(Keeping in mind that "anti-racism" is the most virulent form of racism....)
Seems that part of the purported justification for the current push is that the language of math puts the Intersectional at a cultural disadvantage, and because culture and race are inseparable (I said this was racist, didn't I?) it must therefore be racist.
And what's the language of math? Well! For the New Generation, it's Common Core. Which, as I noted many years ago, hides the actual math behind at least one layer of impenetrable, made-up, baby-talk edu-jargon.
So if kids are having trouble getting past the Common Core jargon to the underlying (objective, culture-independent, race-independent) mathematical principles, it must be the fault of the principles themselves and the white people (and Asians, and Arabs) who derived them, so the principles must be regarded as invalid.
Ergo,
And if you disagree, you're denying my lived experience. Or somebody else's lived experience. Or imagined experience. Or what some guy on the TV told me I experienced.
Afterthought: Back when I noticed the jargon thing? I figured it was (if not merely the result of innumerate, mal-educated, word-salad-oriented education majors setting the agenda) at attempt to reduce inequality by making it difficult for numerate parents to help their kids, inhibiting intergenerational knowledge transfer. In which case, the newly-discovered language barrier to math is the result of the previous generation of Progressive "reform."
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