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I have long held the belief that "math does not care about your identity". On the other hand, math can be applied in discriminatory ways and I think we should b

I have long held the belief that "math does not care about your identity". On the other hand, math can be applied in discriminatory ways and I think we should be careful to recognize that and listen when people assert that math can be / is racist. Perhaps what they really mean is that a particular application or instruction of math is the problem, not the math itself. I'm never going to agree that the area of a square has an "opinion" about your identity or validates my "whiteness", but I fully recognize that ML/AI results can be poisoned by "problematic" training data and that an elementary school word problem can be confusing or hurtful if tacit dominant culture knowledge is assumed.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> I have long held the belief that "math does not care about your identity". Math doesn't. Teachers and systems of pedagogy[0], however, can even if the subject matter does not. [0] the former literally, and both metaphorically in the sense of “provide you different value in ways which are a function, in part, of”.