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> I know it sounds like he’s “poisoning the well,” but this comment answered the question I had in my head. I thought the source was left-leaning but the articl
by cheph 6y ago
> I know it sounds like he’s “poisoning the well,” but this comment answered the question I had in my head. I thought the source was left-leaning but the article had a conservative voice.
Comment contradicts what is in wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek#2018_investigation_and_firings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek#2018_investigation_an...
Maybe ask for sources before using some random post making unverified claims as confirmation for your own biases.
- mellosouls 6y agoThe summary in Wikipedia may be correct but it is worth remembering that Wikipedia itself is hideously biased to the left at times in its coverage of political issues. I've generally taken that not to be down to malevolence but probably just down to the fact those drawn to editing it are most likely of a similar political hue to those from academia.
- opheliate 6y agoHonest question: Could you point to some examples of Wikipedia's "hideous" left-wing bias? Not trying to catch you out, I've just personally always been surprised by how neutral Wikipedia's political articles tend to be when I've read them, and I'd like to challenge my own perception here.
- barbacoa 6y agohttps://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
- mellosouls 6y agoThanks for that; a very thorough overview I hadn't read and it saves me going through wikipedia to find some examples for the (reasonable) request in response to my previous comment. I should point out that there are plenty of editors who lean left that make genuine attempts to keep it out of their editing and are as frustrated as me about those who don't; I genuinely suspect it is an editor-demographics numbers thing that causes the imbalance as much as anything, as previously stated.
- h_anna_h 6y agoNot left-wing bias but rather US democrat bias see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspiracy_theory/Archive_3#DKIM_email_verification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_con... > I've just personally always been surprised by how neutral Wikipedia's political articles tend to be when I've read them My experience so far is that they manage to polarize even articles unrelated to politics, I think that it is partially caused by the toxicity of the community.
- ashneo76 6y agoWhen you are in the wrong lane, everybody is going against you? Has it struck you that maybe the world is actually that way and that they prefer to be that way. Just because it isn't your way doesn't mean that you dismiss the rest of the world.
- mellosouls 6y agoI'm a man of the left, which is partly why I find these issues so shameful. So you'll need to clarify how I'm "in the wrong lane".
- cozuya 6y agoWhat's the Occam's Razor of "everyone smart enough to be in advanced learning seems to have the same political bias", do you think?
- aleister_777 6y agoThey are all drinking from the same self-righteous well of "morality". The fact that they consider themselves "advanced" also seems to translate that they are also "correct" in all matters, regardless of their expertise.
- cozuya 6y agoI'm pretty sure the simplest explanation doesn't involve so many double quotes.
- mellosouls 6y agoAnecdotal, but many of the stupidest, most blinkered people I've ever met are those with "advanced learning".
- Izkata 6y agoThere was an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that addressed this something along the lines of, "the smarter you are, the easier it is to talk yourself into doublethink".