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Comment by thrance

5 days ago

If you really believe that then I don't know what to tell you. You've been successfully brainwashed. I hope one day you're able to hold a 5 minutes conversation with an actual student and clear that bullshit out of your head.

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cm2187  5 days ago

Yeah, I must be hallucinating with "bullshit in my head".

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00240-9

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/black-lives-ma...

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70845

  • Symbiote  5 days ago

    Would you like to further colonise mathematics?

    Algebra could be renamed Chestering, to credit the Englishman who did the real work of translating Al-Khwarizmi's text from Arabic into Latin.

    • pqtyw  5 days ago

      Well you do have a point. It would be absurd. Just like the opposite. Both decolonizing and "further" colonizing maths makes no sense and is a waste of time at best...

    • breppp  5 days ago

      Is colonizing now a synonym for cultural fusion?

      Surely the arabs have been colonizing mathematics by translating the indigenous greek works

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  • thrance  5 days ago

    You should really read those articles that you linked instead of ignorantly pointing at them in outrage, against something you clearly never engaged with other than through conservative media. At least read the Nature one, damn. It's directly addressed to people like you, who might think they have issues with this stuff, for reasons.

    No one is out to cancel theorems or whatever other bullshit. Also those concerns over the freedom of science are rich coming from the party that's actually defunding labs, arresting researchers on ideological grounds and burning books.