▲ 1220 ▼ Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 281 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) If you're going to try to cite a claim, please don't just drop the Wikipedia pages on the subjects. In fact, don't cite Wikipedia at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] splonglo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Complicated subjects like this have dozens of citations which often contradict eachother. The great thing about wikipedia is that it shows multiple sources and where they came from. This is a far higher standard of evidence than just cherry-picking one source that agrees with me and pretending that it's definitive. Meanwhile the only thing you've cited is your imagination. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago Yeah, but you don't actually check any it the citations, nobody who cites Wikipedia does. You didn't even say which part of the Wikipedia articles you were citing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] splonglo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Complicated subjects like this have dozens of citations which often contradict eachother. The great thing about wikipedia is that it shows multiple sources and where they came from. This is a far higher standard of evidence than just cherry-picking one source that agrees with me and pretending that it's definitive. Meanwhile the only thing you've cited is your imagination. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago Yeah, but you don't actually check any it the citations, nobody who cites Wikipedia does. You didn't even say which part of the Wikipedia articles you were citing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago Yeah, but you don't actually check any it the citations, nobody who cites Wikipedia does. You didn't even say which part of the Wikipedia articles you were citing permalink fedilink source parent