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minus-squareAlex@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoYou seem to be painting with a very broad brush there. I’ve never considered Wikipedia to be free of these problems, I doubt there is any reference work that is completely objectively true. But it tries to be better one edit at a time.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI’m generalising. You may not be guilty of this, but your average western liberal is. See, for example, other comments in this thread. But it tries to be better one edit at a time. You’re attaching a spiritual quality to an inanimate thing. Wikipedia doesn’t “try” to be anything.
minus-squareAlex@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agofine, replace “it” with “the community” if the impersonal subject confuses you.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWell the community sure as hell doesn’t try to be better; if anything they work hard to entrench these problems as hard as possible.
minus-squareRiverRock@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoIn fact, it often gets worse one edit at a time
You seem to be painting with a very broad brush there. I’ve never considered Wikipedia to be free of these problems, I doubt there is any reference work that is completely objectively true.
But it tries to be better one edit at a time.
I’m generalising. You may not be guilty of this, but your average western liberal is. See, for example, other comments in this thread.
You’re attaching a spiritual quality to an inanimate thing. Wikipedia doesn’t “try” to be anything.
fine, replace “it” with “the community” if the impersonal subject confuses you.
Well the community sure as hell doesn’t try to be better; if anything they work hard to entrench these problems as hard as possible.
Go fuck yourself
In fact, it often gets worse one edit at a time