Posted on 04/13/2022 11:30:15 AM PDT by blam
We previously discussed the view of University of Rhode Island and Director of Graduate Studies of History Erik Loomis that “Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist.” Others have agreed with that view, including denouncing math as racist or a “tool of whiteness.” Now, as part of its “decolonization” efforts, Durham University is calling on professors in the math department to ask themselves if they’re citing work from “mostly white or male” mathematicians.
According to the Telegraph and The College Fix a guide instructs faculty that “decolonising the mathematical curriculum means considering the cultural origins of the mathematical concepts, focusses, and notation we most commonly use.” It adds:
“[T]he question of whether we have allowed Western mathematicians to dominate in our discipline is no less relevant than whether we have allowed western authors to dominate the field of literature. It may even be more important, if only because mathematics is rather more central to the advancement of science than is literature.”
Some professors have objected to being asked to consider the race or gender of mathematicians rather than their underlying theories or formulas.
In the Telegraph article, Exeter University Social Science Professor Doug Stokes is quoted as saying that “[t]he idea behind decolonising maths is that because everyone should be regarded as equal, the status of their beliefs must also be equal.” He denounces that view as “judgmental relativism is an inversion of science that is based on what is real rather than making everybody feel included.”
But all ideas are not equal, particularly math. Some literally do not add up. Math is inherently objective and based on provable tenets or theories. As I discussed earlier, it is a shame to see math treated as a field of privilege when many of us view it as a field of pure intellectual pursuit and bias neutrality. Either the math is there or it is not. The race of the mathematician will not change the outcome.
The Durham University guide insists that academics need to not only consider what theories to apply but the race of the theoreticians to “decolonize” math. It does not state how a failure to do so will impact on a professor’s retention or advancement at the university.
The average witch-doctor has a better understanding of math than the “professor”.
And calculus was invented by a Christian theologian named Sir Isaac Newton, who finished the work of a predecessor theologian Rene Descartes.
Computer Indians vs Casino Indians.
-PJ
Back to counting on the fingers of one hand, eh Prof?
I'll bet a black lesbian repressed servant woman really came up with that and Newton just took credit.
Which totally explains why they were a bunch of warring tribesman barely able to feed themselves before westerners and Jooze arrived . . .
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.
Do you mean sort of like conservatism and classical economics?
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Not quite. In ebonics 2+2 before.
throw your engineering students in the quarry, with the job of assembling a structure ... minus the use og calculus, euclidian geometry, or trigonnometry!!!
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.
(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.
Who are the dupes that pay for this?
bttt!!
“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.
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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