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^ It flows from the heart. You wouldn't understand.
Mathematics is a tool of oppression
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^ Pearl, Polya, and others, had the insight to embrace methods that created forms of meaning and understanding that nevertheless stopped short of formal demonstration.
But they remain trapped in the hetero-dogma that proof is the gold-standard, and humbly propose that their methods provide mere approximations of truth.
A further leap is needed to shatter the hegemonic discourse of mathematics.
If not today - the day of international women - then when?
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Also started the rise of betas.
It denies the centrality of emotion to reason, strips away subjectivities and context, and privileges the hetero-normative account wherein logic triumphs over feeling.
It allows us to reduce the human experience into cold numbers and symbols; makes space for the manipulation of ideas through cold, unthinking procedures that pay no heed to social meanings; and reduces the lived experience into a crude, calculating machine.
It is the handmaiden of gender oppression, reactionary conservatism, and totalitarianism. -
https://amp.thepostmillennial.com/two-plus-two-does-not-equal-five-no-matter-what-twitter-says/
The debate over double-speak has heated up to the point where leftists have actually been posting "2+2=5" without any hint of irony at all.
It began when James Lindsay, of New Discourses, posted a meme that read "2+2=4: A perspective in white, Western mathematics that marginalizes other possible values."
It led people to begin posting "2+2=5" instead.