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People have a problem with this post and these kind of posts because they imply it was deliberately done for evil reasons. The point of any article isn't just

People have a problem with this post and these kind of posts because they imply it was deliberately done for evil reasons. The point of any article isn't just its factual content; it's the hidden message from the way it's said. I don't know if you intended to say it the way you did when you started off with the comment about poverty in the first two sentences, but by doing so, you set the tone for the rest of your article. (You also didn't expand on that tidbit so it kind of leaves your audience wondering why you mentioned it.) I like the rest of the article though.

pseudalopex 3y ago
Probably eddythompson80 is not Tomas Pueyo. The comment about poverty was compatible with believing it was deliberate and evil, careless, or excusable but unfortunate.
nilmask 3y ago
> People have a problem Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous? I'm getting tired of the progressive tendency to read offence, bigotry, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. into every little word & minutiae of nuance uttered by others. It's on the verge of induced pareidolia for outrage & victimhood. Do you reside or hail from one of the aforementioned countries, or are you merely "signal boosting" and getting outraged on their behalf?
- TheBigSalad 3y ago
  Did you read the post? I didn't think it was too subtle. Especially because it was so out of place.
  - nilmask 3y ago
    Maybe we are using different maps of this literary territory.
  - watwut 3y ago
    [flagged]
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous? No, you're just being stupid. This isn't a new issue. There's an episode of The West Wing about the evils of the Mercator projection. It aired 22 years ago. When you write an essay doing nothing more than repeating a several-decades-old cliche, people are going to assume you don't have anything to say other than the content of the cliche they heard decades ago. And they will be right.
nerdbert 3y ago
It's unlikely that it was deliberately done for evil reasons. However it contributes to a misunderstanding that may in some way favor richer countries, and that could be a reason why nobody's trying very hard to focus kids' exposure on more accurate maps. The mechanism I'm alluding to is a sense that "this place is very big, and so it's reasonable that it controls more than other places." It's not a highly-developed intellectual analysis, but more of a gut-level conception that informs casual interpretation of news and events.

pseudalopex 3y ago

Probably eddythompson80 is not Tomas Pueyo. The comment about poverty was compatible with believing it was deliberate and evil, careless, or excusable but unfortunate.

nilmask 3y ago

> People have a problem Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous? I'm getting tired of the progressive tendency to read offence, bigotry, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. into every little word & minutiae of nuance uttered by others. It's on the verge of induced pareidolia for outrage & victimhood. Do you reside or hail from one of the aforementioned countries, or are you merely "signal boosting" and getting outraged on their behalf?

TheBigSalad 3y ago
Did you read the post? I didn't think it was too subtle. Especially because it was so out of place.
- nilmask 3y ago
  Maybe we are using different maps of this literary territory.
- watwut 3y ago
  [flagged]
thaumasiotes 3y ago
> Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous? No, you're just being stupid. This isn't a new issue. There's an episode of The West Wing about the evils of the Mercator projection. It aired 22 years ago. When you write an essay doing nothing more than repeating a several-decades-old cliche, people are going to assume you don't have anything to say other than the content of the cliche they heard decades ago. And they will be right.

nerdbert 3y ago

It's unlikely that it was deliberately done for evil reasons. However it contributes to a misunderstanding that may in some way favor richer countries, and that could be a reason why nobody's trying very hard to focus kids' exposure on more accurate maps. The mechanism I'm alluding to is a sense that "this place is very big, and so it's reasonable that it controls more than other places." It's not a highly-developed intellectual analysis, but more of a gut-level conception that informs casual interpretation of news and events.