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NYT Editorial Board Member Nailed Again By Critics After Blaming Bloomberg Math Mistake Backlash On ‘Racist Twitter Mob’
A racist Twitter mob came for me over a trivial math mistake. I'm not going anywhere. https://t.co/McxAT8P7OI
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) March 11, 2020
“Trivial math mistake.” She did the math that said that Mike Bloomberg could have given every American a buck and a half, and came away thinking that he could have given every American a million dollars. That’s not trivial by *any* estimation. That is phenomenally bad math. It’s like looking at a small child and estimating that it weigh twenty seven thousand tons. This is, I suppose, part of the left-wing war on math, science and reason, trading western notions of mathematics for “other ways of knowing” where assuming that two times two equals four and not twenty-eight quadrillion is a result of cis-hetero patriarchal whiteness.