Sophie Corcoran fumes at Durham University's 'anti-white racism'
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Durham University's department of mathematical sciences has published a guide on ‘decolonisation’, urging academics to ensure their teaching is "more inclusive" and not dominated by a Eurocentric view on the world.
The guide advisers lecturers to: "Consider giving short biographies of the mathematicians whose work you present in your modules. If in doing so you realise that they are almost entirely (or even completely) white and/or male, ask yourself why this is.
"See if you can find contributions to the field from mathematicians of other genders/ethnicities."
Kevin O'Sullivan picks over the findings with Durham student and political commentator Sophie Corcoran.
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What a breath of fresh air Sophie is. SO pleased there are serious thinkers still in amongst the younger generation.👏👏
We done for Speaking out about this Sophie. You have my support it’s beyond a joke now.👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'm glad there are still some youngsters like this 👍
Amen.
AGREED & THEY NEED TO BE NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT .WELL DONE .
@Macavity because I am it makes a nice change from the usual offended bed wetting spoilt little agree with me or I will cry youngsters I see every day
The world needs more Sophie's! 👏👏👍
We're a country of whites, why the self hatred? So strange.
Was a country of whites . 🙄
I don't hate myself. The legions of uninvited foreigners do though.
Cultural Marxism
Because they're incentivised to be as such by an anti-White system. Never forget you live under a government that has spent decades covering up the mass industrial r**e of English schoolgirls
the cameron government ~2010 decided that there is no native people(s) of the british isles. despite there being mountains of evidence to the contrary. this essentially means that this isn't a white country. the prelude to any genocide is denying the existence of a people/group
I’m Indigenous South American and I don’t want these insane woke people fighting on my behalf!
They’re doing more harm than good for racial harmony.
Well done Sophie.
I'm Northern Irish and I agree what good will be done by erasing white people from their own culture
I am A Woman and feel the same as you too, it's all gone nuts where it is just about respect for all, which includes everyone not just a few pushing an agender.
100%
Good on you Sophie, more students should be speaking out about this nonsense. My niece has been "cancelled" from the Isle of Mann College just for saying she was sick of the woke nonsense. Bunch of idiots.
Tell your niece plenty of people are behind her.
Shes a cracking mp
In situations like this you can only parade your opinions and wear them like a flag and hope a friend sees it. get a T-shirt printed saying "anti-woke conversation here" start a war... I would... I wonder if these people realise that 'cancel culture' based on race is as modern day "concentration camp" as they can get away... But they deflect and call everybody else the nazi... I'd say it's a childish tactic but we have been falling for it for decades so it clearly be works....
Shouldn't that now be the "Isle Of Non Binaries" the bigots!😡
I hope she finds a human rights lawyer to fight them, pro bono. That is a complete disgrace and a shameful thing in a so-called free society. Opinions are not compulsory!
"Math is racist" translation = "I didn't score as well as you did and working harder is too much effort so I want free points or else you're racist!"
Happening everywhere
This is a spit in the face for those who have dyscalculia
Except asian students typically score highest.
Brilliant sum up
I’m laughing myself to death, if this doesn’t encourage racism then I don’t know what will. What the hell is wrong with these universities. Crazy fruit nuts 😂😂🤣🤣
The wife beater excuse: "You made me do it"
That's the whole point: encouraging racism.
Cultural Marxism has completely taken over our institutions, now you know how the Germans felt.
There is nothing wrong with them. Everything is right and proper.
@@Jafmanz that does not seem to the consensus of the majority. Only left wing nutters that won’t to try convince the country that lies are truths! Ffs these people are insane
Racist tutors who insist on identity politics need to be fired. And charged for hate crimes.
And fined £000s
Agreed…100 percent.
I just head about this story. It's beyond appalling. Mathematics is one of the most beautiful fields of human endeavour. It's one of the few truly meritocratic fields where anyone can make an impact, if their ideas are good enough. To suggest that it needs "decolonizing" is racist rubbish. Gauss, Euler, Newton, Leibniz.... we should be praising these people for the incredible contributions they have made to our society, not trying to hide their achievements because they're not black enough. I'm truly sick of this woke insanity. Well done Sophie for speaking up.
Was there anything preventing the good inhabitants of Africa developing differential calculus for themselves, and then teaching it to us? If so, I wonder what it could have been.
@@gilessteve I think I know the answer.
@@gilessteve come on. What’s your answer?
@@jonathanboulter615 I don't know. What's yours?
@@gilessteve ok. Firstly our numeric system was invented in India and introduced to Europe by Arab mathematicians. Secondly the inhabitants of Africa clearly had and used mathematics. Have you seen the pyramids? So the idea that Europeans invented maths is false. But we were the first civilisations to industrialise (the Chinese were close centuries earlier but were invaded) providing more freedom and cash for academic pursuits and more applications for such. And a degree of freedom from religious dogma claiming to have all the answers helped. So that’s my take. But I’m sure it has some flaws as I’m no expert. What’s yours?
Can't argue with her... She's talking facts
Isnt maths from China?
@@tphvox Greece & Persia
@@romulus3345 yeah I know I realised after I said it lol ......I did actually put after In another one that it was ancient greece
@ scotsman, if you are white......
@@tphvox Our numbers are based on the Arabic ones and we use the Roman alphabet. Ancient mathematical ideas came from (surprise, surprise) ancient cultures/early civilisations who were most likely somewhat darker than today's northern Europeans. Some ideas would no doubt have come from the Chinese, and the traders who brought them to the west would today have been referred to as colonisers and despiced.
WELL DONE Sophie for standing up to this nonsense. I'm an British Indian and totally disagree with the University. I can assure you that most Asian people would disagree with this nonsense also. They always call white people racist or bigots, when you have strong conservative views or are patriotic. God Bless you.
Tis ironic thinking your bootlickery will curry favour with these folks, to them you and your kith and kin will never be ‘British’ no matter how much you pander
She says decolonisation means nothing. So why is she talking about it? Talk radio hates anything that would make ALL residents of this country feel welcome. Remember most of the people on the dole are white. A higher percentage of ethnic minorities attend higher education cause hard work is the legacy of the colonised and sitting on your arse is the legacy of the colonisers.
I'm also British Indian and I can assure you we are not part of the lobby that wants to tear down the history of this country - even though India were under their rule for over 200 years.
@@aks2752 Well you can't speak for your entire ethnic group either.
@@therespectedlex9794 i think you will find the Indians r very respective to us white ppl, think they may b of darker heritage that r challenging to our maths ect ect
I used to be proud of being a Durham graduate, but that was before they went down this insane path. It was when they focused on learning and pushing students to achieve academically. Now? If they ever call me up again begging for money, they can go whistle for it. I want nothing more to do with them.
Lot of Chinese students when I visited Durham, almost 7 years ago. A few Madam Mao's... miserable cows.
Me too
So you should be. Great red brick, prestigious University. Unfortunately now being poisoned, just like the University of Manchester.
Ditto that.
I like this girl, she speaks common sense.
God bless this girl. Speaking the truth. What the hell is happening to our education system?
The same thing that is happening to the US educational system, unfortunately. They have imported this woke nonsense wholesale. And it has no business being here, because this part of the world is native white.
It’s being dismantled and in it’s place an indoctrination/propaganda machine comes into place. It’s so sick.. The racists are actually running the show now
Cultural Marxism has completely taken over our institutions, now you know how the Germans felt.
@@Tondaloona03 Marxists, Fabians... the World Bank
@@Tondaloona03 Labour haven't been in power for almost 13 years. And, in fact, have only had 13 years in government in over 4 decades - but yeah, Labour, eh.
What IS their problem? The numerals we use are ARABIC numerals!!!! Furthermore, the numerals Arabs use are actually HINDI numerals. These silly little middle class numpties at Durham could do with a good dose of historical, cultural awareness. Sophie has my deepest sympathies.
How do possibly 'decolonise' maths..? Maths is abstract logic.
Black people don't have logic lol.
They want to take roles away from white people and specifically white males, it’s a war being waged suthin
@PGH Engineer May as well add Newton, Leibnitz, Reimann, and Euclid too whilst we're there.
2+2=5... that's how you decolonise it.
@@duncankilburn7612 Have you not noticed that they want to destroy truth & logic. This is why if you don't agree that men can now become pregnant then you're a Homophobic, Transphobe, Waycist, Nazi, according to the Marxist maggots.
Decolonise? Think these students and dept. heads require colonic irrigation judging by the amount of brown stuff these people are talking.
Minorities are vastly over-represented at Durham. How about addressing that and getting more working class white boys in?
Men*
Next English language will be banned for being too "English"
That may happen. Saw a video on TH-cam where a woman who'd emigrated to Denmark lists reasons why she's decided not to stay there, one of the reasons is that Danes speak Danish in Denmark.
The English language has been more extensively invaded than any other language, by "foreign" words.
Is this not attacking the British and English Culture.
Who's behind this?
Yes, English history is being wiped of the face of the earth to be replaced by a pack of lies
It's worse than that. It's attacking Mathematics. They want 2+2=5.
Our own culture going, yet more people in this country seem more concerned with Ukrainian culture and their freedoms staying intact
@@Wako83 extremely left politics
That young woman is pure brilliance! And lovely with it. Keep us posted on her progress through her course. Peace be unto you.
@ Macavity: you’re the only one around here that lacks understanding.
@@MrPercy112 You are not sure about that, are you? Peace be unto you.
@Martin Warner: rather an odd remark that? However, I’m pretty sure about Macavity. Peace be unto you too.
Decolonise in my head means send them all back
Spot on.
But not many black people agree with this. Where are you going to send all the English people peddling this tripe back to? To their wombs lol
She says decolonisation means nothing. So why is she talking about it? Talk radio hates anything that would make ALL residents of this country feel welcome. Remember most of the people on the dole are white. A higher percentage of ethnic minorities attend higher education cause hard work is the legacy of the colonised and sitting on your arse is the legacy of the colonisers.
You gonna keep deleting challenging posts. LOL
There's a huge lack of diversity in India, Africa, Japan, China and so many other countries but that isn't a "problem" because those countries are not predominantly white
We need to import more diversity until we get a mix that meets the quotas, we probably need around three hundred million on this tiny island, just to get close.
I volunteer to move to Italy if someone will pay for a nice villa and all moving costs
@@cloverite Its good to see someone prepared to take one for Team GB :p
Diversity = anti white
@@cloverite Good call 👍
Since when did 'decolonisation' mean replacing a country's 2-3,000+ years native inhabitants and their culture with non-native newcomers who'd never been anywhere near the place before?
Can't she sue for the racism against her???
Best of British luck to you Sophie, stay strong in the face of that fascistic racist adversity 👍
What a darling, be who you are young girl, don't ever change.
A warning to parents: advise your children NOT to go to university. Instead, to go to a technical college and learn something useful.
@Macavity: oh forget it, I just can’t be arsed, you’re just too tedious for words ...
@Macavity Slither back under your rock! with the other spineless slugs!
Love Sophie. The world needs more voices like hers.
@Macavity she’s saying all the rubbish wokeness the universities are pushing about everything done by anyone white in history is racist and it’s actually anti white no pro anything else. How can maths by racist it’s just numbers.
@Macavity well watch the video Phil.
@Macavity: you keep asking the same question, ’though I’d wager you ain’t interested in any answer, other than as a springboard for some of your nonsense, right?
@@temmywingwong684 🤣😂😅😆😁
Thank god my daughter decided against going to University last year. She is currently working 40 hours a week to rake in the cash before deciding what to do next.
Respect to Sophie, smart girl unlike the dimwits that fall for this nonsense, shame on the tutors that push it
hasnt no one figured it out yet this is england .... a white .christian country .if you want to spew bile go spew it elsewhere u pricks .JTBH
@Macavity I could, sounds like you wouldn't understand it if I did, you obviously believe the bollox🤣🤣
@Macavity what are you talking about ? Explain your point
@Macavity You can't clarify your point it's obviously a struggle for you so I can only guess - the interview never suggested she wouldn't ' get' a maths degree or a part of it so your question makes no sense, if you believe maths is racist and needs to be decolonised you would be a moron and a victim of mindless group think, any attempt to justify your position will be very interesting but give it a try, I need a good laugh
@Macavity thought so, you're done😅🤣🤣🤣
Wow Sophie is so sane it's amazing 😁
Oh Sweet Sophie, I feel for you! I can't even imagine............
This young lady is brilliant...someone needs to write a part for her and put her on stage, or in a movie.
Concoran could sell her image to a scarecrow company and rake in the cash. I’ve never seen a woman this ugly. Red nose, no lips, red hair and pasty.
So sad to see how brainwashed the youth is.
Blame social media
My 19 y old niece like all of her friends wanted kids and was very girly straight until she went to college. Now she’s gay identitys as trans nonbinary, neurodivergent pronouns they/them ,has legally changed her name all of her friends have all done exactly the same. She will never have kids because bringing more white privilege into the world is evil. Believes we need mass immigration to dilute the white population, housing should be prioritised based on skin colour.Being straight and white is ableist and is the worst and being straight and white myself I and others like me need to be alert to the fact that our presence can make those from the LGBTQi and bame community’s feel unsafe and being around straight people causes her trauma
Absolutely love this gurl. She's spot on the mark. Bloody well done Sophie. 💪😎
@Macavity: is that you lurking under bridges again?
@@MrPercy112 More like a rock!
These Durham students are some of the most privileged in the country. They need to be kicked out PDQ and replaced with deserving working class kids who will work hard and get good and useful degrees.
TrePolPen ......my beautiful white "working class" niece went to uni to earn her degree.........she came out all woke......makes me want to weep.
@@geoffdundee Sorry to hear that. If the present woke crowd were kicked along along with the even more woke acaademics
@Macavity Exactly what it says.
How do you decolonise anything in a country and system that was never colonised? Sophie is absolutely correct when she says it is anti-white racism,
Spot on! Well said, I'm fed up with the misuse of the word decolonise
I’m all for the actual de-colonisation of the UK, as that would mean removing the many colonies of non-integrated foreigners preying upon our native girls in the northern cities of England and clearing-out the ghettos of London.
Britain was colonized by the Romans 1900 years ago. Time to get rid of the roads & plumbing system.
You do so by disenfranchising, dispossessing and displacing White people. It's genocidal rhetoric and should be interpreted as such.
U do realise we had an empire right? Which consists of colonies..? Our legal, educational and political systems are inherited from that time. Hence Windrush, the inability to process Ukranian immigrants etc.
What's the deal with students telling professors what they will allow them to teach? Are silly teenagers with no life skills really telling 60 year olds what they will accept being taught?
Next thing you know they'll claim Isaac Newton was actually black.
He was hit on the head by a mango. Not an apple. Didn't you know that?
He was wasn't he.
Don't give Netflix any excuses...
Nah, they'll claim that he got his ideas about gravity by having sex with apples....
Already done. Dr Who.
When I visited Durham university I was astonished at the instructions on how to use the lavatory printed on the cubicle wall.
It says a great deal about the intellect of the students.
I work at a University. A contributing factor to this is the ineptitude and simple-mindedness of most professional services staff. Most of them have zero experience of work or life outside of the HE sector, and have had no exposure to the complex machinations of culture at all - they can generally be described as students 'who forgot to leave' at the end of their course, took a job a University administration department and progressed to a position at odds their experience or intellect. Having individuals with poor knowledge of culture, society or humans in general, outside of the UK's dire curriculum, is a recipe for disaster and leaves them completely vulnerable to viscious far left idealogues who force their political values on University leadership teams who don't know any better, and have no resilience of character to say no to anything or anyone.
So........?
They are morons?
Well done for saying this so succinctly
@@neilewart4347 Ta
Bang on. Same goes for politicians
You are 100% correct. Spent years lecturing and having come from the private sector I always took the attitude that is was ultimately training people to excel within the environment of gainful employment. It turned out that at the University level the only thing that mattered during class time was how much fairy tale ideology and misguided activism you could inject into your classes. The real world means nothing to modern academia. The only thing they truly understand is funding cuts.
Disruptive students should be suspended until they can prove they can behave like adults.
Great guest we need more people like this lady speaking more sense on the mainstream media
Yeah, subjects like Mathematics are difficult when you have a basic IQ of 70 or below...
This is happening at my university in Canada. I just saw a diversity, inclusion govt funded opportunity that excludes anyone who is white, straight, Christian and not disabled. How is that not discrimination?
Absolute lunacy.
How have we got this far. Why are we ashamed of who we are. I never thought of people as different but this is causing racism.
Normal English folk are not ashamed of who we are, it's the stupid lefties pretending they are
Explain in your own words, Macavity, why trolling excites you so? Getting bored under that bridge, uh?
@Macavity Slither back under your rock!
I'm not ashamed, never have been so surprised that such ideas ever got traction. The logical error is that people are responsible for historical or group crime which they are not. Applied to any other group it would easily be seen as racism.
@@MrPercy112 That remark is a universal remark which could be applied to anybody anywhere about anything including yourself. So MrPercy explain in your own words why trolling excites you. Is it the effortless of it?
When I was a kid I used to wonder how something as well organised.....disciplined......powerful as the Roman Empire finally fell.....Now I'm beginning to understand why!
Every empire that embraced multiculturalism- then collapsed
gary lons They became Italians, nuff said!
This has come about over years of making qualifications easier to get attracting a lot of the thickos like they have at durham
This is actually terrifying. Paying students to be quislings with the aim of thought-policing other students. Grotesque.
but who is paying them china? its a war takeover from the inside by stealth
Agreed.
Everywhere these days are too white. You'd think we lived in Africa. As a country we are starting to lose the plot and be a lot like America. World full of copy cats. I tend to ignore the noise and crazy and just get on with my life. Always good to know which uni to avoid.
I'm so glad to see a young lady who does not follow the herd, but thinks for herself. Keep going Sophie!
Well done her I hope that others at her university will speak out and defend her ❤
We should no longer be reproached for our past actions (in a way that’s unrepairable) but know how to repair our relationships gradually. Horrid ppl/leaders shitted on us causing segregation and ruined our friendships. Apartheid was immoral and rejecting anyone who’s based
@@andybray9791 in the same way black people aren't judged for the barbary slave trade! A slave trade that was thriving long before the Atlantic slave trade.
@@daveytrump6516 Martin Luther king was a fantastic anti racial campaigner (I liked him when taught in school) but the sjws are knockoffs
Sophie gives me some faith in the upcoming generation. Sadly she's facing a near vertical uphill struggle
Welcome to Guilt Gate
"uphill struggle" - and if she wants to work out the exact gradient of that hill, she'll probably need to use ideas of geometry first developed by the Greeks.
I’d love to meet this lady and shake her hand for addressing this. No doubt they’ll go after her now. 👏
This all started back in the 90s when students were allowed to ‘negotiate’ their training. How can you negotiate what you don’t know?
They dont want to learn, they just cant hack it. It's easier to disrupt.
You have to understand this to fight it, diversity does not include whites.
they are just replaying the cultural revolution where kids where divided according to their parents
class in red or black class.
Those who had the misfortune of having "priviledged" family where tainted.
Diversity in this context means minorities are the new (honorable) red class, and whites are
black class, and thaat means they sould be discriminated to compensate the past.
Diversity is the rise of every other group to the cost of the opressor (they see it that way).
Well said. It's the crazy times we live in. I'm 65 yrs old and in the past have worked with people who were Maori, Indian, Chinese, Malaysian, etc and they were good friends as well as colleagues. Its the stupid and dangerous few who actually cause more racism by pushing their agenda down people's throats. It's up to the sensible among us to ignore such dangerous moves and simply try our best to treat everyone as people not sort everything like a colour chart from a paint store.
These academics need to be in the armed forces for a while where colour plays second fiddle to reliable, resourceful and dependable.
A pleasure to listen to intelligent reasoned conversation
The most remarkable thing about these people is their ignorance of the subject. Do they realise that the concept of zero came from HIndu mathematicians in India? Do they know what superb mathematicians the Babylonians were (they gave us 60 seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour)?. Do they know about Ramanujan, who was brought to the UK from India because of his originality and brilliance?
A huge amount of maths came from the middle east. look up the etymology of the word algebra!
@@chelfyn that's true. Remember Europeans think they invented everything. They forget that they didn't even have hygiene in the dark ages and how the Moors bought education back to Europe.
Zero from Africa. Really makes you think....
What about wakanda
@@fatbass22 its a fictional place thought up by a Jewish comic book writer.
Why isn’t the government doing something about this?
Because they hate you white man.
They are. This is it lmfao.
Because they are complicit!
@@stevebird7265 Governments change, it's up to us!
Torries encourage this. Only labour will stop it
WOW What a breath of fresh air is Sophie! I only just came across her yesterday after she appeared on Outsiders on SKY News Australia. So great to see a young person talking sense.
They are all a sandwich short of a picnic.
The cringe fest continues
I personally know someone who attended Durham uni who is very very clever but a total bell end to boot. You feel abused after conversations because he can argue aggressively at a constant rate churning out verbal bilge trying to force his leftist views down your throat. The latest thing now is get a masters in ‘social justice ,which is time spent going to the greatest of lengths to write essays that blame everything but the individual for not achieving the highest academic grades. Thankfully for these taking the masters the more woke and lefty the higher the mark with lashings and lashings of racism, gender and ginger beer.
Ask yourself if you want to ride an elevator designed by a decolonized math student....
Despite being over 80% majority made to feel like the minority.
CLEAR THEM OUT.
The birth rate is not 80%
This young lady is so interesting. Wish her all the best. Glad there are brilliant students like her .
The British Empire was in many respects a fine thing that brought medication, sanitation, education and much more to many parts of the world which were NOT doing fine. The Commonwealth was set up for the common good of all members. We don't go to Italy and take it out on the present-day Italians for the far worse terrible injustices of the Roman Empire. Virtue-signalling racial bitterness is pathetic and shows a sorry weakness of character.
Best comment! well said Annabelle Rankin!
@@sprinter1832 🤗
Were the millions of slaves a fine thing? The plantations? The forced famines? The displacement of thousands of people? The mass butchering of the thousands who resisted conquest? The concentration camps? The forced deindustrialisation? The forcing of colonial economies to depend on Britain for trade? The plundering and billions in profit stolen from these colonies to be sent back to the UK? Such an ahistorical claim to make it is literally insane. Maybe read a book or something.
@@azamatbagatov6858 Maybe find out what happened in reality instead of just the negative spin and with no reference to existing conditions before plantations, etc, etc. Maybe get over your prejudice or something. The economies of the past are not the ones of today - maybe recognise that progress takes many years to unfold, and is not all 'good' yet some improvements are indisputable. I live in a country that retains many systems that the British introduced, and they are still very beneficial and widely appreciated.
Funny thing is it's not anti white! It's actually really racist against black people! Imagine me saying that maths is only for people like me and because you don't look like me you'll never be able to do the same so we must make it easier for you!
Outstanding Group Leader ( "I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning . It smells of victory...")
@@MrDrbld I'm not being sarcastic! Because of the tone of my skin I am clearly better at things than people who don't have the same tone! I mean once I sunbathe and get a tan I become less intelligent than my albino friend! I'm super cereal!
@@MeYou-ut4kr Ah understood. However, you do not need to be so consciuosciuos about your skin colour unless it's something thant needs to be medically treated. Let's be colourblind.
@@MrDrbld You need to learn how to spell conciousness, you must have been unconcious when you spelt that!
@@MeYou-ut4kr 😅😆
Defund these Universities now
Totally agree 💯👍
"Answer not a fool according to his folly." (Proverbs). Just kick the fools out of office and make sure they stay there, while the sane folk get on with real life.
Thank goodness we still have intelligent young people like Sophie. We need people like her because the young people of today are our future.
I thought racism was illegal in UK?
Not as long as it is only coming this way apparently!
Not if its anti white
We've got three kids. We will be encouraging them to go into apprenticeships and learn a trade rather than go to university. Until the universities run out of money as less and less people pay their extortionate fees nothing will change...money talks!
"`See if you can find mathematicians from other ethnicities or gender" ... erm, OK, off the top of my head there is Srinivasa Ramanujan (he had a MOVIE made about him, you know!), Ada Lovelace (she is widely celebrated to this day), not to mention all the famous Arabic medieval mathematicians. If you want to know why there are many White mathematicians, ask yourself why we had the Enlightenment in Europe, whereas people like the Arabs who had once been so prevalent in the scientific fields turned their backs on everything in order to regress into hardcore theology. Maybe teach about that, rather than there being some sort of racial aspect to it. Honestly, are these people running our universities even educated? Can I just point out that Ramanujan had had no education and was Indian by birth, but his exceptional abilities were eventually recognised and we horrible, rac1st, white people got him a place at Cambridge University. .. During the First World War, by the way, when the rest of British White people were dying in trenches.
@Matthew Walker...part of the issue is, however, that the majority of people have no idea who Ramanujan or Lovelace were. They will however be able to name Pythagoras, Newton, Einstein, Pascale or Fibonacci...but not, Hypatia, Brahmangupta, Sophie Germain, Emmy Noether, al-Khwarizmi, Omar Khayyam.
So it's not the worst thing in the world to have a look at our curriculums and genuinely look at them with fresh eyes and see if there is material that we dont teach which we should or could be because it deserves to be in the curriculum because of the importance of the work. This is not about engineering the curriculum to teach subject matter that is irrelevant or of lesser quality, just to tick boxes, it should be about whether our curriculums are as good as they could be.
@@shelleyphilcox4743 It is precisely about "box-ticking" though and if you cannot see that you are either being blind to it or disingenuous. Besides I'm not even sure what your point is exactly. I agree the 'majority of people' won't know Ramanujan, Lovelace etc but the majority of people are not studying mathematics at Durham either. I am not studying mathematics though and even I know who they are, I said those 2 off the top of my head and, as I said, Ramanujan had a big, Hollywood movie made about him! So they're hardly under-appreciated. And this is not about looking at the curriculum "with fresh eyes" as you put it because if it were the ethnicity would be irrelevant. These are not students studying for GCSE learning about Pythagoras, these are university students studying high level mathematics and, I'm sorry, there is NO WAY that is at the exclusion of the works of people like those you mention (I notice you didn't mention a single Chinese mathematician by the way - if we go down this route we'll always miss someone out!). If it was just about teaching better mathematics nobody would have a problem, but it is being instigated under false pretences - the notion that maths has ANYTHING to do with race or gender. You talk about "most people" not knowing Lovelace but most people do not give a monkey's who Fibonacci was either, and all that matters in mathematics is his sequence, not his gender nor skin colour. Besides, we are in Britain so why would any Brits identify with Fibonacci or Pythagoras? Because they're White? That is insane. You list a bunch of White, Male mathematicians whom you surmise "the majority would know" (even though that is not the argument here) but how many "British" mathematicians do "the majority of people" know? Lovelace, maybe, and Alan Turing obviously (who was homosexual and was genuinely persecuted for being so, but is still widely celebrated in mathematics). Instead of people crying about a lack of representation from whatever tribe they identify as, whatever happened to wanting to succeed on your own merit? When Ramanujan arrived at Cambridge in 1916 he never said "but where are all the Indian mathematicians?" - he fought so that HE would be recognised for his mathematics amongst his peers. I am Welsh, do I get to moan that there are not enough Welsh mathematicians being represented? I can't name a single one and yet I managed to name an Indian and a Female off the top of my head ... but then don't mistake me for someone who actually cares about representation in the 1st place.
@@matthewwalker5430 I'm completely ignorant and poorly educated about Chinese mathematicians. I'd be very happy to learn.
This is a much bigger issue than just Durham Uni.
I struggle to see what is so bad about having a look at what is in the curriculum and whether it is biased for the wrong reasons or if the curriculum is spot on for teaching the most useful maths and the story of mathematical development. If it is already, that's great...if not, change it.
I'm sympathetic to the irritation at woke posturing, but I'm also open to the idea that our curriculums in general (not just maths) might benefit enormously from looking across the world and history for interesting and varied subject matter.
Would you find it objectionable if I said I think a very interesting subject for history is the study of the Barbary slave trade, the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa and Zanzibar/ Tippu Tip? Why didnt I know about Shen Kuo? (Gotta love Google and thanks to Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr who both made innovations that underpin our modern communications).
Looking elsewhere in the world to teach incredible history of discovery and innovation is surely interesting and not a bad thing?
I like her, what she says is spot on. Wish her the best on luck.
In our world today, we cannot fix anything by trying to rectify the past. WE are all the solution and have to move forward, together, with love and care for each other.
So grateful I went to uni 40 years ago and not now. They're nuts🤪🤪
The local firm I work at is refusing any graduate from 2018. They are that bad now that even the HR team that is fairly leftish in outlook will not employ them. Crazy days, just crazy.
what a good straight talking young lady, respect to here, youngsters like this give me hope.
We're getting to the stage in our society, where it's no longer going to be enough to just flush out these people from all positions of power, and reverse the damage they've done, but people will want to see those responsible punished.
Good on you sophie wish every youngster were like you,👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
You go to college & University to learn the particular subjects if I was paying thousands to learn mathematics and get a lesson on how to not be racist lesson I would demand my money back and leave.
This is ENGLAND, a white Christian country, nothing more to be said!
@Cede Nullis In which case, you might find if you are looking to teach fundamental maths that originated in England you would have to strike maths from the curriculum altogether considering that the most fundamental concepts built on by British, and specifically English mathematicians is originates from India to Persia and Greece. Can you cite me an English mathematician contemporary with Eratosthenes of Cyrene circa 276 BC? He calculated the circumference of the earth and the earth's axial tilt when England didnt even have a system of writing. The earliest record we have is rune stones using Scandinavian text from 200AD...so it seems to me you might be a really good example of why it might be necessary to include more information about the origination of vital discoveries on which English scholars built centuries later.
Jesus wasn't white - you seem to be mentioning 'white' and 'Christian' together as if they are synonyms
Just shows how thick many of the students are, 🤡
It's easy to attack the woke students. It comes down to the education system. It's indoctrinated by full of Marxists professors.
His butt clenched when she said "Anti-White". Good for her.
There has been a few hundred years now for b mathematicians to prove themselves. Nobody is stopping them. Let's hear their theorems!
Just remember all these it's which do not know what they are will not have jobs.
So normal people with jobs will control life as we know it.lets hope they will own nothing but be happy.
And by the way because I not happy about all these immigrants in my country do that make me a racist if so I am fine with that.have a nice day.
Agree
Great to hear some ACTUAL, REASON AND REALITY BASED COMMON SENSE for a change!!!
Sophie has the patience of a saint and a spine to match to be around such lily livered snowflakes. It would drive most of us to some sort of low level violence or open unfettered sarcasm.
I remember when universities made you smarter....those were the days.
Nuts everywhere
THE BIGGEST RACISTS ARE THOSE SHOUTING RACISM THE LOUDEST.
Repatriate the commonwealth
I'm sorry, but it's way too late for that.
I studied maths precisely because there was no agenda to crowbar wokeness into it. It's come to something when numbers and their application and function in the world can be viewed as symptomatic of a colonial history. Then again, history is also on the hitlist. Madness.
How can there be equality and mutual respect if one of the races has to submit and degrade themselves economically, culturally and historically to prove to the other race how "good" and "willing" they are.
Stop the madness! STOP ! The MADNESS!!!