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The problem is stemming from undermining the subject of math as a thinking tool, logic and all that. It's being done by talking about things that are not really
by proc0 4y ago
The problem is stemming from undermining the subject of math as a thinking tool, logic and all that. It's being done by talking about things that are not really math, as if it were math.
> for example some pioneers of statistics supported eugenics, or some mathematicians had connections to the slave trade, racism or Nazism
That's really a form of history, maybe social history or science history. At best it's mixing subject matters and potentially depriving people of learning math, and at worse it's pushing this ideology that has to see everything through the lens of oppressor and oppressed (not saying it's never useful, but the ideology seems to pushing itself into every corner of society and distorting everything it comes across).