Anonymous wrote:
EthnomathematicsGood lord, this sounds like it was practically designed to sabotage the prospects for minorities to excel in mathematics, by encouraging them to waste their efforts on nonsense and useless trivia.
"Math be for whitey, Excel be for Microsoft whiteys and Chinks."
Seriously, this flap is old news. I remember about a dozen years ago when some feminista professor was teaching "female-oriented physics." Actually, she was _advocating_ the teaching of female-oriented physics.
Her shtick was that classical physics is a "male rape fantasy," complete with "forces" and the planets being "pushed around" in their orbits. (Showing, amongst other things, that she didn't know about geodesics and least action principles.)
She advocating reframing physics in terms of "envelopment" ("planets move as the Mother envelopes them") and "nurturing" ("objects fall in order to be closer to the Mother") and "vagino-centric" principles.
It was just this kind of postmodern, deconstructionist crap which made the Sokal hoax so timely (the one about the implications of Marxist ideology, blah blah, for string theory!).
Frankly, if the inner city welfare mutants wish to study "ebonomathematics," I'm all for it.
The negro leaders in America are doing a very good job of putting the "nigger" back in the negro.
Here's an image the censors are already trying to get removed:
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--Tim
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the
people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some
rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no
majority has a right to deprive them of." -- Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789
