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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Mamdani for comment via email outside of regular working hours.

...really?? Most of the world has been using 'Arabic numerals' for centuries. That's it, nothing more is needed. Giving any actual effort to 'rebutting' this beyond that is to tacitly carry water for this islamophobic horseshit by increasing the profile of it, but then again Western press loves to be overtly xenophobic as well so I can't say I'm surprised.

Americans continue to be the most idiotic and fearful population that exists outside of fiction.