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First of all the idea that "white" = "colonizing", "non-white" = "colonized" is in itself racist and wrong. There have been hundreds of racially "white" populat
by ajuc 5y ago
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.
- mikevm 5y ago[flagged]
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- ajuc 5y agoMeh. I've seen accusations of marxism far more often than pleas for decolonization of non-colonizers, and for far dumber reasons.
- notimrelakatos 5y ago> 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.
- antifa 5y ago[flagged]
- _-david-_ 5y agoMarxist want you to read history through their bias lenses. They don't want you try to read history as objectively as possible.
- antifa 5y ago[flagged]
- dang 5y agoPlease 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoI get what you're saying but this is all way past Marx now.
- dang 5y agoPlease 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zozbot234 5y agoIt'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.
- bobthechef 5y agoIndeed, 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 https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=slave [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe