Jetpack Gothic

nitahaveabomb:

this is the difference between the Mercator (left) and Equal Area (right) projections. do you see the GIGANTIC difference in how Africa and South America are portrayed?? The Equal Area projection is a much more accurate depiction of size ratios (in terms of Africa to Europe, for example), and yet it’s banned in public schools in the US, and the Mercator map is the official map of the US government. 

seriously anyone who denies the fact that the US government is openly and purposely racist is an ignorant racist fuck 

’.. wait, favouring one cartographic projection over another makes an entire nation racist? Utter drivel. To ban one method - if that is what happened - is ignorant, yes, but ignoring a process by which a 3D object is mapped onto two dimensions (something which will be fraught with inaccuracies from the start) does not even remotely compare to exclusive and often violent prejudice against a group of people.

I see this sort of thing happening all too often. Please, let us learn when not to undermine prejudice by calling it out willy-nilly.

…Oh wait, apparently this makes me racist, now.’