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Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics by coffeeblack on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:52PM (#33615558)
That’s not correct. But assuming it is, how far are you willing to go? Skin color? Family education? Neighborhood a person grew up in? Gene defects? There are billions of reasons why two people are not completely equal.

In the end, you need 999 bureaucrats to make sure one person get equity.

One reason why communist countries are poor. Nobody produces things because everybody in working in the administration of equity.

And in the end, everybody is poor.

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Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics by _0ffh on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @06:26PM (#33616681)
Apart from the apparatchiks, of course!
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Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics by kaba0 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:48AM (#33640613)
What communist country? And come on, you are mixing up absolutely different things.. Economic left has absolutely nothing to do with this new-wave “liberal” thinking which is pretty much an American thing and is more of a propaganda to be able to point fingers.

Like, how “woke” China is in your opinion? Genociding Uyghurs doesn’t seem too “leftist” to me.

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