@barray on Wed Dec 08 02:43:44 UTC 2021 said: &e#aardvark has come down on the right side with regards to the insane #nz #backlash over #academics simply stating the #fact that #maori #folklore should not be #taught in #schools to have equal weighting to #science https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/1213.s.. #scientific #knowledge #transfers across #time and #culture because it is *self proving* - even if it was entirely lost tomorrow, people of the #future would re- #discover exactly what we know today. #science is not #european , it belongs to all.Apparently the #nz #government believe that the #maori #system for #collecting #information ( #matauranga ) is as #valid as #science - if not more valid: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7YXJD0Ytb0I #university #academics are apparently fighting against this... Good on them. Throwing #evolution out the window is *not* going to bring #nz forwards...
Looks like I caused a #hackernews #commentator to #ragequit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280.. in response to disagreeing with their opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280.. Essentially this person is annoyed that I used #fact and #logic to reason about the topic and claim I do so without #empathy - despite arguing from a perspective of empathy. This is why I tend to stay away from HN anyway, it has become too much of an #echochamber for anything even remotely #political