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Speaker: It's common knowledge that math is racist.
Speaker: You'll be happy to learn that math is now sexist and homophobic too!
Speaker: Yay!
Speaker: No more tipping!
Speaker: Luis Leyva, an associate professor of mathematics education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education and Human Development, recently gave a lecture called Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cis-Heteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice.
Speaker: Okay!
Speaker: Hang on.
Speaker: Let's hear him, her, they out.
Speaker: And now the translation.
Speaker: Math is for white straight males.
Speaker: Why that is, he won't or can't or doesn't say.
Speaker: And because of that, gay and or black or other people whose skin isn't white can only get learned up so good.
Speaker: Because as we all know, if white people get really tan, they lose their ability to add.
Speaker: How do I tip 20% on a $17.53 restaurant tab?
Speaker: Good thing I'm white and straight and have a calculator on my phone.
