"Conserva"--Hawai`ian for "correct"
Having had parody on my mind earlier in the evening, I thought I should finally check out the new parody of Wikipedia, the Conservapedia. Created in order to combat the liberal bias of the web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit, the Conservapedia provides a web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit with a conservative bias, although to be fair, The Conservapedia Commandments do not require an editor to write from a conservative bias.
In case you do not believe them when they say there is a liberal bias in the Wikipedia, the Conservapedia provides a handy growing list of Examples of bias in Wikipedia. Such things as how "Wikipedia features an entry on 'anti-racist mathematics.'" The Conservapedia's decision that neither this term nor ethnomathematics should have definitions is indeed correct.
Two glaring examples of the liberal bias concern John Seigenthaler's wiki bio, and how it slandered the conservative journalist by saying that he briefly worked as an administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (They go so far as to accuse him of riding with the Freedom Riders and being knocked unconsious by a mob with the police refusing to help.) and then later worked on his presidential campaign and was a pallbearer at his funeral. The Wikipedia also alleges that Seigenthaler worked to defeat corruption in the Teamsters union. All these problems will be corrected when the Conservapedia gets around to writing its article about John Seigenthaler.
In an effort to show the big tent of conservatism, many different definitions of the word conservative can be applied to their articles. For example, in Wikipedia, the gratuitous article on energy conservation scrolls on screen after screen with pictures and links to more information. Conservapedia definitely lives up to the "avoiding excess" definition here by not having an article on energy conservation at all, saving the amount of electricity required to store and display Wikipedia's planet-destroying article.
While I am in favor of the "uniquely American doctrine" of free speech as much as the next man, I do feel that if we do not find the liberal activitists who created this parody encyclopedia to spread the notion that conservatives are closed-minded and shut them down, the terrorists win.
In case you do not believe them when they say there is a liberal bias in the Wikipedia, the Conservapedia provides a handy growing list of Examples of bias in Wikipedia. Such things as how "Wikipedia features an entry on 'anti-racist mathematics.'" The Conservapedia's decision that neither this term nor ethnomathematics should have definitions is indeed correct.
Two glaring examples of the liberal bias concern John Seigenthaler's wiki bio, and how it slandered the conservative journalist by saying that he briefly worked as an administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (They go so far as to accuse him of riding with the Freedom Riders and being knocked unconsious by a mob with the police refusing to help.) and then later worked on his presidential campaign and was a pallbearer at his funeral. The Wikipedia also alleges that Seigenthaler worked to defeat corruption in the Teamsters union. All these problems will be corrected when the Conservapedia gets around to writing its article about John Seigenthaler.
In an effort to show the big tent of conservatism, many different definitions of the word conservative can be applied to their articles. For example, in Wikipedia, the gratuitous article on energy conservation scrolls on screen after screen with pictures and links to more information. Conservapedia definitely lives up to the "avoiding excess" definition here by not having an article on energy conservation at all, saving the amount of electricity required to store and display Wikipedia's planet-destroying article.
While I am in favor of the "uniquely American doctrine" of free speech as much as the next man, I do feel that if we do not find the liberal activitists who created this parody encyclopedia to spread the notion that conservatives are closed-minded and shut them down, the terrorists win.
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