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“Decolonising Math”: Durham University Asks Professors to Consider the Race of Mathematicians Before Relying on their Work
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| 4-13-2022
| Jonathan Turley
Posted on 04/13/2022 11:30:15 AM PDT by blam
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To: Allegra
The average witch-doctor has a better understanding of math than the “professor”.
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:48:36 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: pepsionice; kaktuskid
And calculus was invented by a Christian theologian named Sir Isaac Newton, who finished the work of a predecessor theologian Rene Descartes.
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:48:44 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Computer Indians vs Casino Indians.
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:50:19 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(When the kings fight the serfs suffer.)
To: Da Coyote
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:55:42 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: blam
Back to counting on the fingers of one hand, eh Prof?
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:56:16 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: blam
That great news if you don't want to take calculus. That pesky white guy Newton had too much time on his hands lounging under apple trees when he came up with that.
I'll bet a black lesbian repressed servant woman really came up with that and Newton just took credit.
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:59:09 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: blam
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:59:15 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I’m not nuts about Russia. But the lunatics who hate them tend to hate me too)
To: Tell It Right
To hear the Muslims tell it, Arabs invented everything this side of the wheel.Which totally explains why they were a bunch of warring tribesman barely able to feed themselves before westerners and Jooze arrived . . .
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posted on
04/13/2022 11:59:17 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: blam
How about the possibility that statistically speaking, non-whites show less interested in science, etc., from a very early age.
Most people that know their way around in, say, math, are that way not because they’re geniuses but because they are drawn to it and have spent a lot of time studying it.
To: blam
Math is inherently objective and based on provable tenets or theories.
Do you mean sort of like conservatism and classical economics?
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posted on
04/13/2022 12:01:21 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: blam
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
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posted on
04/13/2022 12:02:12 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
To: dirtymac
So we are going to Ebonics in math where 2+2= whatever.Not quite. In ebonics 2+2 before.
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posted on
04/13/2022 12:02:26 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: blam
“Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist.”...and then people wonder why some 60 year old black full of "bitterness" shoots up a subway car in New York - just one more product of Black Culture in America today - probably told from the time he was small that he was disadvantaged, treated unfairly, disrespected, being cheated, and on and on - all the gun control, all the special affirmative action contracts, all the after-school programs in the world aren't going to change anything until blacks start thinking about how far they've come and not how hard the struggle was all the time.......
To: blam
throw your engineering students in the quarry, with the job of assembling a structure ... minus the use og calculus, euclidian geometry, or trigonnometry!!!
To: blam
Through the use of mathematics we design and develop the most advanced weapons in history. Their effectiveness is proof of the superiority of the mathematics we use.
Anyone who thinks that the validity of mathematical principles depends on the race of the proponent dooms himself to a life of subservience to those who apply true principles.
To: Tell It Right
(And calculus was invented by a Christian theologian named Sir Isaac Newton, who finished the work of a predecessor theologian Rene Descartes.)
Gottfried Leibniz deserves credit too, another white guy. We use his notation today in differential and integral calculus.
Cill all the whiteys I see, CILL my landlord.
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posted on
04/13/2022 12:13:08 PM PDT
by
thepoodlebites
(and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
To: sit-rep
Who are the dupes that pay for this?
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posted on
04/13/2022 12:15:05 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: aspasia
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posted on
04/13/2022 12:15:58 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
( )
To: blam
“Before Relying on their Work”
You know what? I think I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Woke people should not rely on the mathematical discoveries of people like Plato, Euclid, Pascal, and Descartes. In fact we should make it illegal for any woke person to use or reference the mathematics of European men, or use any invention that relies on such mathematics. Punishable by death or banishment.
To: Tell It Right
Technically much of that transmission or preservation of information was done by the Persian caliphates, not by Arabs, but the muslims as a whole claim them, because, well, the Arabs don’t have much to claim for themselves.
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