How crazy have education schools gotten? You won't believe...

How crazy are the professors who are teaching the newest generation of teachers?  Take a look:

Rochelle Gutierrez, a math education professor at the University of Illinois, has written a book in which she claims algebra and geometry perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

She goes on to insist that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

“Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?”

Damn, Rochelle, that's a great point!  You really don't need math or algebra or geometry to do things like, oh, building St. Peter's basilica.  You jus' keep puttin' dem rocks on toppa each udder an' don' worry, mon!  We don' need no damn math!  Cuz we's politically correct!
 

Here's Rochelle:

On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.

Gutierrez also claims that merely teaching (she says "emphasizing") ideas like the Pythagorean theorem and pi "perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."

Ah yes, it's all so clear now!  Da eeebil algebra be made up by da White Debbils, so we jus' can't teach it to our precious ninos cuz dat's bowin' to duh white debbil's discovery!  Way better to not teach our ninos math, cuz who needs dat white raaaacis' sheeit anyway?

Rochelle also claims that teaching math to kids actually helps perpetuate white privilege!

If her "reasoning" here seems a bit...fuzzy...you're not alone.  So Rochelle graciously offers to raise your consciousness:  She notes that "our economy" places a premium on math skills--which gives people who can do math well a form of “unearned privilege.”   And of course most of the people who can do math well are...wait for it...disproportionately white!

Jeez, this crap is self-parodying.

Just when you thought she couldn't top her own dumbass thoughts, she asks why math professors get more research grants than social-studies or English professors.  It just ain't right!

Maybe not, but it seems to me that math is one of the basic skills, and that if you can't do math, you probably aren't smart enough to do anything *more* advanced.  I don't think it's unreasonable to be very skeptical about the rest of your intelligence and reasoning ability.  

She worries that inability to master math "can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white counterparts."

See above.  If you can't master math....

“If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned,” she says, adding that there are so many minorities who “have experienced microaggressions from participating in math class… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.”

To fight this, Gutierrez encourages aspiring math teachers to develop a sense of “political conocimiento,” a Spanish phrase for “political knowledge" for teaching.  Oh sure, cuz ya can't understand math unless you put it in a political context.  Absolutely.