An old idea. Look up the first sentence in Michael Crichton’s novel Congo.
Maps are racis, even when they don't plot any data. https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/11/its-time-to-tackle-the-racism-that-lurks-in-our-classrooms-starting-with-the-map-of-the-world-8102005/ …pic.twitter.com/JpPxXjD20D
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Crichton did a ton of research before writing his novels - he included a long annotated bibliography for his didactic global warming alarmism novel, State of Fear.
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Not knowing you, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Of course a tool can be racist if it favors Europeans in the Northern Hemisphere, and millions, if not billions of people think that's the way the world is. No?
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Two words: Mercator Projection
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It’ll be much better to present it as the scientific inaccuracies of the past rather than as something racist and westernized. The Chinese Imperial court rejected at first any map which doesn’t show China in the center. BTW, This is coming from an Asian guy.
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