what in the HELL?!

did y’all sons of bitches let HEGEL draw this fucky piece of shit map????

“UNDER CONSTRUCTION?!?!” bitch, the first humans emerged in Africa; there is no greater genetic diversity of people than in Africa— “Under construction?!?!” you were just TOO LAZY!

Tunis...
...Algiers...
...Cairo...

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oh yeah, may as well throw in Lagos...

y’all could fit Buffalo on your map but not Timbuktu, crossroads of West Africa for centuries?

what was your city selection method, i have to ask??

newark, known best for its fart smell and inconvenient airport, got its own subway stop, but fuck the entirety of east africa, amirite?

dar es salaam, pfft, who ever heard of it, it’s no NEWARK, that’s for sure

cleveland... is fine.

no one really has anything bad to say about it.

it’s okay.

but i just need to point out that Addis Ababa, Dakar, Kinshasa, Kampala, Luanda, Cape Town, Nairobi— none of them made it onto this fucking map

cw: so much racism

This story of Africa as being “under construction” is extremely old and was used to justify the transatlantic slave trade.

George W. F. Hegel, for example, made the commonplace claim that Africa was a backwards place outside of history.

Being outside of history, for Hegel, is to exist in a state of nature. And nature, as everyone knows, was given to mankind by Jesus to be used.

if y’all jerk-offs in my menchies trying to explain why this map is fine one way or another can’t see why there is no explanation that makes it fine,

there is no explanation that renders this bullshit okay.

the cartography defenders have arrived



i’m just blocking you all from now on

literally have to mute this thread b/c i can tell the fucking trolls find it too tempting