{"id":10291,"date":"2007-02-22T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T03:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/22\/when-you-absolutely-positively-need-to-get-the-right-wing-truth.html"},"modified":"2007-02-22T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T03:48:14","slug":"when_you_absolutely_posit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/22\/when_you_absolutely_posit.html","title":{"rendered":"When you absolutely, positively need to get the right-wing truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presenting … Conservapedia<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia<\/a>, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian “C.E.” instead of “A.D.”, which Conservapedia uses. Christianity receives no credit for the great advances and discoveries it inspired, such as those of the Renaissance. Read a list of many Examples
\nof Bias in Wikipedia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America. Conservapedia has easy-to-use indexes to facilitate review of topics. You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise answers free of “political correctness”. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh. My.<\/p>\n

Among those examples of “bias” are:<\/p>\n

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  1. \nThe use of BCE\/CE instead of BC\/AD. Now, I prefer the latter, too, for traditional purposes. But this isn’t “anti-Christianity,” it’s an attempt to be non-religious (which, believe or not, is not the same thing). Further, the charge is not that Wikipedia forces<\/em> the BCE\/CE standard (the way Conservapedia forces BC\/AD in its “Commandments<\/a>“), but that it “allows<\/em>” it. Egads! <\/li>\n
  2. \nWikipedia “allows” various British\/non-American spellings in various topics, “even though most English speaking users are American,” Those damn Limey-loving bastards! <\/li>\n
  3. \nWikipedia doesn’t have a conservative bias, and actually emphasizes evolution, “even though most Americans (and probably most of the world) reject the theory of evolution<\/a>.” Most of the objections are that Wikipedia is biased because it doesn’t include conservatively biased sources.<\/li>\n
  4. \nWikipedia has lots of trivial entries and errors, and only relies on the contributing public (instead of Accepted Authorities) to correct it. Loosey-goosey elitists!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Or, to quote Conservapedia’s entry on Wikipedia<\/a> …<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    The administrators who monitor and control the content on Wikipedia do not represent the views of the majority of Americans, and many are in fact not American. For example, only 10% of Americans accept evolution as it is taught in public school, yet many Wikipedia administrators accept it as a sourced fact, and will censor material that contradicts evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Conservapedia sure seems a lot more interested in ideological correctness (“we favor Christianity and America”) than in actually dealing with facts<\/em>, and in tearing down Wikipedia than in demonstrating that it’s a reliable source of information. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n


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