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Another example of Wikipedia being a progressive propaganda site

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by AltLightPride, Oct 20, 2018.

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  1. Daniel Light

    Daniel Light Well-Known Member

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    Simple remedy for all this, “liberals own the media world” crap. Conservatives get off their lazy asses and create their own media sources. Quit playing the poor little victim and stop trying to get government to control private businesses.
     
    Daniel Light, Oct 21, 2018
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    I wish they'd make up their minds, in one breathe speak of how liberals are all on welfare and the next they are in control of a market by working..
     
    Moonglow, Oct 21, 2018
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    They did it is called conservepedia and it is an absolute hoot
     
    Bowerbird, Oct 21, 2018
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  4. DarkSkies

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    Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a credible source anyway. Professors won't even allow you to use the site amongst your references.

    Research databases like EBSCOhost, proquest or other places that specialize in the type of information you are looking for are better and aren't prone to propagandist changing entries to suit their agendas.
     
    DarkSkies, Oct 21, 2018
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  5. AltLightPride

    AltLightPride Well-Known Member

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    That was definitely true in the past, but I've read reports of Zionist shills being permabanned from Wiki so I don't know if it's still a current issue. Your article is from 2010.

    Can you link us a present day Zionist propaganda article on Wiki, and expose the lies? That would be interesting.
     
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  6. Moonglow

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    If the entries didn't have footnotes I would agree.
     
    Moonglow, Oct 21, 2018
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    Fake News of our choice? = Bad idea.

    Honest Reporting? = Good idea.
     
    Thought Criminal, Oct 21, 2018
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  8. DarkSkies

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    You should be able to follow the footnote to a credible source. Wikipedia itself shouldn't be the source imho.
     
    DarkSkies, Oct 21, 2018
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  9. Moonglow

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    Right, do you know how long it takes to research a footnote, not very long now that there are computers.
     
    Moonglow, Oct 21, 2018
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    I use the footnotes as leads to better sources. If I read some writing with Wikipedia as its source and that writing is in contest with what I know or believe, I can usually find that the entry was recently edited or is constantly changing. This undermines the credibility of the user's position and is why professors don't like to see it referenced. I don't either for matter.
     
    DarkSkies, Oct 21, 2018
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  11. Moonglow

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    Well, my last college class was in 1997 we still had to use footnotes from real books. Which is no problem since I started college in 1979 without any internet or computers...
     
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  12. DarkSkies

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    Oh ok! Haha.
     
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  13. Moonglow

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    I love going to college, I think it's cause there are females there..
     
    Moonglow, Oct 21, 2018
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    You guys are so predictable going for those "gotcha" moments. Here you go.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

    "Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978 ) is an American white supremacist. [2]"

    [2] : fake news journals like the NYT.



    10:30 "I'm not a white supremacist. White supremacy means wanting to rule over other people and I don't want that. We've had white supremacy in our past and that's been a disaster".
     
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  15. Moonglow

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    Which part is not true?
    I guess you think they are saluting Caesar and not Hitler..
     
    Moonglow, Oct 21, 2018
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  16. Moonglow

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    America has never been an all white nation..
     
    Moonglow, Oct 21, 2018
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  17. AltLightPride

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    Spencer never did the Nazi salute, two guys in his rally did that, and we still don't know whether they were trolls, shills, or actual Nazis. Surely you can't judge someone's beliefs based on what other people do can you.

    So this is a clear example of Wikipedia stating the baseless opinions of MSM journalists as fact, while not even giving the person the chance to state their own beliefs to balance it out.

    You asked for evidence of Wikipedia labeling people because the MSM said so and I provided it. That's really all there is to this, this thread is not for debating Spencer's beliefs, which I'm very critical of by the way.
     
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  18. Sanskrit

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    Yeah, we know, every topic is "Orange Man" and "ORANGE MAN BAD!"

    Put some more one-dimensionality on display. Helps legitimized and spread the NPC meme.


     
    Sanskrit, Oct 21, 2018
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    Did someone say 'orange man'? Unless you were sleeping after the election, The Emperor's New Clothes was commonly referenced by the left. The irony of the right using it is giggle worthy...
     
    Pants, Oct 21, 2018
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  20. Sanskrit

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    Where? on MSNPC? NPC News? NPCNN?
     
    Sanskrit, Oct 21, 2018
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  21. ARDY

    ARDY Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I was under the impression that most media is owned by large corporations
     
    ARDY, Oct 21, 2018
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  22. Sanskrit

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    Corporations that realize full well high taxes and redistribution benefit their advertisers' revenues immensely. So you were saying?
     
    Sanskrit, Oct 21, 2018
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    How can anything be an embarrassment to conservatism?
     
    ImNotOliver, Oct 21, 2018
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    The first encyclopedia was created by Denis Diderot, partly as an exercise in the emerging liberal thought, that placed empiricism over beleif and authority.
     
    ImNotOliver, Oct 21, 2018
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    I've noticed this tactic of conservatives. Just about everything they say tends to be less than truthful, and geared towards denegrating the left. Yet if they get called on it, we see how thin their skin is.
     
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