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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 21:40:01 JST Aral Balkan

   We shouldn’t be teaching colonialism in history class.

   We should be teaching it in every class.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 21:45:54 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Hayo :donor: 🇪🇺

     @hayo https://theconversation.com/yes-mathematics-can-be-decolonised-heres-how-to-begin-65963

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     Hayo :donor: 🇪🇺 (hayo@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 21:45:55 JST Hayo :donor: 🇪🇺

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     @aral So how would you integrate it in a Mathematics class?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 21:47:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Hayo :donor: 🇪🇺

     @hayo https://oxfordandcolonialism.web.ox.ac.uk/mathematics

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     Will Beason (willbeason@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 22:43:55 JST Will Beason

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     @aral I wanted to "um, actually" this but I honestly can't think of a subject that wouldn't be improved by some discussion of colonialism.
     - Biology? Eugenics, brah.
     - Art? Where do you think all the "native" art came from, and what do you think happened to the people who made it?
     -Physics? Boy have I got a story to tell you about the real motivations of dropping the atomic bombs.
     - English? Hey, want to hear why Scottish almost became a dead language? (A lone survivor from many)

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     Pusher Of Pixels (pixelpusher220@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 23:02:00 JST Pusher Of Pixels

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     • Will Beason

     @willbeason @aral Just saw a story about how when a western person created the first Thai typewriter, they "couldn't fit" 2 consonants...so they just left them out - causing them to become effectively obsolete and no longer used in the language

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