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The Counsel of Trent

#356 – Math: Is it real, racist, or a route to God?

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Is 2+2=4 part of an oppressive racist system? Is math even real? And could math be evidence that God exists? Trent answers those questions as he explores recent social media debates about the nature of mathematics.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic answers.

0:10.4

Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them.

0:14.8

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, I'm your host, Cathery Answers Apologist and

0:18.2

Speaker, Trent Horn, and we're in the midst of what some people call the great awokening,

0:23.0

a greater sense of race, consciousness, of awareness, of past injustices, past racial

0:29.3

sins and crimes, as well as the perpetuating effects into the present that causes harm

0:34.8

to minority communities.

0:36.6

That's all good, that's something good to be aware of when it comes to combating social

0:39.8

injustice.

0:41.0

What's not good is saying that everything under the sun is racist, everybody is racist,

0:45.8

and everything is racist.

0:47.5

Well, I've been noticing the chatter on social media over the past few months, and it

0:51.5

turns out that math is racist.

0:54.2

For example, in Seattle, of course, it's Seattle, right?

0:56.6

I'm sure they came up with this stuff in the Capitol Hill Occupied Zone chop.

1:00.7

You remember that?

1:02.2

It says in this article that the curriculum and the Seattle schools is going to be modified

1:07.3

so that it's more race conscious, and this is all the curriculum, not just what you would

1:10.9

expect, maybe in like social studies or history class or maybe in English, but in all of them.

1:16.6

Even in subjects that have absolutely nothing to do with race relations or ethics or public

1:21.7

policy, like take math, take algebra one, algebra two, you just have students were trying to

1:27.0

wrap their heads around difficult concepts.

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