The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64271737

The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way - Divisions by zero

As opposed to the northern/southern hemisphere that has: * a clear reference point (equators) * traditionally we don’t model a rotation north/south Western/eastern hemisphere * doesn’t have a clear reference (Greenwich?) * traditionally we model rotation on the north/south axis so western/eastern would depend from the time

The only explanation I have is dog whistle for some sort of “western supremacy“ 🙄
There’s truth to what you’re saying but it also doesn’t matter. If it was somehow designated as “North Atlantic” or with any arbitrary label, you would still have a subgroip of those people thinking their superior and giving us phrenology, eugenics, Nazism etc.