STEM is rife in racism Are math and misogyny marred? It seems there’s a good chance, judging by a policy at Durham University.
As part of the UK college’s “decolonization,” math professors are being asked to check themselves before they wreKKK themselves.
The Telegraph reported that a guide provides direction as follows:
The process of decolonizing mathematics curriculum involves considering cultural roots and the notation that we use most often.
The outlet is:
Scholars…have been urged to reconsider how “the power of 10, represented by the word ‘billion,’ differs from country to country” and how Brahmagupta, the famed Indian mathematician, assigned a different meaning to the value of zero.
Instructors are informed that “the question of whether we have allowed Western mathematicians to dominate in our discipline is no less relevant than whether we have allowed Western authors to dominate the field of literature.”
“It may even be more important,” the manual makes clear, “if only because mathematics is rather more central to the advancement of science than is literature.”
And what if an educator is citing an expert who’s particularly pale? Consider second thoughts.
Staff are urged to consider giving short biographies of the mathematicians whose work they present in their modules and are encouraged to question themselves if they choose predominantly “white and/or male” figures.
If the mathematicians are “almost entirely (or even completely) white and/or male, ask yourself why this is,” the guide states.
Teachers are also told to “consider whether [they] can present the context outside of a Western frame of reference.”
Faculty are offered the instance of Simpson’s paradox. It’s often illustrated via Titanic survivors and American college enrollment. But Durham recommends using the “underrepresentation of Maori in New Zealand jury pools,” which “decenters Europe.”
Speaking to The Telegraph, Exeter University social sciences Professor Doug Stokes lays out the revision’s virtue:
“The idea behind decolonizing maths is that because everyone should be regarded as equal, the status of their beliefs must also be equal. This judgmental relativism is an inversion of science that is based on what is real rather than making everybody feel included.”
Not long ago, decolonization wasn’t deemed necessary. The increasing colorblindness of our culture seemed to have made everything go horribly. Then suddenly, we were informed we’re either evil oppressors or tragic victims unable to societally succeed. In the name of equity, non-negotiable equity must be the cause of the destruction.
In academia particularly, they’re deplatforming the plantations:
University Gives Students Antiracist ‘Tips and Tricks’ so They Can ‘Decolonize’ Campus
This Week in Woke History: A World Renowned Museum Collection Gets Removed, AKA ‘Decolonized’
Colorado University Hosts Teacher Training to Fight the ‘White Supremacy’ of ‘Productivity’
California Eyes ‘Ethnic Studies’ School Curriculum to Challenge ‘Racist, Bigoted, Discriminatory, Imperialist/Colonial Beliefs’
In math, there’s a particular purge at play:
Collegiate Eyes: Teaching Science and Mathematics Through the Prism of Colonialism, White Supremacy
Major University Professor Fights Math’s ‘Harbor for Whiteness’
School District Hosts Year-Long Anti-Whiteness Training to Fight ‘Curricular Violence’ in Math
Bill Gates Issues a Big Check to Discredit Objective Math’s Capitalism, Racism, and Capitalism
At Durham University, they’re colossally cleaning house:
Many departments of Durham, like most British universities have decolonizing panels. Durham University Business School has said that by 2022/23, no student will be able to complete a degree there “without significant exposure” to decolonization issues.
The college spokesperson pointed out the following:
“The maths curriculum our students learn remains the same, but we also encourage students to be more aware of the global and diverse origins of the subject, and the range of cultural settings that have shaped it. Two plus two will always equal four.”
Math minus white men will most likely equal woke.
-ALEX
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