A blog entry about Boston and the Peters Projection led me to wonder...

[4est_4est_Gump]

What happened to the map that slices up the globe like an orange peel and lays it out flat and what is wrong with that?

That led me to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

That's just fascinating stuff.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I find it mind-boggling that there is any resistance to using the Peters Projection in classrooms.

 

[FakeNews]

Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion

When Boston public schools introduced a new standard map of the world this week, some young students’ felt their jaws drop. In an instant, their view of the world had changed.

The USA was small. Europe too had suddenly shrunk. Africa and South America appeared narrower but also much larger than usual. And what had happened to Alaska?

In an age of “fake news” and “alternative facts”, city authorities are confident their new map offers something closer to the geographical truth than that of traditional school maps, and hope it can serve an example to schools across the nation and even the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/educati...-schools-world-map-mercator-peters-projection

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I believe the resistance is now a symptom. The stated purpose was to combat white superiority and put Africa in its proper perspective. A lot of maps do that.

But what I am thinking is that the SJW movement has grown so pervasive, in your face and aggressive in its search for oppression, that no matter how insignificant the 'change,' people just object to it because they have had enough, culture is changing too quickly and people are aggressively demanding, "Please give us a chance to acclimate to all of the new changes before you force even more upon us."

That is partially how I feel, so some of that may be projection, but you can only brow-beat people for so long before they stand up.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I believe the resistance is now a symptom. The stated purpose was to combat white superiority and put Africa in its proper perspective. A lot of maps do that.

But what I am thinking is that the SJW movement has grown so pervasive, in your face and aggressive in its search for oppression, that no matter how insignificant the 'change,' people just object to it because they have had enough, culture is changing too quickly and people are aggressively demanding, "Please give us a chance to acclimate to all of the new changes before you force even more upon us."

That is partially how I feel, so some of that may be projection, but you can only brow-beat people for so long before they stand up.

I get that. Although the Peters Projection is not new, it is a new concept to many.

I had an incident this week involving an extreme demand for special consideration that about made me scream. I am on board with much of the progressive movement, but like all things there are people taking it way too far. This particular case was not about anything other than personal gain.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I get that. Although the Peters Projection is not new, it is a new concept to many.

I had an incident this week involving an extreme demand for special consideration that about made me scream. I am on board with much of the progressive movement, but like all things there are people taking it way too far. This particular case was not about anything other than personal gain.

There's something about a movement that makes it impossible to stop, even if its mission goes beyond the bounds of reasonableness. There is economic gain to be made in a cause, not to mention political power. Some might say that under the current system, that both are the same thing. After all, Socialist Bernie Sanders now has three houses and I'll bet there are no beds of illegal immigrants, refugees, or the abject poor of his district.