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> Findings show that Wikipedia entries are more likely to attach negative sentiment to terms representative of right-leaning political orientation than to their
by sofixa 8mo ago
> Findings show that Wikipedia entries are more likely to attach negative sentiment to terms representative of right-leaning political orientation than to their left-leaning counterparts
Is that a bias or just reality?
Right leaning politicians in the US include people paying underage girls for sex, people screaming about "Jewish Space lasers", people obviously stealing money in plain sight with crypto pumps and dumps, people running away from responsibility, people getting caught engaging in sexual acts in public, and on and on and on. Their left-wing equivalents are... extremely mild by comparison. What, some run of the mill corruption and sexual comments that resulted in resignations?
If go past "right wing is associated with more negative things", and look into what those negative things are, you'd realise it's just reality. Just because there are two parties and two categories of political leanings doesn't mean they are somehow equal.
- elzbardico 8mo agoYes, the left engages only in "mostly peaceful protests"
- throwawayqqq11 8mo agoCitation needed for mostly violent protest.
- hexagonsuns 8mo ago"Bias isn't bias if I agree with the side it's taking!"
- sofixa 8mo agoIt's not bias if it's factual reality. You not liking it doesn't make it bias.
- hexagonsuns 8mo agoIt is bias if your "factual reality" over-exaggerates the "facts" for the "bad guys" and under-exaggerates / completely neglects to report on the "good guys"
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- array_key_first 8mo agoThere are also genuinely good guys and bad guys. Reality, itself, has a bias. To think that ideology doesn't correlate at all with how moral you might act is, frankly, stupid. Not all positions are created equal.
- throwawayqqq11 8mo agoWhich is true for all propaganda outlets. But to put it with John Steward, what if reality itself has a left leaning bias? What if left leaning people have empirically broader empathy [0] which could imply that right leaning people have in tendency worse personalities. I guess you would attest yet another biased article here. [0]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10281241/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10281241/