Aaaand we're living in 1984. Not the year. The novel.
This lady on Twitter who describes herself in her bio as "she/her, teacher, scholar, social justice change agent, Chicagoan, PhD student, architecture enthusiast, wannabe math person, BLM always..." has gone and fulfilled another George Orwell prophecy.
Miss Marshall really said this:
And her bio really says this:
So for those keeping score at home, we're getting to the point in the postmodern neo-Marxism pandemic in which the simplest math facts you learned in kindergarten are now being called agents of oppression which must be dismantled.
That's right, math is racist.
All of which reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from 1984 (which is one of the greatest novels ever written, for the record):
You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
Here we are, folks. This is reality.
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