Oppressive Math

In which Rat is confused

Good time of day, humans!

For the past few days, this story has been making rounds on Substack:

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

We had a vague feeling something was off with this, and now we’re close to pinpointing the issue.

Transcript:

Human’s Human: — According to the modern version of this fairy tale, Snow White was violently oppressing an unknown number of dwarfs.
Human’s Human: — There used to be seven dwarfs, but now math is oppressive, too.
Rat: — I don’t understand. If math is oppressive, how will they know how much reparations they want?

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