While civilized math has led to the high standard of living us in the most ‘advanced’ of countries, the countries which consider themselves first & foremost in world affairs, we should be mindful of the many ways civilized mathematics was used for horrible ways, especially along racial and ethnic lines, and against the working class as a whole.

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Trail of Tears in the U.S.
The Mid-Atlantic Slave Trade
Slave auctions in the U.S.
Ledgers of transactions of enslaved people.
The Holocaust.
Jim Crow in the U.S.
Redlining in the U.S.
Mass incarceration in the U.S.

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