Jose Vilson
1 min readNov 6, 2017

Two things:

We know it’s not necessarily about studying harder, but also studying smarter. Educators know that students can spend hours looking at a problem and still not get it if the method by which they’re taught does not connect with them.

Secondly, you haven’t made an argument for why math is neutral. If you had studied your comment harder, you’d see what I mean.

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Jose Vilson
Jose Vilson

Written by Jose Vilson

The educator Gotham deserves. Architect for a better future. Speaker, activist, and author. https://thejosevilson.com. IG: @thejosevilson

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Secondly, you haven’t made an argument for why math is neutral. If you had studied your comment harder, you’d see what I mean.

First: you haven’t really made a single argument for why Math was never neutral. SJW and ideological drivel are not real arguments, you know ?

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You haven’t made a single argument why math connects more with you (presumably a black guy) than with me (a white guy).
Do you think I got a boner in school when they told us about the Greeks?
Heck if your argument were correct, then racists would be…

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