I’m kind of surprised Republicans are banning math textbooks.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) April 18, 2022
I thought division was their thing.
I have a great idea for a math textbook. Here's a sample problem:
The correct answer, of course is two (though we would award half points for creative answers such as "fifteen, because all of them had illegitimate children being born simultaneously", and "why shoot, just throw one of them a basketball").
The point being, to make it more clear, is that it's a perfectly reasonable math problem for young children to solve. Hell, Sir Humphrey made JoJo's point for her over forty years ago!
The argument that Florida Republicans, or centrist Hacker, or centrist me are making of course is that politicizing math/maths simply shouldn't happen. JoJo's claim that "all math problems are merely math problems" flies in the face of that. On the bright side, she's going to be my first customer for this new math textbook of mine.
Because JoJo has given herself exactly zero reason to oppose teaching my math problem in schools. She wouldn't dream of denying its access to her local schoolhouse because otherwise she's banning math textbooks. And "banning textbooks" is bad, something only ignorant people do in order to "divide others". This is, of course, the typical far-left categorization trick: because you have it in your head that "x is bad" they simply lie and claim "y is x" and therefore "y is bad". At no point do they even pretend that there's a bit of effort into trying to indicate that x and y are separated by a chasm so wide that only a complete retard would consider them even remotely similar.
