Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege

[Forty Two]

Yes, definitely an idiot, but from the academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored...

As with the 1,000 other academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored....like the ones a while back who said there's no such thing as biological sex and it's all a social construct...oh, wait...not fringe anymore.... and the ones who bleat about microaggressions and cultural appropriation...oh, wait, yeah, not fringe anymore either....

People used to have the same attitude to the idea that black people were just as bright as white people... yeah, just a fringe idea.

Things change. Get with it granddad.

They do, and change is fine, but there is biological sex, and algebra is not a tool of white oppression, and logic is not sexist.

[Forty Two]

Actually, my implication was quite different, Brian. The oddball stuff that gets 42 riled up is not only fringe stuff now, but, IMO, it always will be, unlike the change in thinking about racial stereotypes.

Don't bet on it.

[Forty Two]

Didn't Jesus say on the mount, "how blessed are the whites, for they shall be better at maths" ?

The SJWs are getting ready with their trigger warnings -

"Trigger Warning: Contains Racism, Including Theorems and Concepts Named After Societies Whose Skin Was, on Average, Olive Hued and Lighter. Beware of Mathematics, the tool of the patriarchy."

A university already deemed the "marriage" theorem to be offensive, and issued trigger warnings about that. It's becoming hate speech.

[NineBerry]

What is the application of biological sex outside biology?

[rainbow]

The Rhind Papyrus, dating from around 1650 BCE, is a kind of instruction manual in arithmetic and geometry, and it gives us explicit demonstrations of how multiplication and division was carried out at that time. It also contains evidence of other mathematical knowledge, including unit fractions, composite and prime numbers, arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, and how to solve first order linear equations as well as arithmetic and geometric series. The Berlin Papyrus, which dates from around 1300 BCE, shows that ancient Egyptians could solve second-order algebraic (quadratic) equations.

http://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html

...a thousand years before the Greeks.

[Brian Peacock]

Yes, definitely an idiot, but from the academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored...

As with the 1,000 other academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored....like the ones a while back who said there's no such thing as biological sex and it's all a social construct...oh, wait...not fringe anymore.... and the ones who bleat about microaggressions and cultural appropriation...oh, wait, yeah, not fringe anymore either....

People used to have the same attitude to the idea that black people were just as bright as white people... yeah, just a fringe idea.

Things change. Get with it granddad.

They do, and change is fine, but there is biological sex, and algebra is not a tool of white oppression, and logic is not sexist.

Haven't you figured it out yet? People juat aren't defining themselves by your criteria and conditions any more - why do you care so passionately about whether they do or not?

[Forty Two]

I don't care what they define themselves as. I care what they do to the law, to universities, to the court system, etc.

People can "define themselves" how they want, but that is not the test for whether there is biological sex in the animal kingdom. And, these attacks on mathematics and the sciences, the SJW barrage about how science is a tool of the white patriarchy, logic is sexist, mathematics is racist -- this is their ideology. They are trying to wedge into the sciences and mathematics like they wedged into other disciplines at universities, and destroy them, because their goal is to destroy the pillars of western civilization, which they deem to be systemically white, patriarchal, racist, and capitalist.

I don't care if Joe Blow wants to identify or define himself as X. But, I do care that my daughter should have a school to go to that is not rife with this absolute nonsense. And, it's getting difficult. They're infesting the high schools and even the grammar schools here in the United States now. Mainly it's in the more metropolitan areas here, so far. That's one reason I'm being very vigilant in monitory what is going on at my daughter's school, and I am looking years ahead to where I can send the kids, to make sure I get them a good education (which means, in part, not poisoned by the left wing, progressive, SJW mindset). The difficulty, of course, is that one also has to avoid the right-wing, conservative religious mindset too. They're just as bad and often worse.

[pErvinalia]

We have a younger generation that is in large part opposed to freedom of speech, having been convinced that it is basically the same as racism, sexism, misogyny, and the rest of the laundry list. That will have a significant impact in the coming years regarding the law of speech and freedom of thought.

Yeah, imagine not being able to say racist and homophobic shit. We need to get the tiki torches out and fight for our freedums!

[pErvinalia]

Yes, definitely an idiot, but from the academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored...

As with the 1,000 other academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored....like the ones a while back who said there's no such thing as biological sex and it's all a social construct...oh, wait...not fringe anymore.... and the ones who bleat about microaggressions and cultural appropriation...oh, wait, yeah, not fringe anymore either....

People used to have the same attitude to the idea that black people were just as bright as white people... yeah, just a fringe idea.

Things change. Get with it granddad.

They do, and change is fine, but there is biological sex,

There is biological sex, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily binary like you and the other people who are afraid of change would have us believe.

[pErvinalia]

What is the application of biological sex outside biology?

It's useful for conservatives to pigeonhole people and more easily identify who they are afraid of.

[pErvinalia]

Yes, definitely an idiot, but from the academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored...

As with the 1,000 other academic fringes that will never have any real effect and should simply be ignored....like the ones a while back who said there's no such thing as biological sex and it's all a social construct...oh, wait...not fringe anymore.... and the ones who bleat about microaggressions and cultural appropriation...oh, wait, yeah, not fringe anymore either....

People used to have the same attitude to the idea that black people were just as bright as white people... yeah, just a fringe idea.

Things change. Get with it granddad.

They do, and change is fine, but there is biological sex, and algebra is not a tool of white oppression, and logic is not sexist.

Haven't you figured it out yet? People juat aren't defining themselves by your criteria and conditions any more - why do you care so passionately about whether they do or not?

Because ultimately he's a conservative. He's afraid of change.

[Forty Two]

We have a younger generation that is in large part opposed to freedom of speech, having been convinced that it is basically the same as racism, sexism, misogyny, and the rest of the laundry list. That will have a significant impact in the coming years regarding the law of speech and freedom of thought.

Yeah, imagine not being able to say racist and homophobic shit. We need to get the tiki torches out and fight for our freedums!

The problem is that they define stuff that isn't racist and homophobic as racist and homophobic. Like "I'm against gay marriage" and "I think there is (or isn't) such a thing as race." Depending on who you talk to, those things are racist. Depending on who you talk to, even saying there are two sexes is "phobic." That's the problem.

Another problem is, yeah, "imagine not being ABLE to say racist and homophobic shit." It would, indeed, be quite the horrible world where we are not allowed to say something racist or homophobic. I see the left wing progressive saying racist shit all the time, like when they descry white men, and insult white people in general - such as the person who wrote the article about the "whiteness" of mathematics. Replace white with black or yellow in the article, and it's be racist. I wouldn't want the author to not be "able" to write her nonsense, even though it plainly is "racist."

[pErvinalia]

Better get your colouring-in pens out...

[Forty Two]

Because ultimately he's a conservative. He's afraid of change.

I wish I had read this asinine idiocy before I wasted my time responding cordially to one of your posts. Again, I should have known better. Yeesh.

[pErvinalia]

It's hard to take someone with your kind of views seriously.