lol. guess you're there: "this isn't happening - and if it is, it always has - and if it hasn't, it was expected and inevitable - and if it wasn't, adaptation alone can deal with it - and if it can't, at least now it's a problem for a future generation and i don't have to be inconvenienced or change anything"

a more intelligent being than you would realise that an increase of such "singular events" makes a trend, and it is EXACTLY what climate scientists warned about, predicted, and explained would happen. you'd have to be incredibly ignorant, ideologically biased, and stubbornly committed to its denial not to acknowledge that.

also, you can stop trying to weasel your way out of your science denial concerning co2. it's a pretty basic principle which explains how greenhouse gases lead to global warming - and just because YOU don't see it (because you don't WANT to, since it goes against the prevailing narrative in your political bubble) doesn't mean it's not a fact. you can't have it both ways, pretend to respect science, and also reject all its findings just because you don't like the conclusion, lol.

absolutely pathetic...

tl;dr

there is no increase of certain events, a lot of issues are caused by bad land management and increasing population

the number of deaths from environmental catastrophe has decreased by like 95% since 1900 or so

so what the hell are we even talking about, earth has never been so safe in history

This post was edited by JohnnyMcCoy on Jul 15 2021 02:15pm

holy mother of idiocy. did you seriously post that thinking it was a good "argument"?!

guess what, FACTS say we have more cars than ever before, yet traffic fatalities are steadily decreasing. guess that means we don't really have more cars, it's all just a lie by big bicycle, to push unnecessary safety features, traffic rules, and urban planning improvements...

you people are borderline insane with your science denial and anti-intellectualism... we have regions experiencing prolonged droughts and famines, flooding, fires, drinking water shortages, increasing extreme weather events all around the globe, new record temperatures almost every single year, and all you can say is "i personally don't believe co2 is responsible for global warming" (even though it's relatively easily understandable science - especially for someone who claims to have a degree) and "fewer people are dying from 'catastophes' than in 1900, so climate change can't possibly be so bad". i'd like to see your source for that btw, see what it counts as climate related 'catastrophe', if it even mentions improvements in prediction methods, regulations, and adaptation, and if it puts the numbers, if they even support your simplistic claim, into perspective. not that it is a good, or even just remotely relevant argument to begin with - just for the lols...

I don't see that as silly at all. I see it as a professional's obligation actually. To educate the public on their field.

Anyone who stresses a need to "decolonialize" mathematics is going to struggle to be taken seriously. I can't even recall being taught math history in math; it did come up in history class and all cultural contributions were noted. As usual, this is a case where bored and otherwise unnecessary administrators are creating a nonexistent problem to solve.

What's more interesting is the end of math streaming. I'm not sure how closely that tracks to advanced placement courses in the US, but the American left has come out guns blazing against AP for similar reasons. If certain ethnicities take greater advantage, it's discriminatory, and therefore needs to stop. At the end of the day, it is about equality of outcome, not of opportunity.

Some, but not all contents of math can be influenced by political processes. They tend to be periphery and irrelevant for any student below the postgrad level though.
Political and cultural factors play a larger role in the didactics of math, like I stressed multiple times. You happy now?

(You really could have taken the high road and admitted that you were wrong on the gist of this debate, rather than clinging to this silly technicality to avoid the L.)




Anyway, like I said: the reasons behind inequalities in math learning are not addressed by the woke focus that Canada's Ministry of Education has outlined as per the OP. Given how badly Asian students wipe the floor with everyone else when it comes to math, including whites, it's really hard to argue that systemic racism or colonial history or an eurocentric culture and learning approach are the root cause of the inequality.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 15 2021 05:46pm

coding/programming is next on the hitlist. if the code fails due to coding error just call it racist

knew what this was before i even clicked gonna ban the black book next at gambling venues

Cool, you've acknowledged that, in principal, mathematics can be influenced by politics.

So now tell me. Do you think it's possible that how math is taught can be influenced by politics? I think the debate over "new math" and common core more than prove that it can be.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Jul 15 2021 07:03pm