Everything they teach you in school is propaganda.

@umalkosh ok but in all seriousness:
math may not be propaganda but the concept that math is an inherently inert field is, and the lack of teaching of the sociopolitical implications of mathematics is pretty daunting

I really recommend taking a look at https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf, "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work", where the author basically talks about how cryptographers believe that cryptography, being math, has no political motive (when it really absolutely does)