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Billionaire Zohran Mamdani donor bankrolling
national ‘woke math’ movement

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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 9/7/2025 3:12:04 AM

The billionaire heiress who recently donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign is bankrolling a national push to bring “woke math” into public schools — a twisted bid to turn kids into socialist revolutionaries, critics told The Post. Philanthropist Liz Simons, daughter of late hedge-fund billionaire Jim Simons, oversees a foundation with a near-billion-dollar endowment trashing traditional race-neutral math in favor of race-obsessed leftist lessons inserting social justice principles into many aspects of students’ studies.[snip] thrusting racial and LGBTQ themes into previously straightforward lesson plans.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 9/7/2025 5:43:18 AM (No. 2000425)
So, Maxine Waters saying "peach fo fi" and "peach fo sen" is considered woke math? It will still sound like speaking with a mouth full of oatmeal and marbles.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mifla 9/7/2025 8:50:47 AM (No. 2000466)
Yet another limousine liberal soothing her conscience by bankrolling far left nonsense. After this, she has a massage scheduled, cocktails out on the veranda, and dinner cooked by her imported European chef.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: chillijilli 9/7/2025 9:02:54 AM (No. 2000474)
I'm totally opposed to this "Let him win" attitude. The liberals do not think like us and therefore won't be a bit worried about bankruptcies or a city crumbling to the ground. All they want to do is WIN so they can get a toe in the door. After that, the media will lie for them 24/7 by portraying socialism as the kind and right thing to do with no mention of increased poverty, economic decline, and a collapse of living standards. Let Memdani win? So he can get his toe in the door for others who think like him? How can anyone think that's a good idea?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chillijilli 9/7/2025 9:07:30 AM (No. 2000475)
Oops sorry, reply #2 was supposed to be posted on a different thread. Having lots of navigation problems this morning on L-dot.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Krause 9/7/2025 9:15:46 AM (No. 2000478)
Inane socialists jumping on the mammy bandwagon.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: privateer 9/7/2025 9:18:54 AM (No. 2000483)
This movement says: OK, most Black people are too stupid to use math effectively. BUT...they can be foot soldiers in the coming Marxist revolution. Bottom line: you'll still be idiots...but you'll be 'useful idiots'. Woke math will teach you to think the correct way, and fire up your resentment of the status quo: White Americans, and patriots of every color.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/7/2025 10:36:00 AM (No. 2000515)
Two can play that game. A liberal heiress inherits her father's 31 billion dollar estate. How much of that estate did she earn. How long before she spends it all. How much will the estate grow year to year. How much does she pay in taxes.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: MickTurn 9/7/2025 11:10:39 AM (No. 2000528)
Woke Math is DOPE MATH. 2+2=22, all day!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/7/2025 11:11:21 AM (No. 2000529)
Pardon second post. Wait until people discover race is factored into the final grade. Or smart kids are penalized to make everyone 'equal'. The other shoe remains to drop on woke education.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Starboard_side 9/7/2025 11:36:36 AM (No. 2000537)
Math is built upon one plank to the next. You skip a section and you're lost. Fastest way to keep underprivileged children down is what this "heiress" is supporting. Particularly in today's math-focused and AI powered economy. I do notice a socialist needs a billionaire to fund their campaign. What irony.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: paral04 9/7/2025 12:26:47 PM (No. 2000554)
"Race neutral Math" ? What the heck does that mean? One plus one is two whether the counter is White, Black or Yellow. These people are hell bent on destroying any intelligence left in our society.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: earlybird 9/7/2025 12:42:00 PM (No. 2000562)
FTA: The Heising-Simons Foundation, co-founded by Simons and her philanthropist husband Mark Heising, has given millions to the woke math cause — including $1.7 million since 2023 to the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Project at Chicago’s Erikson Institute. In Chicago, less than one in five public school students can do basic math, based on recent test scores." And this achieves what?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: wilarrbie 9/7/2025 1:14:37 PM (No. 2000577)
How many billionaire leftists does it take to destroy a country?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Daisymay 9/7/2025 2:23:56 PM (No. 2000592)
Years ago they decided to get rid of Phonics. As a result, a lot of kids could not Read. Then they decided to have "New Math" and as a result, a lot of kids can't add or subtract without their cellphone. Last came the Brilliant Idea that kids didn't need to learn Cursive. Now we have Young Adults who can't Read, Write or even sign their Name on a Check or Document! What next? Woke Math! I have no idea what that is, but I'm happy all of my Children went to school way back in the 60's! They had great Teachers, so they can Read, Write and know how to sign their name! I don't see a good future for Today's Kids because the Teachers are as Dumb as the Kids they're teaching!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 9/7/2025 4:15:29 PM (No. 2000625)
@#11 - Woke math means if minorities can't learn math, then neither can whites.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: czechlist 9/7/2025 9:57:44 PM (No. 2000714)
Integration fits into the racial equation but, accorging to biden, teaching the chain rule may have negative connotations. Math is regressive so the lowest common. denominator can be expected.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Rumblehog 9/8/2025 6:07:37 AM (No. 2000752)
Congress needs to make these "hedge-funds" illegal. Especially since they are misleading as they do NOT "Hedge" their Funds entrusted them by outside investors. They are nothing more than Democrat controlled, "money-laundering" operations, involving foreign "dark money" startup capital. It's almost always Democrats who take the helm of these operations, having NO financial experience and no personal stake in the firm. The hubbies of Hillary Clinton and Ilhan Omar run theirs, and a LOT more who have no political talent will be cast to the curb to run them if they're found useful by the party elites. FBI, please look into these "billionaires" who keep popping up every other week out of the blue. Something's not right on Wall Street.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Msquared112 9/8/2025 7:17:36 AM (No. 2000767)
There are some people who should not be allowed to contribute to political candidates. The only reason to support woke math is to further fragment American culture and create more racial disharmony.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: marbles 9/8/2025 8:10:36 AM (No. 2000781)
The left spends most of their time and all of our money trying to reinvent the wheel.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Zigrid 9/8/2025 9:34:01 AM (No. 2000810)
The reason the money people want change to our simple math system is it works....and if they can't convince the political animals to set aside billions for a new math...they're losing taxpayer's money...follow the money folks...it's always about money by way of "incentives"....for the congressional representatives and staffers...it's a nice perk.....
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