You showing your stripes when you quote Heidegger, btw. Total nazi.
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In math, a number of constructions are named after mathematicians who either utilized them in a fundamental way or discovered them: among them are Blaschke & Kähler (geometers whose Nazi apologism is well documented) 1/
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Teichmüller (a Nazi fanatic who was killed in combat on the Eastern front), Bieberbach (who heavily promoted the pseudoscience “Deutsche Mathematik” claiming Aryan superiority in mathematics, and others. 2/
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These names are well known and used everyday by mathematicians in their respective fields. Their ties to and support of the Nazi party - even decades after WW2 when the atrocities of the Holocaust were well known - has been well documented. (Google it). 3/
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All this to say: if a seemingly “pure” or “objective” discipline like mathematics has racist structures built into its foundations, then other disciplines are also likely to. Anti-racism education is relevant to all fields.
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@geodesicflow for teaching me about the Nazi mathematicians that are still held in high regard today. There are have been pushes to use descriptive titles rather than perpetuate “named” things in math that are associated with Nazis.Näytä tämä ketju
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Hollywood. Like, all of it.
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The worship of Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, Whitman and Melville as the consummate thinkers and not looking at their views on race, slavery, and Empire.
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^^ this, and fueled by reverence for a canon, view on philosophical import, and standard narrative that leaves out all but white men.
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