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Oxford University has revealed plans to “decolonise” its maths and science degrees and will allow students of any subject who have been affected by the Black Lives Matter furore to seek lenient marking.
I tried finding the whole story on a site without a paywall but was unsuccessful.
Considering nothing I read in the first few paragraphs made any sense to any sane person I chalked it up to a victory.
The paywall article makes little sense.
My guess: it's saying that Oxford has finally agreed to the student body's request to have a more racially diverse curriculum. I guess this means more black writers will be included in the reading list in addition to Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde; and I honestly don't see it as a big deal.
Prof Richardson also told the Oxford students’ union that maths and science degrees had secured a grant to “decolonise” curriculums, calling it “an area that is frequently overlooked”.
She said: “Many departments in social sciences have begun work on making their curriculum more inclusive and adding diverse voices to it.
“This includes steps such as integrating race and gender questions into topics, embedding teaching on colonialism and empire into courses, changing reading lists to ensure substantial representation of a diverse range of voices, and ensuring better coverage of issues concerning the global South in syllabuses.”
My guess: it's saying that Oxford has finally agreed to the student body's request to have a more racially diverse curriculum. I guess this means more black writers will be included in the reading list in addition to Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde; and I honestly don't see it as a big deal.
"On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White," Gutierrez argued.
Gutierrez also worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege, fretting that "curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."
Math and science are problematic, especially math. There's just no way to pretend to be a mathematician. Either you're part of that 0.01% of humanity with a brain that can manipulate the most complex abstractions, or you're not. And there's just no getting around the fact that that 0.01% is heavily male and almost entirely white and Asian.
I tried finding the whole story on a site without a paywall but was unsuccessful.
Considering nothing I read in the first few paragraphs made any sense to any sane person I chalked it up to a victory.
Basically you can put in a mitigating circumstances form if you have been deeply effected by events and it will be considered, whilst the University will try and expand questions to include other cultures.
They are still going on and on about some tiny statue of Rhodes at a College in Oxford, and it's now reached the realms of stupidity.
If anything the police and courts are now obsessed with hate crime, and no one dare even looked at a BAME person the wrong way, whilst there are equality laws in terms of employment, education, housing, public services etc etc.
As for the police in Great Britain, they are largely unarmed and the only minority shot last year was a terrorist string to stab people to death in London, whilst the UK only averages one black death a year in custody and that's usually down to medical conditions, this is compared to 15 white deaths in custody last year. As for prison, the UK prison population is much smaller as a percentage than the US, and offenders are often given chance after chance before being imprisoned, and a lot of those in prison are in as a result of serious violent and sexual offences rather than petty offences.
As for statues that BLM have listed in the UK, it turns out most of them have nothing to do with slavery and are just nonsense related to the groups far left views rather than anything to do with slavery and black lives.
This whole thing is just pathetic nonsense.
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