I see you lean towards the second group, defending this obvious lie and those that have molded your mind to do so. Note that this is not merely a trivial matter of definition being haphazardly fluid, but a blatantly false mistatement of what continents are, and inflicted on children while they're forming the very circuits that enable them to define and conceive of their world, creating permanent pathways that determine how they handle this data.
It's not dismissable, nor a trivial matter. This psyop provably is centuries old. It's not possible that something so expensive to do to everyone on Earth for generation after generation is unimportant. It's not just a few geographers, but every institution on Earth, every authority you consult, and everyone you know. It's no accident you dismiss, defend your manipulators, and scorn me for pointing it out. It's undeniably real, demonstrably of enormous impact on our thinking about society and our world, and deliberately undertaken at great and continuous expense.
Enjoy the hit of dopamine that has been shown to reward folks denying facts to support their chosen in group. It costs you everything you really care about.
Thanks!
Edit: 'stopped reading there'. Is that supposed to reflect on the facts of the matter? The only way you refusing to read that last minute of text affects the issue is that you are rejecting information on it. How does that affect the facts? Guess what it does do, since it doesn't do that? It prevents you from considering the matter at all.
That's the only reason for doing it. That's a tell my friend.
Rejecting facts that reveal status quo to be based on lies is not novel, nor are you the only person to do this. Defending oppression by those victimized by it has been long recognized as a common response to oppression by those that feel unable to defend themselves.
It's called Stockholm Syndrome.
So, why are you resorting to pedantry rather than actually considering how and why this is done? Does it matter to you how many continents there are, or is the balkanization of humanity into Europoids and Others by psychologically manipulating children a more relevant issue?
If it's just a definition issue of no import, why isn't India called a continent, rather than, or in addition to Europe? Your protests aren't substantive, but instead reveal you are dodging and dancing around the actual important fact: the West has been psychologically manipulated for generations in order to create an us vs. them ideation, render Westerners susceptible to overlords and propaganda, and distort society to cement and further the power of overlords by causing plebs to instinctively follow their authority puppets and accept being chattel.
That reduces human freedom, worsens GINI, and has other effects that degrade humanity and compromises all our security and the fecundity of life overall. Europe isn't a continent, no matter the precise definition of a continent. It's the western end of Asia, just like India is the southern tip of Asia.
Your protests reveal not that you reasonably consider the matter, but that you are just as affected as the rest of us, and have been engineered through psychological manipulation to support the legacy system intended to reduce you to captivity for the benefit of your masters.
Question authority. Break your chains. Your obeisance is degradation. Fight against the miasma of disinformation that has been imposed on you to obscure factual reality. Look at a globe for a few minutes while you consider why and how Europe has been falsely separated from Asia through psychological manipulation.
Or, settle more comfortably into your cozy corral, the place prepared by your parasites to extract your production to fatten their wallets.