If you're missing a truly idiotic take on Orwell, and would like it topped off with a quote from an awful Douglas Adams book (and I say that as a huge Hitchhiker's fan), that the tweeter can't even be bothered to get close to right then, man, is this the thread for you.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1290034984871321600 …
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It still amazes me that it took these idiots until the point where they were, literally, arguing that 2+2=5 to see the parallels with Orwell. Even more amazing is that, when they did, they decided that Orwell was the problem.
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That is not what happened You have the order of events backwards, people were talking about reforming the mathematics curriculum and talking about how subjectivity always exists in any discipline, including math
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Which led to the James Lindsay Brigade sounding the Orwell Alarm and jumping and shouting "They'll be saying 2+2=5 next" and all that And Kareem Carr, an actual mathematician in academia, took the bait and said "Okay real mathematicians wouldn't have any problem with that"
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And people like you are still losing their minds over it
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Including this weird inability to get that, yes, everyone all along has known that this was about the Orwell cliché "They don't even realize this is JUST LIKE 1984" Of course I fucking realize How could anyone not realize, you people literally never stop talking about it
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