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In case you're genuinely asking, the answer is yes and I don't know why it wouldn't be. There are so many reasons that a high school math team would only be fil

by xmprt 6y ago

In case you're genuinely asking, the answer is yes and I don't know why it wouldn't be. There are so many reasons that a high school math team would only be filled with Asians and white males and "because there's a lack of qualified minorities" is at the bottom of that list. Maybe there aren't enough minority students encouraged to engage in STEM activities or maybe toxic people like you make them uninterested.

darepublic 6y ago
I remember in high school my mom forcing me to join the math club, as she knew the teacher there. There were mostly Asians there. I don't think you could have paid most kids to be on that most unpopular of clubs. I stayed for as long as I had to in order to please Mom, then bounced. Other kids, if they were popular, were probably having a much more enjoyable high school experience -- a lot more black kids were in this 'popular' social group than in math club-- guess what -- completely by choice! And guess who I envied more and was denied entrance to -- yes the cream of the social crop. I guess you would like to find those Asians who just happened to like math for some nerdy reason, strip them of their jobs and give them to whomever you consider to be a minority/victim?
- mjfl 6y ago
  You got downvoted, but it's very clear to me that the reason students avoid math club is because it is unglamorous, not that it is hostile to them.
exolymph 6y ago
So Asians don't count as minorities anymore?
- icelancer 6y ago
  No, Asian-Americans count as minorities when white people want to throw them under the bus (Kung Flu, China Virus) but not when we're talking about unsuccessful-due-to-discrimination minorities, and thus earn the ire of white people that way, too. This way the conservative and liberal prejudiced people can both hate that group equally, and for different reasons.
mjfl 6y ago
I’m just imagining you subjecting my high school math coach to a Maoist-like struggle session now.

by xmprt 6y ago

darepublic 6y ago

I remember in high school my mom forcing me to join the math club, as she knew the teacher there. There were mostly Asians there. I don't think you could have paid most kids to be on that most unpopular of clubs. I stayed for as long as I had to in order to please Mom, then bounced. Other kids, if they were popular, were probably having a much more enjoyable high school experience -- a lot more black kids were in this 'popular' social group than in math club-- guess what -- completely by choice! And guess who I envied more and was denied entrance to -- yes the cream of the social crop. I guess you would like to find those Asians who just happened to like math for some nerdy reason, strip them of their jobs and give them to whomever you consider to be a minority/victim?

mjfl 6y ago
You got downvoted, but it's very clear to me that the reason students avoid math club is because it is unglamorous, not that it is hostile to them.

exolymph 6y ago

So Asians don't count as minorities anymore?

icelancer 6y ago
No, Asian-Americans count as minorities when white people want to throw them under the bus (Kung Flu, China Virus) but not when we're talking about unsuccessful-due-to-discrimination minorities, and thus earn the ire of white people that way, too. This way the conservative and liberal prejudiced people can both hate that group equally, and for different reasons.

mjfl 6y ago

I’m just imagining you subjecting my high school math coach to a Maoist-like struggle session now.