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Topic	Leftist Twitter is such a fucking rabbithole.
COVxy 02/21/21 11:52:41 PM #31:	Esrac posted... I can't be bothered to look up the details again, but what I've seen was the standard bullshit. Our mathematics and science standards are rooted in colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacist patriarchy. So, to say 2+2 must equal 5 is oppressive to other ways of knowing. Think there was a relatively big thing that blew up where popular right wing figures were comparing modern sociological theory to claiming 2+2 can equal 5, and then a bunch of mathematicians and scientists essentially said, "yo dumbasses, it can" --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] <cite>COVxy posted [p:950931538] in Leftist Tw... [t:79309080]...</cite> <quote>Esrac posted... </cite> <quote>I can't be bothered to look up the details again, but what I've seen was the standard bullshit. Our mathematics and science standards are rooted in colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacist patriarchy. So, to say 2+2 must equal 5 is oppressive to other ways of knowing.</quote> Think there was a relatively big thing that blew up where popular right wing figures were comparing modern sociological theory to claiming 2+2 can equal 5, and then a bunch of mathematicians and scientists essentially said, "yo dumbasses, it can" --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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