> "The result goes a long way to rewriting the historical and socio-political message of the Mercator map, which exaggerates the size of imperialist powers." >

> "The result goes a long way to rewriting the historical and socio-political message of the Mercator map, which exaggerates the size of imperialist powers." > “This is the start of a three-year effort to decolonize the curriculum in our public schools..." Decolonize is guilt-inducing newspeak for injecting propaganda into school curricula. Also, my peers and I learned about Mercator's pros/cons and other projections in elementary school. > "The Mercator projection had “fostered European imperialist attitudes for centuries”, creating an “ethical bias” for “western civilization” against the developing world." Baseless statement. Everything is viewed through the lens of oppression and race war. The real reason of the ubiquitousness of Mercator is barely mentioned in the article. From the comments "Mercator was made for mariners who navigated by dead reckoning. Holding a compass steady course on a sphere will produce a curved path. On Mercator it is a straight line." Gerardus Mercator was aware of his map's shortcomings and merely followed the engineering rule Form follows function.