
A World Where 2+2=5
Pop Quiz! 2+2=??? I'll go with 4, final answer! Right? Well, it depends... Recently, Twitter was in a frenzy over a tweet by a user named @ConceptualJames that read, "2+2=4: A perspective in White, Western mathematics that marginalizes other possible values." This prompted many on Twitter to trend "2+2=5" as an endorsement of James' point that 2+2 is not a fact, but rather a western perspective that's inconsiderate of other walks of life. What should be a simple math problem