▲ 1073 ▼ They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 330 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Good point. I forgot to mention that Wikipedia editors, for all their flaws, are really good at shutting down hateful right wing bullshit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children) So you’d categorize it as hateful right wing bullshit if someone mentions that there as violence or criminal activity at BLM protests? Why would that be hateful? Or right wing? Or anything other than just a description of what happened? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Mudface@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Exactly permalink fedilink source parent [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 years ago You can have violence at a largely peaceful protest, as long as it is ... largely peaceful. Which they were, the majority ended peacefully and only a handful were violent. So what Wikipedia did was state the facts. You can disagree with those facts, but you would be wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children) So you’d categorize it as hateful right wing bullshit if someone mentions that there as violence or criminal activity at BLM protests? Why would that be hateful? Or right wing? Or anything other than just a description of what happened? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Mudface@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Exactly permalink fedilink source parent [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 years ago You can have violence at a largely peaceful protest, as long as it is ... largely peaceful. Which they were, the majority ended peacefully and only a handful were violent. So what Wikipedia did was state the facts. You can disagree with those facts, but you would be wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 years ago You can have violence at a largely peaceful protest, as long as it is ... largely peaceful. Which they were, the majority ended peacefully and only a handful were violent. So what Wikipedia did was state the facts. You can disagree with those facts, but you would be wrong. permalink fedilink source parent