If we are talking about math and not “math history”, which mean i don’t care who was Euclid's how long ago he lived and what his race was.
But i am just teaching the formula and how to use it.
How is this white math or white privilege?
And how would you teach how to compute the length of the hypotenuse without being racist ?
The formula for the length of a hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is attributed to Pythagoras, not that the identity of the discoverer changes the truth of the mathematical identity one iota.
Itoa derives from the ancient Phoenician unit of measurement, which was “nobody cares, shut up already”.
It's readable with a free JSTOR account, which might be worth it if you really care to understand the scholarly arguments, such as they are. At the very least, nobody will be able to say that you don't understand this particular argument.
I do not believe HN moderation would permit me to explain further.
I think you misunderstand their motives here. I don't think even the wokest of the woke believes in their heart that math is racist. It's about power for its own sake.
By labeling this or that arbitrary thing as racist or colonialist or trans-phobic, these people force every conversation back to their topics, on their terms, and their turf. By doing this, they are A) Establishing themselves as the default moral authority, and B) Successfully pushing the idea that reality is nothing more than what they say it is.
Generally speaking if you're making a good faith argument and doing so civilly, this place is pretty tolerant of all sorts of views even if not everyone shares them.