I think it's important to distinguish between what the university is actually asking academics to do, and what politically charged commentators are then adding

I think it's important to distinguish between what the university is actually asking academics to do, and what politically charged commentators are then adding to it and getting themselves (and some commenters here) outraged by. I think it's important to have a bit of intelligence about how you actually engage with this topic because what we have here is an article written by someone who clearly has an agenda and links out basically to his own other writing on the topic (as well as a culture war piece in a right wing newspaper), but doesn't link out to relevant things - such as the actual guidance the university is giving. I actually think this article does a great job of demonstrating how culture war topics are stoked completely detatched from the reality of what is happening. It takes together a few choice quotes about "whiteness" and "color-blindness" but if you want to actually what the people who said those things mean you get linked to another article on the same site taking even more things out of context and never actually linking back to what the person meant. And if you do finally get out of the self-referential hell hole you bounce over to some article in the Telegraph which does exactly the same job of pulling out a load of out of context quotes designed to enrage their audience, since that's the job of British newspapers. So let's trace that claim - Durham university decolonizing curriculum - link to the Telegraph and The College Fix. The College Fix appears to basically be a far right US site of very questionable quality and this article in particular doesn't have a byline. I'm a bit confused why a far right US site is reporting on British universities in the first place but ok. What does it say? It just quotes the telegraph. Great, so the Telegraph article, it references a decolonization campaign - with a link! Let's follow the link.... Oh it's another article from the telegraph, but this time about how Jane Austen got dropped in favour of Toni Morrison at Stirling University. But it provides a link! Let's follow the link to finally get to the source of this! Oh look it's the Telgraph again, but this time it's not even journalism! It's an opinion piece! So Durham University decolonizing maths is actually Stirling University decolonizing English, and it's not even Stirling University decolonizing English, it's actually an opinion peice in the telegraph. But maybe I got the wrong link, let's look at the next link in the Telegraph article. Oh! It's not about Durham at all, but now it's about Oxford "decolonizing" by dropping imperial measurement units from the curriculum. It is very telling that there is no path way from these culture war articles to the actual guidance from Durham university. I think there's a discussion to be had about the impact of colonization and race on academia, but the basis of that conversation isn't going to start from this article.