Math Suffers from White Supremacy, According to a Bill Gates-Funded Course

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Critical race theory in 2021 is so absurd that if you wrote a novel about it being used as a cultural weapon to destabilize societies it would be rejected. But it's happening and there are no signs of it slowing down yet.

Waiting for a chess competition where the winner doesn’t necessarily/always win. Extrapolating the logic used by the said school, losing at chess doesn’t account for the systemic reasons for which players fail.

> Too often, says the lesson plan, "students have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and if they fail it is their fault." This approach is wrong because it "does not give room for the systemic reasons students fail."

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