The Decolonization Movement’s Assault on Western Values

Commentary Ontario parents must have been bewildered if not horrified several years back to discover that math was racist. A new school curriculum put forth by the province included a preamble declaring “mathematics can be subjective” and “has been used to normalize racism.” It urged “a decolonial, anti-racist approach” to mathematics instruction. It turns out math is fundamentally “Eurocentric,” according to the bureaucrats in charge of educating our children, crafted as an instrument of power by white males to benefit themselves. Jason To, the Toronto District School Board’s coordinator of secondary mathematics, created a webinar stating that anyone using the phrasing “2 + 2 = 4” to prove their point is propounding “Covert White Supremacy.” Woke activists have also called math a conduit for “hate facts,” such as statistically illuminating the—nearly taboo—issue of black fatherlessness in the United States or the real nature of the alleged gender pay gap....