The only thing I ignored was the piling up of words on top of other words. If you retrace the steps you will see that the discussion was about whether any specific item of knowledge can be divorced from the context it was first discovered in. My contention is that not all knowledge automatically assumes ideological character. One could even argue that all ideological knowledge is possibly not knowledge at all but rather a creed, though the discussion never even went that far, nor am I going to push it there (others might). If anyone it's the person in question who can be more credibly accused of side-stepping the discussion as they went at length about colonialist book-keeping, ancient Greek grasp of mathematics, property relations etc, but no matter how far down the philosophical or philosophy of science rabbit hole you've sunk the fact remains that when you add two items together you get the sum of those two items. Trivial but true and true in any context. To imply the opposite is to engage in magical thinking (you see actually 1 + 1 is not 2 but...). The same goes for the earth orbiting the sun. It was worked out in its modern elliptical form by a deeply religious man trying to better understand god's plan and safeguard the sanctity of the divine. That was the context of Kepler's discoveries. Yet it has zero bearing on a communist society using the calculations standing on the shoulders of that knowledge to launch rockets into space and have them land where they want to. The same goes for pretty much all knowledge.