I have complained about this in the recent past already, but it just frustrates me so much that I have to vent a bit more and write about it again.
There are countless anti-SJW anti-PC anti-regressive-left critics and influencers out there, especially on YouTube who often make several videos a week, sometimes even several videos a day. Some of these people have hundreds of thousands, and even millions of subscribers on YouTube, Twitter and other platforms. Some of them are journalists, politicians and public figures with a lot of reach. Even the more unknown people among them may still have a very large following.
Most of them are not very stringent and picky on what kind of stories they deal with. Especially some of them will often make videos about even the most minor of incidents, or articles, or opinion pieces written in some obscure journal that only a handful of people (often just a small inner circle of SJWs) actually read. They will often comment even on some casual opinion by some SJW, or some small Freudian slip or side comment made by some known regressive leftist. Some of them will do a lot of research and work towards every video they make, collecting sources and corroborating facts, others will often just make much lighter "vlogs" about some random article, opinion piece or event.
Not a single one ever, ever, ever talks about Wikipedia. Not one of them. Seriously.
I have been actively watching many of these people on YouTube for something like 4 or 5 years now (perhaps a bit too much for the sake of my own sanity, but that's not here nor there), and the last time I remember any of them saying anything at all about Wikipedia was literally years ago. And even that was just a very quick side comment, not the main topic of the video.
Nobody is talking about the heavy political bias in Wikipedia, and I just cannot comprehend why. Why is nobody talking about it?
They will make entire videos about some random opinion piece in some random local journal that only a handful of people even reads, but nobody will make a single video about the biggest and most influential online encyclopedia in the world, and its heavy political bias.
Why? I just cannot comprehend.
Certain Wikipedia articles are nothing more than political propaganda and smearing campaigns, consisting of nothing more than endless lists of irrelevant minutia that can be used to attack some person, group or movement. The political bias is blatant and obvious. And the problem is that Wikipedia has way too much influence on society than it should. It certainly has a lot more influence than some random local publication in some random college out there.
Yet nobody is talking about it. Not a peep. Nobody is interested. Why?
The most dangerous form of propaganda and political activism is one that's not exposed. One that's ignored and left to its own devices without being challenged and criticized. One that's allowed to spread its propaganda without question, without challenge. And all anti-SJW critics out there are doing exactly that. All of them. For some reason they just don't care and aren't interested.
There are countless anti-SJW anti-PC anti-regressive-left critics and influencers out there, especially on YouTube who often make several videos a week, sometimes even several videos a day. Some of these people have hundreds of thousands, and even millions of subscribers on YouTube, Twitter and other platforms. Some of them are journalists, politicians and public figures with a lot of reach. Even the more unknown people among them may still have a very large following.
Most of them are not very stringent and picky on what kind of stories they deal with. Especially some of them will often make videos about even the most minor of incidents, or articles, or opinion pieces written in some obscure journal that only a handful of people (often just a small inner circle of SJWs) actually read. They will often comment even on some casual opinion by some SJW, or some small Freudian slip or side comment made by some known regressive leftist. Some of them will do a lot of research and work towards every video they make, collecting sources and corroborating facts, others will often just make much lighter "vlogs" about some random article, opinion piece or event.
Not a single one ever, ever, ever talks about Wikipedia. Not one of them. Seriously.
I have been actively watching many of these people on YouTube for something like 4 or 5 years now (perhaps a bit too much for the sake of my own sanity, but that's not here nor there), and the last time I remember any of them saying anything at all about Wikipedia was literally years ago. And even that was just a very quick side comment, not the main topic of the video.
Nobody is talking about the heavy political bias in Wikipedia, and I just cannot comprehend why. Why is nobody talking about it?
They will make entire videos about some random opinion piece in some random local journal that only a handful of people even reads, but nobody will make a single video about the biggest and most influential online encyclopedia in the world, and its heavy political bias.
Why? I just cannot comprehend.
Certain Wikipedia articles are nothing more than political propaganda and smearing campaigns, consisting of nothing more than endless lists of irrelevant minutia that can be used to attack some person, group or movement. The political bias is blatant and obvious. And the problem is that Wikipedia has way too much influence on society than it should. It certainly has a lot more influence than some random local publication in some random college out there.
Yet nobody is talking about it. Not a peep. Nobody is interested. Why?
The most dangerous form of propaganda and political activism is one that's not exposed. One that's ignored and left to its own devices without being challenged and criticized. One that's allowed to spread its propaganda without question, without challenge. And all anti-SJW critics out there are doing exactly that. All of them. For some reason they just don't care and aren't interested.
I think the issue is that most people accept it as a given, but since Wikipedia is not a scholarly source, also consider it and its biases irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteWhich is a huge mistake. Wikipedia is read by literally millions and millions of people, including scholars. Those "scholarly sources", such as articles written in some university's journal, are read by like a few hundred people at most. Wikipedia has like a thousand-fold more outreach, and therefore that much more influence. The masses read Wikipedia, they don't read some obscure scholarly journals.
Delete