America Seem To Get Dafter Every Day!

[Buenchico]

This opinion piece, from USA Today, is well worth a read - if only because it's extremely funny ;-)

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/04/18/florida-math-textbook-desantis-bans-woke-critical-race-theory/7359095001/

[jno]

I like the idea of a right triangle, sort of like right whales I suppose. I wonder if there's a far-right triangle?

[Buenchico]

Cloth-eared Floridians might rage about young people studying sets, I think, Jno ;-)

Intersection! Never!

[ichkeria]

There was a bit on CNN about this. DeSantis would still be better then Trump I suppose. I wonder where my God-fearing Irish-Floridian cousin stands on this.

[ToraToraTora]

That Pythagoras was a wrong un too, all that Squaw on the Hypo stuff, shocking!

[lady-janine]

W O T?

[ToraToraTora]

LJ that's a Trig reference.

[tomus42]

You say dafter, I say scarier.

[Buenchico]

You might be right, Tomus42!

[William51]

The US has always been struggling with itself and is still a nation of some very good people and some with weird misconceptions. But this side of the Atlantic and we also have some weird ideas taking root.