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Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by ajuc on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:44AM (#30999035)
First of all the idea that "white" = "colonizing", "non-white" = "colonized" is in itself racist and wrong. There have been hundreds of racially "white" populations colonized by others. For current day example see Ukrainians fighting colonization by Russians as we speak. For other examples see Balts or Irish.

It is abusive and morally reprehensible to demand colonized people "check their privileges" just because in your ignorance you only consider their skin color as relevant. World is bigger than anglosphere, the criteria along which people were discriminated and subjugated varied significantly.

Second of all - the point that the article makes (should race be considered when evaluating mathematical ideas) is different from the point that most comments make (attribution is skewed towards white people). It's perfectly possible to admit skewed attribution and argue against it while agreeing with the article that value of math should not depend on the race of the person who proposes it. I'd call it the only sane option, even.

Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by bobthechef on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:18AM (#31003074)
Indeed, this racist condemnation of all "white" people is compounded by its anglocentrism. The etymology[0] of the word "slave" is also historically interesting[1].

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=slave

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe

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Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by dang on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:28PM (#31006549)
Please don't use HN for ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by zozbot234 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:36PM (#31006655)
It's either Marxism or thinly veiled ethnic nationalism-- or a combination of the two, which gets real scary if you think about what happened in places like Cambodia. Where intellectuals were viewed by the regime as oppressors and colonizers.
Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by ajuc on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:05AM (#31001437)
Meh. I've seen accusations of marxism far more often than pleas for decolonization of non-colonizers, and for far dumber reasons.
Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by notimrelakatos on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:09AM (#31001483)
> These people have no real knowledge of history

That's a kinda naive take, the ones actually writing those theories know history pretty well. Marx rewrote all history fit his dialectic, the same is done by his children because it really works, rewrite the past to influence the present and get the future you want.

Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by FooBarBizBazz on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:41PM (#31005018)
I get what you're saying but this is all way past Marx now.
Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by antifa on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:01AM (#31002054)
Marxists are the ones telling everyone to read theory and history, get off your low horse.
Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by dang on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:28PM (#31006551)
Please don't use HN for ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Also, could you please omit personal swipes and name-calling from your HN posts? All three of your comments in this thread included that. We want the opposite here—regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by _-david-_ on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:41AM (#31004176)
Marxist want you to read history through their bias lenses. They don't want you try to read history as objectively as possible.
Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by antifa on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:52AM (#31004317)
It's starting to sound to me like you have no idea what Marxism is but you need a boogieman to complain about...