This is the second installment of an ongoing investigation into Ontario’s public-school system. Read the first installment, on “Progressive Discipline,” here.
Two plus two no longer equals four, according to members of the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), who consider the equation to be a white-supremacist dog whistle instead of a basic mathematical truth.
According to a webinar created by OMCA president Jason To, proponents of math’s political neutrality who use the phrasing “2 + 2 = 4” are engaged in an act of “Covert White Supremacy.”
To’s presentation, released in September of last year, features a pyramid of “White Supremacy in