[HN Gopher] 'Decolonise' maths by subtracting white male viewpoi...
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'Decolonise' maths by subtracting white male viewpoint, urges
Durham University
Author : xqcgrek2
Score : 7 points
Date : 2022-04-16 22:31 UTC (30 minutes ago)
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| arrakis2021 wrote:
| Math, like everything else, is racist
| version_five wrote:
| This reminds me a bit of the part in 1984 where O'Brien is
| telling Winston the sun goes around the earth and the stars are
| just lights a few kilometers away. But of course for some
| scientific and navigational purposes it's convenient to assume
| the earth orbits the sun and the stars are far away in space.
| Nobody would want anything they depend on to be designed without
| modern mathematics, but from a position of comfort, it's easy to
| make stuff up to suit your agenda when it has no real world
| consequences for you.
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| Injecting politics into science can be pretty scary.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism happened when genetics
| was deemed too reactionary.
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| But it's already there, you might argue.
|
| That's right. Just like how the idea of everything being
| determined by genes is a capitalist narrative meant to justify
| class differences while ignoring the potential for change in all
| things (by which anyone can do anything the state needs). ;p
| version_five wrote:
| I know your joking, but everything being determined by genes
| would support a socialist "each according to his ability" type
| narrative wouldn't it? Capitalism says you can make whatever
| you want of yourself.
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