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Topic	Math is racist
Mistere Man 10/30/19 12:08:16 AM #34:	ZMythos posted... Mistere Man posted... Again if the math was sound it was sound it was the mathematicians that were racist not math. Math is a tool, or even a universal language that can be learned and used by anyone. If those that know it are racist that doesnt change what math is. As with any tool or language it can be used for good or bad but that is the user will not the subject. You contradicted yourself. Despite its beauty math is only a construct, a system, made by people. So when enough people (with power/privilege) dictate how that system is approached, written, defined, etc. and exclude certain groups from that system, then the system is flawed. It's not the fault of the system itself, but then again most racist institutions aren't self-defined that way either. The prison system is racist because it enables the incarceration of a disproportionate number of black males. Math has racist roots because of the exclusion of women and people of color for centuries. The people in power once thought the world was flat, they even went as far as to ostracize (or worse) those that thought differently. This didnt change the truth just the truth as people knew it or were taught, but the universal truth was unaffected. Math is a universal truth our limited understanding of it doesnt change what it truly is just how we perceive it. People in power saying math is (blank) just like those saying the world is (blank) doesnt effect the truth. Math is math it doesnt discriminate or hate it isnt good or evil it just is. The history of our understanding of math may be riddled with racism and discrimination, but that doesnt mean math was the instigator, and it doesnt make math racist just the history of our understanding of it. --- Water+Fall=Radiation. <cite>Mistere Man posted [p:929414984] in Math is ra... [t:78120732]...</cite> <quote>ZMythos posted...</cite> <quote>Mistere Man posted...</cite> <quote> Again if the math was sound it was sound it was the mathematicians that were racist not math. Math is a tool, or even a universal language that can be learned and used by anyone. If those that know it are racist that doesnt change what math is. As with any tool or language it can be used for good or bad but that is the user will not the subject.</quote> You contradicted yourself. Despite its beauty math is only a construct, a system, made by people. So when enough people (with power/privilege) dictate how that system is approached, written, defined, etc. and exclude certain groups from that system, then the system is flawed. It's not the fault of the system itself, but then again most racist institutions aren't self-defined that way either. The prison system is racist because it enables the incarceration of a disproportionate number of black males. Math has racist roots because of the exclusion of women and people of color for centuries.</quote> The people in power once thought the world was flat, they even went as far as to ostracize (or worse) those that thought differently. This didnt change the truth just the truth as people knew it or were taught, but the universal truth was unaffected. Math is a universal truth our limited understanding of it doesnt change what it truly is just how we perceive it. People in power saying math is (blank) just like those saying the world is (blank) doesnt effect the truth. Math is math it doesnt discriminate or hate it isnt good or evil it just is. The history of our understanding of math may be riddled with racism and discrimination, but that doesnt mean math was the instigator, and it doesnt make math racist just the history of our understanding of it. --- Water+Fall=Radiation.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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