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Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by HideousKojima on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:21AM (#31071014)
I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z."

I could also imagine it being something much more benign. I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not.

Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by capableweb on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:25AM (#31071060)
> I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z."

That does seems a bit unnecessary example since there is high racial tensions and the book is supposed to be about math. You could just use another example in that case. If it was about cases like that, I might just agree with them being rejected.

> I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not.

Agree, seems weird to not show people what the problem was if it's easy to justify. But then again, a lot of judicial, government and politics from America seems weird to me so...

Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by itbeho on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:19PM (#31074445)
Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by ironSkillet on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:15PM (#31075139)
Thank you for this link. I was wondering when someone was going to present some concrete evidence for the "social justice" creep into mathematics curriculum that some people object to.
Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by klyrs on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:46AM (#31072280)
> I could imagine it being something along the lines of

It would be so nice if politicians could show us precisely what they're protecting our children from, so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples.

Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by gruez on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:56AM (#31072427)
>so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples

I don't get it. What's so remarkable about "HideousKojima" (Hideo Kojima?)'s games?

Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by fatcat32594 on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:08PM (#31072604)
"HideousKojima" is just the HN username of the person who wrote the above possible example of what could be in the book
Re:Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race the... by timintheglades on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:54AM (#31123229)