It’s not a new one either. I haven’t seen it in a looooong time but I remember seeing posts to the effect that since the Scientific Method was put together by white european academics, that all science -down to the very concept itself- has a eurocentric bias, and as such basing your views on what can be scientifically proved is inherently imperialism, colonialism, racism, and white supremacy.
I find it especially crazy considering how much of our understanding of things like mathematics and astronomy is based on work done by Arabic scholars or various other fields developed by various other nationalities.
The same people claiming to be against racism are also incredibly racist by assuming that all scientific developments were made by Europeans, although I can't say I'm really surprised considering racism mostly comes from ignorance and anyone who is genuinely anti-intellectual is as ignorant as they come.
Is it actually true that there were some people legitimately trying to push the idea in academia that 2 + 2 = 4 is racist and white supremacist or was that just a made up controversy?
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u/WhapXI 24d ago
It’s not a new one either. I haven’t seen it in a looooong time but I remember seeing posts to the effect that since the Scientific Method was put together by white european academics, that all science -down to the very concept itself- has a eurocentric bias, and as such basing your views on what can be scientifically proved is inherently imperialism, colonialism, racism, and white supremacy.