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From what I found on google, that Dostoevsky quote is misattributed.

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Postmodernism is about deconstructing systems of power to discern how they change or continue over time, It's easy! See, I'll use it right now:

>> Everyone who benefits from the scheme of "trans" is either male or a "man." therefore it is a male supremacy movement. <<

Done, someone give me a PhD

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This isn't new. Lysenko was Joe Stalin's boy. His bullshit theories caused millions of Russians to starve. Why? Because he decreed that reality didn't comport with good Communist thought. He therefore decreed that reality wasn't real, or at least that reality had nothing to do with growing crops. Start with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

and next read

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-019-0422-5

If interested, download the article to which the second link refers. [reference 1 in the nature article] If these guys represent Chinese agricultural thought, they're in deeper weeds than I imagined.

That's what decolonizing STEM means: Who needs reality as long as you have dogma and a megaphone? And maybe little Greta Thunberg--to make you feel warm, fuzzy, and self-righteous?

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Seriously?

How many children in the west know the non-white origins of math and science?

How many know of Indian mathematicians like Aryabhata (0, place value), Baudayana (precursor to Pythagoras), Pingala (whom Fibonacci himself credits for his series), Kanada (who postulated atoms before the turn of the common era) I am sure Chinese and Middle East would have their list.

I am not woke, but in no text book in the US is there a nod to non -white scientists. Science seems to begin in the medieval west.

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This might be the funniest article I've read in 2023:

https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2023/professor-gosnell-combines-art-and-science-in-immersive-art-piece.html#.Y8dURkHMK3_

“As an astrophysicist, I'm a product of institutions that are steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy,” Gosnell says. “The tenets of white supremacy that show up [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism… it’s either-or thinking, and there's no subtlety, there's no gray area. All of this manifests in the way that we think about our research, and what counts as good research, what counts as important research?”

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