{"id":101919,"date":"2020-07-07T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101919"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:11:42","slug":"two-and-two-equals-four-because-of-western-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101919","title":{"rendered":"Two and Two Equals Four Because of Western Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86052\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-86052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921-476x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921-476x333.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When fact, reason, and logic are attacked as &#8220;oppressive concepts&#8221;. (r\/The_Donald\/)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You read that right, we believe that 2 + 2 = 4 because of Western imperialism and colonization. It is cultural, and it appears to be the only way we think of things. This is according to someone that describes herself as a &#8220;PhD student&#8221;. Forget the logic that if you take two marbles, and place them right next to another two marbles, you would have four marbles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Summit News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this case, Marshall appears to be arguing that maths itself is racist, an argument that has been made by numerous social justice warriors down the years, some of whom question why &#8216;Western Math&#8217; is in common use and not other methods such as the way Aborigines count (maybe because we&#8217;re western and not Aborigine).<\/p>\n<p>The notion that 2+2 might not = 4 is of course lifted from George Orwell&#8217;s 1984, when the one party state was able to torture dissidents into believing it could equal 5.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents to the tweet expressed their varied opinions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately it&#8217;s nothing new,&#8221; remarked one. &#8220;There are videos circulating showing black students promoting to stop science because it represents white supremacy. They would prefer magic and voodoo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scary thing is, this person is a teacher probably preaching the same nonsense to our children,&#8221; said another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Summit news has this and other articles <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/07\/07\/blm-teacher-says-22-only-4-because-of-western-imperialism\/\">here<\/a>. Paul Joseph Watson, the author, is among the conservatives that is getting demonetized on YouTube.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">People like this are a reason why there\u2019s a need for written instructions on shampoo bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Also, she\u2019s a teacher. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yDbi3mU9PH\">pic.twitter.com\/yDbi3mU9PH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garbage Human (@GarbyJooman2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarbyJooman2020\/status\/1280462570164383745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You read that right, we believe that 2 + 2 = 4 because of Western imperialism &hellip; <a title=\"Two and Two Equals Four Because of Western Imperialism\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101919\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two and Two Equals Four Because of Western Imperialism<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101922,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101919\/revisions\/101922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}