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[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Politics would never be able to corrupt math. They could only corrupt the name (which is part of language) by replacing it. Math would be unharmed, it would just need a different name at that point. But any attempt to do so would be sure evidence that whatever power is involved needs to be eliminated.

[–]mvmlego[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, about that...

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/08/05/224-woke-academics-say-not-necessarily/

(EDIT: I'm not recommending the website as a whole, BTW. I just think this particular story is relevant and well-written.)

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

HOLY SHIT! COUTNING is now considered to be imperialistic. Not only could non-Europeans not figure out sex, but apparently they can't figure out counting either. It is true that base 10 and arabic numerals are choices, but at absolutely no time in the history of the universe has there been a discrepancy between any counting method such that 2+2 could equal anything other than 4 when measuring physical phenomona. Only abstract concepts and language allow for false math. But to say that 2+2 could ever legitimately equal 5?

These people are shooting themselves in the foot at this point, especially since they're mimicing 1984 so well

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)