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This completely misses the first point the parent comment made. Even if we agree that the map wasn’t _made_ with racist or discriminatory intent, and hand soun

This completely misses the first point the parent comment made. Even if we agree that the map wasn’t _made_ with racist or discriminatory intent, and hand sound reasoning for existing as it did (preserving angles as another comment mentioned), it doesn’t mean that it’s continued use isn’t discriminatory. The parent comment is explaining that it perhaps became ubiquitous because white/colonial powers happened to be over-represented in scale. And once it is ubiquitous, it can be tough to walk backwards to something like the tetrahedral projection in the OP because anyone who does so in, say, America, would be diminishing America’s physical presence on projection maps.

drekipus 4y ago
>that it perhaps became ubiquitous because white/colonial powers happened to be over-represented in scale. Yes. Society at large got together and said "these maps make us look good, let's spread them around, we will have until 2022 until someone will unravel our master scheme". > And once it is ubiquitous, it can be tough to walk backwards to something like the tetrahedral projection in the OP because anyone who does so in, say, America, would be diminishing America’s physical presence on projection maps. Perhaps it's tough to walk back ubiquitous things for superficial reasons. USA isn't "big" on a map and there's no one standing in the way of this great injustice unless you're thinking Canada Russia and Greenland control the world.