Last week, Reason Magazine published a story where a mathematician’s findings were suppressed by activists as their worldview took a hit. Reason writes that “at the behest of a feminist professor, an academic journal’s board reportedly threatened to “harass the journal until it died”–for an article failing to be politically correct enough. The editor of the magazine which dropped the mathematician’s article stated that it would draw hype from the right-wing media–the horror!–but instead, shooting themselves in the foot in the process, they have attracted the attention of a wider range of publications.

In October last year, a professor from the University of Illinois drew some unwanted attention when she suggested that the origins of maths maybe too Greek or Eurocentric. According to Campus Reform, she was also concerned “that evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white counterparts.” As a way to circumvent these issues, a suggestion to have aspiring math professors politicize their teaching was made.

The Atlantic ran an article in May 2017 about a paper which expressed concerns about ‘whiteness’ being a driving force in disproportionate outcomes in performance when it comes to testing. The author of this paper states “what are the theorems that we have known here in America before colonization? What indigenous mathematicians have we had? We’re not a written society, so we don’t have these books that say, ‘Here’s this Ojibwe person’s knowledge.’” The author of the paper thought “that school systems ought to support math educators in deconstructing and discarding the white frame of mathematics education.” Neato.

CNN Money posted an article titled: “Math is racist: How data is driving inequality”, covering a book written by a Mathematician delving into issues partly caused by mathematics in promoting inequality. Also, apparently, citing uncomfortable data is ‘white privilege’ according to The Daily Caller, so there may a few issues in bringing the point across.

And finally, my personal favourite: “The GDP is Sexist”. While I’m not a fan of GDP to measure growth–mostly due to wildly irresponsible government spending being lumped in as productivity, and the fact that GDPism has become a quasi-religion–Quartz magazine took issue at economic yardstick for… sexism! While the article bemoans the fact women’s contributions such as care work and motherhood go largely unnoticed in these metrics; I would argue that it would be impossible to put a value on something as priceless as motherhood.

A Michigan mother arrested after stealing her teen daughter's cell phone as a form of discipline has been vindicated.

The Ottawa County prosecutor dismissed the charges against the local woman on Tuesday. Questions remain, however, as to why she was arrested in the first place.

"I would like answers on why it got so far and how it got this far where this happened within my home. I'm disciplining my child, then I'm being the one handcuffed," Jodie May told WOOD-TV.

May was nursing her 4-week-old baby the day before Mother's Day when a deputy knocked on her door, telling her she'd be arrested on a misdemeanor theft charge.

"He had told me that he was going to arrest me, and I asked him if I could turn myself in on that Monday by myself, that I had a new baby. She wasn't taking the bottle yet," she said.

Her proposals weren't accepted. She was arrested and taken to a holding cell before being released two hours later on a $200 bond.

May told WOOD-TV that she took her 15-year-old daughter's iPhone 6 away in April after she got in trouble at school. However, Ron Frantz, the prosecutor, said the mom never told the original deputies that she'd taken the phone away to punish her daughter. In fact, it was never mentioned in the original report. The mom, though, claims she did tell the deputy upfront.

May's ex-husband, who reported the alleged theft, told deputies that he owned the phone, but the mom says the phone was a Christmas gift from her ex-husband to her daughter.

"I believe the prosecutor knew the whole time. It was an easy question to have answered," May said.

Just a few short minutes into the trial, the assistant prosecutor announced it was, indeed, the daughter's phone, so the case was dismissed and May left the courthouse with a clean record.