Thursday, February 22, 2007
Who Needs Facts When You Have the Truth?
And once again, the authoritarian right reveals that when they want everything to be "fair" and "balanced", they don't want to be challenged, and that anyone who dares disagree with them had better shut up. Case in point: Conservapedia!
That's right; Conservapedia. According to the founders of the site, Wikipedia, what with its tendency to allow anyone to alter an entry and a dedication to avoiding bias, is obviously heavily slanted towards the left. So, a new bastion for unchallenged conservative thought has developed, with a dedication towards being open sourced but not, y'know, that open-sourced.
I'd value the dedication of certain people to the goal of absolutely rewriting reality if I wasn't trapped in the same dimension as them.
That's right; Conservapedia. According to the founders of the site, Wikipedia, what with its tendency to allow anyone to alter an entry and a dedication to avoiding bias, is obviously heavily slanted towards the left. So, a new bastion for unchallenged conservative thought has developed, with a dedication towards being open sourced but not, y'know, that open-sourced.
I'd value the dedication of certain people to the goal of absolutely rewriting reality if I wasn't trapped in the same dimension as them.
