I'm sorry, but as a Florida public school parent, I feel as though I must share this:

[Tommy Carcetti]

This absolutely and positively was in my children's elementary school math book, believe me and trust me because naturally you just should do that on the internet:

"Johnny--who believes that race is a social construct which historically has been used by governing powers to create an artificial hierarchy in society based solely on that race--has three apples. Kenny, who believes that the idea of "color-blindness"--while perhaps well-intentioned--has been too often been co-opted as an excuse for modern-day authorities to refuse to address historical racial injustices of the past, has two apples. How many apples would Johnny and Kenny have if they put their apples together and both agree that dominant racial groups have subconsciously created their own reality when it comes to race relations and thus are stifled in making any significant moves towards racial equity, which means racial groups are given the necessary means in order to achieve a more equal society (not to be confused with racial equality, which is merely a superficial equal distribution of such means regardless of the specified needs of any one particular group)?"

I'm sorry, but this is just not cool. Not cool at all.





(Do I even need the here?)

[exboyfil]

1. Careful with that sarcasm

Some right winger will take it and run with it.

[Towlie]

2. Careful, you could be responsible for a bogus but viral quote that could spread like wildfire.

 
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(Missed it by one minute.)

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Not to worry!!!!

That would require more reading than the average teenager does anymore - unless it's on a 'phone' screen!

[RobinA]

10. My Thought Exactly

The average winger wouldn't get through the first sentence. And I mean the adults.

[Towlie]

4. Seriously, how could a math textbook contain anything a right-winger could credibly object to?

 
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I want to see the textbook contents that they're objecting to. I'll bet they're even funnier than the parody that Tommy Carcetti posted above.

[Tommy Carcetti]

5. Well, they do contain scary Arabic numerals.

Could be terrorism indoctrination.

[perfessor]

7. Exactly - the proverbial

“Weapons of Math Instruction”

[KS Toronado]

24. LOL

[MyOwnPeace]

30. Double on the "LOL".........

and 'Welcome' to DU! (looks like you'll fit right in - well, forget the 'right' part, but you know what I mean!)

[Celerity]

36. Works better if you you use our British 'maths' instead of math

Weapons of Maths Destruction

lol

[sdfernando]

20. Yeah...time to go back to "Roman" numerals...because you know...White and all..

Could be very confusing:

XIV - III = (OK..this ain't so bad)
XIV X III = ( so is that multiply or add 14 10 and 3)

How do you do fractions? Polynomials???

[wnylib]

23. 15? Isn't XIV 14?

[sdfernando]

25. Yes you are correct...see how confusing it is! /NT :)

[wnylib]

27. I hate seeing Roman numerals on the

copyright page of books, and in crossword puzzles. I get completely lost once the numbers get into C, L, and M.

[mrsadm]

26. An abacus should easily solve that problem

Oh but oops, it's Asian

[wnylib]

28. Besides, you can't write in abacus.

[yardwork]

32. And Geometry! I mean, wasn't Pythagoras Greek?

Weren't the ancient Greeks all gay? I mean, how is this Christian?!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Where's the gay part? I came here for the gay part. NT

[Tommy Carcetti]

8. Johnny and Kenny are a gay married couple.

Duh. Read between the lines.

[MyOwnPeace]

31. You must 'forgive'.......

Not everybody can 'read' RepubliQan........ but a special 'decoder' ring is for sale at 'tRump.scam'

[Towlie]

9. It's been suggested in other threads that the problem is the equal signs.

 
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[sop]

15. Replace them with ≠, that should satisfy the racists.

[sanatanadharma]

11. They'd have five apples

Five apples, two headaches, and three to eight friends with whom to share apple halves.

And one fired math teacher.

[MissMillie]

12. How many of the apples were really apples, and not oranges identifying as apples? (n/t)

.

[hedda_foil]

13. Good catch!

[Lucky Luciano]

14. Bottom line. The textbooks have too many equals signs.

[IronLionZion]

16. Well, it didn't say gay

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. I'm not sure about the use of "subconsciously," but it's a great piece.

[packman]

18. I live in Florida Panhandle, and , yes the wingers do REALLY believe this is in the math books

[txwhitedove]

19. True tale: I was raptly reading this post, when phone rang. " Hello, this is Wanda and

I want to share with you a passage from the Bible....". Excuse me, what are you calling about? Wanda repeated. I said no thank you out and hung up. I could have shared your post to see what she thought, but love my DUers too much to get that fight started. Did Jesus tell her to call me?

[Frostlight]

34. Minor missed opportunity.

Personally, I try to plant doubt and make them face their own insanity at every chance, but it's not obligatory.

[txwhitedove]

35. Hi, Frostlight. Welcome to o DU. Actually thought I heard a crying baby and Wanda

sounded tired, so not a good day to mess with Wanda.

[blueinredohio]

21. Wow, I never had any math problems like that in my math book.

[Frostlight]

22. They will BELIEVE this.

In all seriousness, if you wanted to troll them with something like this, you could, easily. The problem is that they'll spread it far and wide as 'proof' that 'Critical Race Theory' is being taught to children.

These are fundamentally stupid people we're talking about here.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

40. Repubquanons

Project like crazy. The crt bullshit is more of the same.

They accuse Dems of exactly what they are doing.

Just like pooty does.

Projecting dark triad losers strike again

[Frostlight]

42. Well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes...

I'll message you as soon as I'm able.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

43. Ok.

Look forward to your messages.

[Frostlight]

44. I have to work up a few posts. lel.

Hint: Discussions on Human Superconscious Theory. Probably been 8 years or so. You said one of the most interesting things about why it is that the 'predominant/mundane' world of consciousness rejects us.

[Warpy]

29. HAHAHAHAHA!! Elementary school book?

And people honestly believe that convoluted crap is in there?

Every time I think Republicans have come up with the dumbest thing ever, they just keep talking.

[NCjack]

33. The teacher observes Johnny placing 3 white apples in his basket,

and Kenny placing 2 black apples in the same basket. Both students report their results of adding the apples in the basket -- both report that the sum = 5. However, the teacher, as required by Florida State Law, must notify the Governor that Kenny willfully added black apples to the white ones in Johnny's basket. Also, both students will get an "F" for this exercise, since in Florida the answer is the sum = 3 apples (the white ones), since black apples are not counted in Florida.

[eppur_se_muova]

37. Bottom line for this lesson: the majority of apples are NON-WHITE !

Vive la diversité!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

41. Wow

Never saw the black and white apples before. Now I wanna try. All the apple colors.

[robbob]

38. Ok ok; I know we're all having fun with this absurd situation...

But I really want to know WHAT, exactly, is in those textbooks! I searched high and low on this and every story (CNN, The Guardian, etc.) have the same story we already know; insane Florida law pulls numerous math text books from the curriculum, and, in spite of claims of “transparency”, they refuse to specify what the offending material is.

I think they need to be pressed into showing exactly what they object to. Why? Well, for one thing, there has to be SOMETHING there. They can’t just randomly pick out books to ban. Because some publisher forgot to grease their palms?

But more importantly; they deliberately want to leave it vague and “scary”. “CRT”! “Woke culture!”!!! “Brainwashing/grooming children”!!! They do this to rile up the base and stir up anger, division and controversy ahead of the next election. If we force them to reveal the offending material I think it’s going to reveal a lot more about who THEY really are.

I’m just guessing here, but I’m thinking maybe illustrations that show white and black kids working together on math problems? Or word problems that involve characters of different ethnic backgrounds? You know, inclusiveness? Make them show us the “offending material” so we can see what real racist snowflakes they actually are.

[ThoughtCriminal]

39. If it has taken them this long

I'm pretty sure they have nothing they are willing to share with the public - it will just be too ridiculous and they know it.

I think they will just act outraged until the next distraction.

[ForgedCrank]

45. What could actually be true about this is that

it was probably posted by someone on twitter or facebook and a bunch of people believed it.
Now we'll see Ted Cruz hollering about it on TV next week.