On the Apr. 17, 2024 episode of The Matt Walsh Show,[…]Matt Walsh claimed that Aboriginal Australians “happen to have, on average, the second lowest IQ of any demographic group on the planet”[…]Walsh cited an anonymous X account[…]

What do these activists mean when they say they wanna decolonize math, given that the entire idea of decolonizing math is completely incoherent? The Arabs were colonizers too. And why are Australians of all people so interested in promoting this idea? Well one possibility is that, by some estimates as the Twitter account i/o points out, Aboriginal Australians happen to have, on average, the second lowest IQ out of any demographic group on the planet

Now that’s the sort of thing that’s supposed to be unciteable, but it’s impossible to talk about certain groups struggling academically without bringing up the intellectual elephant in the room. I mean there might be a reason why there aren’t many Aboriginals working at NASA[…]It’s an important point because it means that decolonization, practically speaking, entails dumbing down these subjects or destroying them altogether

And mainly we see, with this decolonization agenda, the embarrassment that liberal Westerners feel about the fact that their ancestors were far more advanced[…]The liberal Westerner’s constantly looking for ways to even out the score. And we’re seeing that more and more in this country as well[…]
But as we just established, some cultures and civilizations did indeed advance science and mathematics more than others. I mean there were some cultures and civilizations that didn’t advance it at all because they didn’t even have the concepts. And there were others that did quite a bit to advance it. And some of those were colonizers[…]
I mean maybe you could argue that this belongs in some elective history course somewhere, but it has no place affecting courses on the fundamentals of mathematics, which is exactly what’s happening in this country