This is … a breakdown of the fundamental logic of civilization, which depends entirely on the ability for each citizen to generally understand something of how that civilization operates. Their objectives are purely political: to identify “systems of oppression,” and transfer political power to preferred groups. The wokies are not interested in truth, Lindsay goes on to explain. …the activists are seeking a radical rewriting of the entire rational project, and any reason that doesn’t forward their favored actors as the sole arbiters of what is true and correct needs to be deconstructed by rhetorical tricks and marginalized by moral and, perhaps, physical force and intimidation. To get people to agree that it’s not is disorienting. Lindsay says this is intentional: That 2+2=4 is a simple truth, just like the fact that there are two easily recognizable sexes, male and female, is indisputable common sense. The humanities rely on gathering then interpreting information, whereas mathematicians derive knowledge through deduction, or discovering universal laws under which systems operate. But these methods simply don’t apply to other fields of inquiry (indeed, whether they apply in the humanities is still an open debate). Rather, they are saying that 2+2 can sometimes be construed as equaling four, so who is to judge?Īs one observer noted, they are deconstructing math here or using the methods of post-modernism developed for humanities. Yet this is not the point Carr and the rest of the woke math team want to advance. Truly showing that 2+2=5 means that 2+2 is not 4. A theorem is proven wrong if we find a set of values for which it doesn’t hold. Carr might as well say that an airline offered a discounted $500 ticket for $400, thereby confirming that 200+200=500.Ĭarr should know better. The second example confuses prices with distances.
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Yet mathematical notations have the language to express errors and approximations, and it’s not “equal to.” In the first instance, Carr proves that 2+2=5 when one makes a measuring error, then rounds up. Is it possible that flying from airport A to B is $200 and B to C is $200 but flight from A to C is $500 … happens all the time. Imagine computing distances between airports on cost. Again pretty normal to have error in measurements in normal life. So 2 could mean 1.5 to 2.4 … 2.4 + 2.4 is 4.8 … in our theoretical system, this would look like 2+2=5. Imagine a system where we can only measure things to 1 decimal place. Again pretty normal to have an error in measurements in normal life.”
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statistics student at Harvard University He offered several examples of situations in which he claimed 2+2=5, including: “Imagine a system where we can only measure things to 1 decimal place.
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One of these was Kareem Carr who, according to his profile, is a Ph.D. They attempted to prove that in certain instances two and two equal five. Hannah-Jones’s response energized Twitterati who mostly appear to be employed in education bureaucracies. Referring to George Orwell’s 1984, and poking fun of wokesterism, Lindsay quipped: “2+2=4: A perspective in white, Western mathematics that marginalizes other possible values.” T appears someone put this Woke Mini into the employ of satirically replying to Nikole Hannah-Jones on the fifth of July in response to her tweeting, ‘I wonder if folks always talking about ‘standards’ ever stop to consider that it’s their so-called standards that are the actual problem.’ Hannah-Jones decided to make fun of me by quote-retweeting this delightful troll, including the image of the ‘2+2=4’ Woke Mini, and adding the comment, ‘Using Arabic numerals to try to make a point about white, Western superiority is just so damn classic.’ The meme came from philosopher James Lindsay, whose upcoming “Cynical Theories” book on identity politics co-written with Helen Pluckrose is already an Amazon bestseller. It started on July 5 when Nikole Hannah-Jones, who penned the lead essay for The New York Times’ 1619 Project, was trolled with a meme.