10-27-2017, 04:45 PM
(10-27-2017, 09:17 AM)Vlad Wrote: We should be so grateful to have liberal academia there to open our eyes.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/24/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says.html
Doesn't this professor know that Arabs invented algebra?
Quote:“School mathematics curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean Theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans," she says,
Quote:Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics,
Honestly, who the f*** cares who gets credit for creating or developing mathematics? Does it matter if it was largely developed by white people or black people or brown people or whatever? I mean, if it turns out that mathematics was created by a race of green aliens, does that mean that we all don't have to do math now? Seriously? Who CARES? Well, besides this ... professor, that is.
Quote:Further, she says mathematics operates with unearned privilege in society, “just like whiteness.”
What? I would like to hear the context for this particular statement because I don't see how it makes sense.
And let me add my obligatory, there's no such thing as white privilege.
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