Thread by @wesyang

Powerful framing here. "Traditionalists say..." "pure math inquiry should be neutral of politics..."

https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1468302760999366662

Did you know that recognizing and acting in accordance with the value-free operations of pure rationality is "traditionalism"?

Did you know that positing the value-free operation of pure rationality is itself a form of politics deeply complicit in Eurocentric colonial domination and therefore rightly referred to as "whiteness"?

Remember, USA Today was the corporate McPaper launched in the Reagan years with colorful photos and graphics written at a fourth grade level to appeal to the American mass