I’ve taught mathematics at community colleges for over 20 years and I’m absolutely convinced that not all people can learn algebra or calculus.
It's obviously genetic, says the mathemetician.
I tried once to ask reddit's Anthropologists about what cultural artifacts are affected by genetics e.g. how lactose intolerance can affect a local culture. The question was apparently racist and then taken down.
I once asked an obvious lead in to a racist argument and was called a racist. It must be a conspiracy.
[Generic pontificating on the nature of society from the fount of the infinite wisdom of my anus] (it's multiple comment threads, and the free square on your HN bingo card)
You write web servers that need more boxes and serve less traffic than was standard 10 years ago. Why would anyone listen to you on any topic.
Idiotic understanding of anthropology and genetics aside, this sounds like a dude who is kinda ok at teaching math, but mostly at the dead end of a process that has filtered only the most disadvantaged 19 year olds to him and then being like 'wtf these kids can't do math', as opposed to the more accurate thought of 'wtf how the hell has the academic system failed these kids so astoundingly that they struggle doing basic math?'
I for one had a series of awful math teachers, to the point when I finally got good ones it was still a struggle to keep up in the class because I hadn't mastered the steps before. It wasn't until college that I actually grasped algebra and trig, and that was in the process of attempting to learn basic calculus for the second time.
Biggest culprits for some kids not being able to learn certain subjects such as Math are piece of shit reactionary assholes like this guy who don’t understand shit about shit and impose their birdbrain logic on their students and ruin them for life.
My father was a Pure Mathematics profesor and because of him I became decent at mathematics but I had a fuckbrain racist shithead in highschool as a physics teacher who who’d pick on me and forever jammed my brain in Physics for the rest of my life. I’m now a shitty engineer because I can do Organic chemistry and Math just fine but as soon as I get into applied shit like Engineering which is mostly physics my brain goes into self destruct.
I’ve had lots of women classmates of mine in my humanities courses who said they wanted to go into technical fields but didn’t cause math was scary. MOST LIKELY BECAUSE OF ABSOLUTE VERMIN LIKE THIS GUY.