Science is white, science is racist ! Proof !
That has nothing to do with privilege and race has no place in math...
It's also interesting that you consider having formulas named after white people being a "teachable moment about privilege," and then when it's an Indian it's a "positive conversation about race."
Man I'm glad I finished school before this shit started happening.
The post modern sociological analysis of the sciences is ridiculed because it has repeatedly been proven to be mostly gibberish that even people who are supposedly are "in the know" don't really understand at all.
As it has been so painfully demonstrated by the Sokal Affair.
The criticism of abstract mathematics not having "real life" applications purely comes from people that a) never paid attention in math class, b) people who for various reasons never connected personally with math or chosen to further their education in fields that have no applications for it (despite of the fact that many social studies require people to take statistics, they still somehow manage to graduate without actually understanding the subject).
Absolutely nothing you learn in math during the first 10 to 12 years of your education is superfluous. The applications are all around you on a daily basis, people just chose not to use it, because you can get away with not using it by downloading a couple of apps, using a calculator or cheaply hiring a "specialist".
The "I can't do my taxes or balance my account" doesn't have anything to do with mathematics and is a compounded problem between the complexity of highly specialized modern legal systems and the highly opaque and complex nature of the financial sector. It has nothing to do with mathematics. A 6th grader has been taught everything required to calculate your taxes and balance your accounts from a purely mathematical stand-point.
Now you can have a conversation about better explaining to people what are the applications of the math they are studying, but that doesn't have single damn thing to do with race.
But I want to swing back a bit to the whole "this realm of thought doesn't make sense to outsiders" and that "it's highly technical". It doesn't make sense to outsiders because it fails basic logic checks and is based on a in-group quasi philosophical consensus that is borderline religious in its requirement to suspend observational evidence and its obsession with subjective belief.
The "highly technical" jargon it uses, is there to give it an appearance of legitimacy and borrows from scientific terminology for that reason, but it neither understands or uses it correctly.
It's in essence the same thing Creationists do with the word "theory", just that they use it to delegitimize science, instead of adopting the terminology to legitimize their make belief nonsense.
So, if all you are doing is a make-belief circle jerk that isn't intended for or comprehensible to anyone who isn't in your make-belief club, do not apply that incomprehensible nonsense to something as important as....How we structure and approach education.
Last edited by Mihalik; 2018-03-15 at 04:57 AM.
Considering the state of Japanese society I'm not entirely convinced that's a good thing. You're praising a country in which their young people don't even socialize anymore and they're experiencing negative population growth because of that and strict immigration laws.
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Japan is in example to follow in absolutely fucking nothing, when it comes to social structure and development, as it is a slow moving train crash in full HD, where the severity of the crisis is obscured by how slow moving it is.
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Huh? So do -isms belong or not in science? And what the hell does her insane New Age Post Colonial (which by the way is a completely western construct) nonsense have to do with white supremacists?
The Deutsche Pysik went the way the of the dinosaur as soon as the Nazis needed to...you know...do physics for the war effort.
I don’t know Mihalik you seem to have a great instincts but on this I have to admit I’m baffled by you here. Japan is one of the few countries where I see shops openly displaying their merchandise on the street without fear of it being stolen at all. That’s pretty damn impressive for a major city.
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Sorry I mean isms “don’t” belong in science.* Because science has been used as a tool for hate and oppression by very stupid people that’s why. This woman is part of the result from that.
Science is knowledge and a process. She doesn’t know that because nobody taught her.
Last edited by Doctor Amadeus; 2018-03-15 at 05:16 AM.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
Where do you live? Like seriously? Have you ever been to a ...market or a fair...or a public trade show?
Allow me to introduce you to a flea market in New York City.
Or this street market in Spain.
Alas, low crime rates have very little to do with social development, and are mostly about income levels. If we say low crime rates are the byproduct of a successful society we might as well start chopping thief's hands off and take most legal rights away from women, after all the Saudis have next to no petty crime, clearly their society is a great success. Everything is super calm and orderly.
Last edited by Doctor Amadeus; 2018-03-15 at 05:40 AM.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
Neither are the New York markets or the European markets "temporary". Once again, you have an extremely warped view of public safety. I have been to Japan, the general public safety is completely unremarkable when compared to places like Switzerland, The Hamptons, Amsterdam, Madrid, Dubai or Seoul. Do you notice a trend there? High income. How that public safety is achieved varies, it could be strict policing or honor systems, the end result is the same, the incentive to commit a crime is low.
Also the lack of public safety in Japan manifests itself differently via aspects tourists or even foreigners living there might not be exposed to...like CHILD PROSTITUTION, and illegal gambling which are while technically illegal are rampant and almost completely ignored by the authorities. I don't know about you, but I prefer the occasional shop lifter over the "occasional" child prostitute.
Japanese public safety is neither exceptional or particularity high when compared to countries with similar income levels. On the other hand the widespread child prostitution problem is outstandingly and exceptionally problematic when compared to countries with similar income levels. As is their ridiculous suicide rates, levels of social isolation, mental illness, rampant and furious sexism both in private life and public life and especially at the work place. Then you have the birthrate issue and the utterly unsustainable public debt which will sooner or later implode (the Japanese know this too, at this point it's not a question of economics, but a question of demographics).
You seem to suffer from a bit of weeabooism. Which funny enough is one of the age old Western racist tropes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
Don't worry, her incredible racism will just turn even more people to the Right side.