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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by breppp on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @01:14AM (#43701733)
I read the Nature article, and I read the seminal work on the subject Orientalism by Said. The context of the article is post-colonialism, a very established philosophical movement. This is shown when they mention whether mathematics is socially constructed and in the actual title "decolonization". I then proceeded to criticize that movement and explain why it is a problem for mathematics.

You and the other poster responded with anger, I do not agree I am the one who is not meaningfully contributing

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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by skyyler on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:27AM (#43706671)
Do you think there may have been developments in this space since 1978, when Said published Orientalism?

I don't mean to be rude, but do you think it's possible that your understanding of the situation is a bit out of date?

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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by breppp on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:44PM (#43708919)
Maybe, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject.

Which part of my critique of post-colonialism do you think had become obsolete?

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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by skyyler on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:54PM (#43709026)
>Therefore it is common for an adherent of post-colonialism to believe a statement is true if it was made by a person arbitrarily considered oppressed

This part. I'm not sure if it's because it's out of date or just plain wrong, though.

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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by breppp on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:17PM (#43709887)
I could give your own post as an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685383 , where you judged a statement as false due to the presumed location of the author in the power/knowledge spectrum.

But sorry, it's hard to discuss when you quote a single sentence from the few paragraphs i've written and say it's wrong, with nothing added. When adding to it your replies in previous discussions we had such as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705166

I feel you are overly emotionally attached to the subject and this is approaching troll/flame territory. It's not that I don't want to discuss with you, but I feel in our engagements a lot of aggression and very little actual passing of information except for short sentences, so let's end it right here

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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by skyyler on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:31PM (#43710034)
That isn't a response to what I was asking.

You just sent links to me without acknowledging the conversation we were having at all.

Very, very strange.

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