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Russia Demands Wikipedia Take Down Information About Ukraine War (www.forbes.com)
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[–] 0 points 4 years ago (9 children)

Wikipedia is not volunteer run... They're using language to make it seem like it's a little website with a dream being bullied by the mean Russians. Wikipedia is run by its administrators, who do not let anyone else encroach on their power. 3 editors are responsible for most edits (I want to say 90%). Famously there is one editor that edits from 6 am to 10pm every day without fail (mostly pro war edits) , and the most prolific editor worked as a TSA and ICE agent terrorizing migrants.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago (8 children)

    There are thousands of Wikipedia administrators, and they're voted in by the community. The people who actually run Wikipedia are Bureaucrats.

    The 3 editors your referring to are bot accounts that do things like archive pages and format things consistently.

    Please learn more before spouting blatant lies, thanks :)

    • A Wikipedia editor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators

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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago* (7 children)

    lmao okay defend the Ayn Rand libertarian website if you want, what do you want me to tell you?

    https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia

    Are you white and male by chance?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago (6 children)

    You can't just drop links and racism and pretend that's an argument. Your post talked about administrators, I explained why that's wrong. That goal post stays where it is.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago (5 children)

    Errr parent comment was troubling, but your claiming that calling out whiteness is "racism" is even more troubling. I don't know a single place on earth where anti-white racism is a thing, despite fascists claiming that. To be clear, some anti-white resentment does exist in white-supremacist regions, but resentment is not racism or rather is a small subset of racism and not the actual problem that we more precisely call "structural racism". (see also the wikipedia pages on those topics :))

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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago* (4 children)

    resentment is not racism

    I left Ruqqus for the stupid racism there, didn't expect to find it on Lemmy

    That aside, I agree with most of what you said. My post was just to call out CriticalResist for running behind text walls after posting patently false info

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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

    Yea i agree the original comment was inappropriate, but please be careful when using such a loaded word as "racism" just because someone spelled "white" or "black" :P

    I also strongly recommend you read the wikipedia page on reverse racism, aka anti-white racism. Have a good day!

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  • [+] -2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 4 years ago (1 child)

    WTF? Are you suggesting anti-white racism is a thing? Funny idea for someone who likes to think of themself as anti-imperialist... If you're instead suggesting that i said anti-white racism is a thing please read the comments again i was saying the exact opposite.

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