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Newsweek has contacted representatives of Mamdani for comment via email outside of regular working hours.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540
That article is serious. Well I guess it makes sense - since the whole joke here is practically based on the fact that many people are too dumb to understand it. But they actually contacted Mamdani to make sure! Doubly hilarious.
They’re teaching Non-Binary stuff to our kids! What has this world come to? Oh mah lawd!
0000/1010 do not recommend
1001/1011 Never Forget
Shakira law is imminent!
Rule 1: The hips do not lie
Ooh, baby, when you talk like that…
Long story, made short .
Americans have forgotten to take out a patent on numbers, so we have been using Arabic numbers for many centuries.
OMG! My husband just told me a few minutes ago that people are het up over the notion that their kids are going to be taught Arabic numerals.
I’m like… “Really? No… is this… you mean online or at work?”
“Work.”
Facepalm.
I told him if they say anything again, to ask them if they believe Roman numerals would be a better option to do math with.
(Gah, the MAGA people are fucking stupid.)
In our CCXLIX years as a country we never stooped this low
Are MAGA alright with the Latin alphabet?
You mean, like, Mexican?
You mean, like Mexican?
are you playing the game or are you getting played?
talk to them in a latin tongue.
Had my republican friend mention this one. He’s not an idiot either. Had to explain what Arabic numbers are.
he’s not an idiot either
Hmmmm
Eh, don’t insult people if they’re willing to learn.
He doesn’t need to be an idiot to be lacking education. Knowing the name of the system is not necessary to use it. Yet this basic knowledge taught to small children hasn’t reach him. In such context, he’s not at fault but the teaching system.
X is full with MAGA memeing shit about libs. Yet here they’re too dumb to realize they’re being had.
Not sure which type of dumb is worse. One is deliberate ignorance, the other the self-centeredness of a child.
Oh, it very probably did get told to him at some point. But like the majority of people here, he’s forgotten it as one of those “useless” pieces of knowledge that got taught to you that y’all bitch about.
Unless it’s something you need to know regularly, you will forget it.
I’d hate to meet a chud who is considered an idiot if that’s what passes for a smart one
Go to the White House, you’d hate it a lot.
We’re a good Christian nation! Our children should only be learning Church numerals!
True disciplines only use Cistercian numerals!
a single glyph able to indicate any integer from 1 to 9,999
Impressive.
^ This thread right here, officer.
Last time I got this reply on reddit, I was explaining the benefits of consuming cheese made from breast milk.
…go on
It was related to “The Lady Cheese Shop” project, ALSO happened in New York, coincidence?
In New York, you know 8 million people, not one cow. If you really want to be local the mammals in your midst are human…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxiGg2kLjQ
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7413X0/
Video of the cheese making process, NSFW: https://www.miriamsimun.xyz/makinghumancheese
This thread right here, officer
because they said cis?
Yeah and we are going to be using Latin alphabet derivatives.
Why can’t we all just learn American instead? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What is american ? Never seen one
Oh, they’re pretty big. Usually 500lbs and using hoverrounds at age 23.
Excuse me? We’re Americans not British. We don’t use lbs. We aim for the perfect weight of one 7.3L Godzilla
This joke is boring, unbelievable that so many morons still don’t realize this. This is a joke for 11 year olds
And yet, this was literally on my phone’s newsfeed because people are that stupid.
We are so cooked
Change your newsfeed
I saw the article on Lemmy
That’s why the joke is fun. It’s at the expense of ignorant Islamaphobes.
You mean MAGA supporters and Americans in particular ?
Exactly why MAGA still gets upset by it, they aren’t smart enough and never matured past 11.
Oh no! You’re already using those anti-american squiggles!
sorry do you mean II or XI year olds?
yes
I went throught the US School system in 2 blue cities and the term “Arabic Numerals” were never once uttered in any of my classes.
My dad always told me these are called Arabic Numerals… and he did not go through the US Education system (went to school in a different country)… so… take that how you will…
Did you ever learn Roman numerals? I think that’s probably when I was taught that “regular” numbers are called Arabic numerals.
That, or I just learned it through messing with my computer’s character sets or whatever.
Algebra shouldve been a clue,
Everyone is 12 now rule going strong
Half the country can barely read better than a 12 year old so it makes sense they wouldn’t catch on.
god forbid they see greek letters in mathemtics as “foreign” words too.
I, for one, don’t get it.
I, for one
No no, that’s a Roman numeral
The joke is that we use arabic numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) but many people don’t know that those numbers are called “arabic numbers” and so racist people think It’s outrageous that these ‘foreign’ things are being taught.
Please tell us what you don’t understand so that we can provide the answer in a better context. Please do not use AI yourself because the answer is not technically sufficiently well-founded adapted to eridite persons
*Erudite.
Edit: was that the joke?
Thinking in one language and writing in another language leads sometimes to spelling mistakes, thank you for the correction .
If I use I for one I wouldn’t get it.
Well, the neonazi party in Germany fell for it a few years back.
Which branch or group ?
I think it was an AfD state or municipal group making an official question to the responsible governmental body.
Bring back Roman Numerals.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it happened. They already say no to metric, then why use logic with number and just go for 1000+(1000-100) +50+10+10+10+5+1 to write the year 1986, but instead of Arabic numbers they use letters so it’s MCMLXXXVI. I mean, it’s not as bad as Danish but it’s somewhat as overly complicated as French.
bring back writing and reading latin.
bring back writing and reading
latin.and then old english.
The feral hogs are getting restless
Next your gonna tell me he’ll make junior high students learn the teachings of Al-Jabr. Unbelievable!
they didnt before?..
The joke is that to be offended by that statement you have to be both racist and an idiot, which is a criteria that many Americans can satisfy in spades
both racist and an idiot
All racists are idiots (but not all idiots are racist)
As John Stewart Mill.said, all stupid peole are conservative but not all.conservatives are.stupid.
There are both kindhearted morons and intelligent, wealthy sociopaths.
This is C% bullshit!
