culture,” and that white supremacy is reflected in the search for the right answer.
Also, the guidance says that “focusing on getting the right answer” and “requiring students to show homework” are seen as ways in which white supremacy “permeates the math classroom.
The toolkit reads, “The notion that mathematics is purely objective is undoubtedly false, and teaching is even less objective. The insistence that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates objectivity and the fear of open conflict.”
So what? Kids should find the wrong answers when learning math? I honestly consider myself to be very tolerant and definitely support racial equality, but I just can’t understand what this Oregon guidance for teaching math really means.
The Oregon Department of Education’s guidelines also provide a teacher workbook for “dismantling racism” that encourages teachers to “come up with at least two answers to the problem” rather than focusing on one correct answer.
How can you have two answers to a math problem? The beauty of mathematics lies in its impartiality and objectivity, in the fact that mathematics itself is not biased and does not produce different results because of the color of your skin. But according to this Oregon guidance, a math problem with only one answer is racist or white supremacist.
The guidance trains teachers to “challenge standardized test questions by getting the so-called ‘right’ answer, and justify other answers by solving the assumptions made in the problem.”
Does reading this raise a lot of questions for the reader? Some Chinese online have explained: In future math tests, you can’t ask what 1 plus 1 equals. You can only ask, “1 plus 1, what do you “think” equals? And, what is your race? If a minority answers: 1 plus 1 equals 3, the teacher will comment: very original, revolutionary and critical, full marks.
The toolkit also encourages teachers to adopt “central ethnomathematics,” specifically including various guidelines, one of which instructs educators to “identify and challenge the ways in which mathematics is used to defend capitalist, imperialist, and racist perspectives.
In George Orwell’s 1984, there is also the famous mathematical question, what does 2 plus 2 equal? One of the ways in which Winston was trained repeatedly in prison after the dictatorial authorities took him into custody was to ask him what 2 plus 2 equals? He was not released until he came up with what the people who trained him said, 2+2=5, and finally let him out. Of course, it doesn’t matter how much 2 plus 2 equals, the key is that the individual in society cannot doubt the power and must believe it wholeheartedly. So the real correct answer is that 2 plus 2 equals whatever the highest person in power believes the outcome to be.
The Oregon Department of Education is not whimsical in their own way; the American mathematical community has believed that traditional mathematical expression and mathematics teaching, are tools of racism and white supremacy for some time now. Not all of the math community, of course, but just some of them.
CNN publicly called “math racist” in 2016, and in 2017 two national math teachers’ associations issued a joint report arguing that math education in the United States is “institutionalized discrimination,” saying that standardized test scores in math discourage certain ethnicities and groups from taking math. The report argued that standardized test scores in mathematics prevent students of certain ethnicities, genders and classes from learning high-end mathematics, “creating social inequality” and “should be adjusted for students’ ethnicity and other backgrounds.
An article on the website of Packer University College in Brooklyn, New York, December 2020, is “Building an Anti-Racism Math Curriculum.
The story was also reported on Fox News. The report says that in the “Eliminating Racism” handbook issued by the Oregon Department of Education, it states that “only white people can be racist in our society because only white people have racial power. So, like us Chinese, we are not racist.
The left in the U.S. is particularly uncomfortable with Chinese because they usually talk about how minorities experience inequality, and if they are oppressed by white supremacy and racism, the proof is that minorities in the U.S. have low incomes. But the Chinese can disprove this claim. Chinese, or Asians, I guess, are minorities in America, but earn more than whites, or about the same. So the Asian community, including the Chinese, has become the enemy of the American left.
It’s not nonsense, it’s really the enemy. Last year a Japanese reporter went to Seattle to interview the Antifa autonomous community and got beaten up because he was Asian and bourgeois. Recently there were left-wing corporate job ads that directly named no Asians. Then there was San Francisco, where a 90-year-old Asian man was pushed down in the street for no reason, sparking huge public concern.
In fact, for the left, race is just a tool.
Fox noted one thing when it reported on this incident in the Oregon Department of Education. In teaching math, teachers should justify anti-police sentiment. It writes, “In some cases, the prejudice of the oppressed (you can’t trust the police) is necessary for survival.” And this guidance, too, takes a resolutely anti-capitalist tone.
It says, “We cannot eliminate racism in a system that exploits others for personal gain.” “If we are going to eliminate racism, then we must build a movement for economic justice.” And it comes with a chart that is often used by leftist protesters in the U.S. to criticize capitalism and call for significant tax increases on corporations. This guidance also includes frequent quotes from Howard Zinn and Che Guevara. Howard Zinn is a self-proclaimed staunch socialist, while Guevara was a prominent South American communist, a comrade of Castro’s, who was killed for his violent revolution.
The American Thinker, an online political news magazine, published an opinion piece by freelance Writer Andrea Widburg on Feb. 14. In the article, Widburg said three stories emerged in the past week of the left’s handling of education issues. Their belief is that minorities cannot meet basic education standards and that the only way to achieve leftist “equality” is to lower standards or abolish them altogether.
The left seems to have decided that minorities cannot achieve higher levels of education, and therefore would rather “destroy the one ideal school in the area” for the sake of so-called racial equality, Wedberg said.
“Once again, the racism is appalling.” The left never nurtures people, Wedberg said, “they always create ‘equality’ by making fools of everyone. This not only reveals that what the left actually engages in is racism, but it also drastically turns the U.S. teaching system “crummy.” While China is rushing to pursue hard science developments like math and engineering, American students are debating whether 2+2=4 is right and how to compete with China.
It seems to me that this is not a math problem or a race problem, but a communist problem. Mainland Chinese who have gone through the Cultural Revolution should be no stranger to it. In middle school, we had a student essay in that school that was used as a model essay by the teacher, and the only thing in it that was greatly praised by the teacher was one word: dung smells good. Because it was a bourgeois idea to think that dung stinks, and because dung is an important material for agricultural production, the proletariat “should” think that dung smells good, so this student got a very high score.
During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Social Sciences also organized a critique of Einstein and published a special book. Because Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was not in line with Marx’s theory.
In the early 1980s, after the end of the Cultural Revolution, China was still debating whether there was class in Music, whether there was class in beauty and ugliness, whether there was objective right and wrong and truth? As the Oregon State Board of Education said, is there an objective mathematical answer or not? It seems to me that they are really just creating confusion. This is one of the tasks of Marxism, of communism.
That’s what the Communist Manifesto ends with: Communists don’t hide their intentions, they are about the complete overthrow of existing social systems and values through violence.
Those communists in America right now, are doing the same thing.
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