Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.


It was the great Steven Colbert who said "And reality has a well-known liberal bias." [ he did so last year at the White House Correspondents Dinner] ,And I almost shat bricks today laughing as I found out that the right has decided, once again, that Steven Colbert knows his stuff.

I found today Conservapedia. Conservapedia is suppose to be the right wing's answer to Wikipedia...
This made me laugh as I did NOT think that Wikipedia was the left's answer to ANYTHING. In fact the super intelligent Colbert also coined the phrase Wikiality which is "Reality as determined by general consensus rather than cold hard facts. If enough people say it is true, then it is true"( ubran dictionary- second definition of Wikiality).

So I guess the majority of people who use the internets are liberal- because IF anyone is able to change Wikipedia... but they STILL find it too liberal; then it follows that the group consenus is LIBERAL.

My foray into Conserapedia was short today- as comics and herocrack comes out today so the only page I checked out was their 'manifesto' where they complain about the libral bias of reality... I mean Wikipedia.
I could spend days ripping this appart. I mean they first start out with the fact that Wiki uses C.E.( Common Era) instead of A.D. Because they want EVERYONE to realize that the year 1 on their calendar is the year that Jesus was born. Because they first have to establish that Christans invented the calendar( no, wait that was like the greeks or romans... hence having two months named after pagens and none after the apostles). Second point was the fact that "Wikipedia's entry for the Renaissance denies any credit to Christianity, its primary inspiration." And no their third point is not asking for them to give credit to the Christans for the dark ages, witch burnings, or repressing science.
One of my favorite complaints was #13- "Edits to include facts against the theory of evolution are almost immediately censored. " My first thought was again, gee maybe that's because MOST intelligent people believe in evolution.

Oh and a shout out to my Canadian peeps- because apparently reality also has British spelling- as #9( which I guess means it peeves them more then the evolutionary slant of wiki)
Wikipedia often uses foreign spelling of words, even though most English-speaking users are American. Look up "Most Favored Nation" on Wikipedia and it automatically converts the spelling to the British spelling "Most Favoured Nation." Look up "Division of labor" on Wikipedia and it automatically converts to the British spelling "Division of labour," then insists on the British spelling for "specialization" also.[9] Enter "Hapsburg" (the European ruling family) and Wikipedia automatically changes the spelling to Habsburg, even though the American spelling has always been "Hapsburg". Within entries British spellings appear in the silliest of places, even when the topic is American. Conservapedia favors American spellings of words.

And I get another chuckle out of them correcting the spelling for Habsburg. Geez don't those wikis know that how Americans spell something should trump THIERS, even if it it's THEIR last name

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