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A place to discuss the corruption and issues with Conservapedia.

A place to discuss the corruption and issues with Conservapedia. Anything from one sided articles, historical revisionism, corruption among the editors, and so on is welcome here.

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Happy Cakeday, r/WikiInAction! Today you're 8

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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2022/12/05
08:36 UTC

1 Comment
2021/12/05
08:36 UTC

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Projection ho!

https://conservapedia.com/Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online wiki-based encyclopedia hosted and owned by the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation and financially supported by grants from left-leaning foundations plus an aggressive annual online fundraising drive.[1] Most of Wikipedia's articles can be edited publicly by both registered and anonymous editors,[2] mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed.[3] As such, it tends to project a liberal—and, in some cases, even socialist, Communist, and Nazi-sympathising—worldview, which is totally at odds with conservative reality and rationality.

Really?

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/iz4i3t/considering_how_many_time_conservapedia_got/

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/fbohjn/conservapedia_shows_incompetence_when_it_comes_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ek2qjt/conservapedia_misunderstands_quotemining/

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/capvp5/conservapedia_doesnt_even_know_what_fascism_is/

https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/lznymr/christains_think_not_getting_preferential/

https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/l7bhkq/there_is_alot_of_projection_here/

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/epmlpi/conservapedia_does_know_that_eugenics_and_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/lfjj1b/conserapedia_is_incompetent_at_hiding_the_truth/

6 Comments
2021/05/07
23:22 UTC

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True professionalism

https://www.conservapedia.com/The_Office

The Office is an NBC sitcom starring Steve Carell, who plays Michael Scott. It is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania. When The Office was at its best, it had conservative humor, despite being aired on NBC, however later seasons would become more offensive towards religious views.

...no examples are given. That is the entire entry...

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2021/03/10
05:43 UTC

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Conserapedia is incompetent at hiding the truth.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Worst_Liberal_Movies#cite_note-Dan_Rather.27s_Day_of_Reckoning-87

Anti-American/Anti-Vietnam War propaganda that infamously accused General William Westmoreland of deliberately understating the force strength of the Vietcong during the Tet Offensive. This resulted in a libel suit made by Westmoreland against CBS that promptly went to court after an internal investigation was issued due to TV Guide finding damning evidence of similar journalistic malpractice that was practiced in the earlier documentary/propaganda The Selling of the Pentagon, which ultimately resulted in CBS losing its libel insurance, as well as the documentary unit being scrapped when Larry Tisch took over in 1987

https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Worst_Liberal_Movies#cite_note-Dan_Rather.27s_Day_of_Reckoning-87

It turns out the General dropped the case...

The allegations about editing were not borne out by the evidence and the ultimate questions at trial became whether the allegations against Westmoreland were true and whether CBS was entitled to believe the high-ranking military officers who made those allegations in their interviews and stuck by them at trial.

CBS defended the documentary as true and called the military officers in question as witnesses at trial. They testified both at deposition and at trial that their criticisms of Westmoreland had been fairly represented in the documentary and they stood by them. Major General Joseph McChristian, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence under Westmoreland, testified at trial that when he had presented new increased enemy strength estimates, Westmoreland had responded that sending these figures to Washington would "create a political bombshell" and would "embarrass my commander in chief [President Johnson]." [9] General McChristian testified that, in withholding these figures, Westmoreland, "in being loyal to the President, was disloyal to his country."[10]

After McChristian stepped down, CBS called another military intelligence officer, Col. Gains Hawkins, who had worked under McChristian and Westmoreland. Hawkins's testimony supported McChristian's; Hawkins reaffirmed his allegations in his CBS interviews and in the documentary.

On February 18, 1985, shortly after McChristian's testimony, with Col. Hawkins still on the stand, and with the five-month trial expected to go to the jury within days, Westmoreland agreed to dismiss the case without payment, retraction or apology from CBS.

Westmoreland declared "victory," but later conceded that his team's "jury watcher" had concluded he was likely to lose.[15] The New York Times reported that Westmoreland had "surrendered to the evidence that . . . he and some of his aides in Vietnam in 1967 manipulated the estimates of enemy strength, apparently for political effect." "At the end, he stood in imminent danger of having a jury confirm the essential truth of the CBS report. For, in court, as on the original program, the general could not get past the testimony of high-ranking former subordinates who confirmed his having colored some intelligence information."[16] One of the jurors, speaking to the press when the trial adjourned, stated "The evidence in favor of CBS was overwhelming." [17]

Wow! Great job Conservapedia! It seems "patriotism" is synomous with lying.

Truthers Dylan Avery and Korey Rowe blame America for 9/11. Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones worked as Executive Producer (and don't let his paleoconservative/libertarian views fool you into thinking it is in any way a conservative documentary)

No True Scotsman fallacy for the win!

A 2002 schlockumentary directed by and starring leftist propagandist Michael Moore. It is a pro-gun control film and distorts facts in favor of gun-grabbing. Also included a "Brief history of the USA" segment using animation mirroring that of South Park, that distorted historical facts to make it seem as though guns were implemented by racists, which actually led to the South Park libertarian creators to condemn him, enough to give Moore a cameo in Team America as a suicide bomber and make his death especially graphic.

Was he wrong though? How did he distort facts? At the very least gun right and racism do go hand in hand: https://newrepublic.com/article/154652/gun-culture-always-white-supremacy

Attempts to "humanize" followers of The Satanic Temple and literal satanism, specifically depicting them as they try to get their monuments to Satan on government property and push their evil ideology on children, all while vilifying Christian values and portraying Conservative activists like Jason Rapert, an Arkansas State Senator who successfully got a monument of the 10 Commandments erected in front of the Arkansas State Capitol building, as un-patriotic bigots.

Ignoring the establishment clause...

Great Recession of 2008 on Wall Street, unspecified deregulations, the Bush Administration, and so on. He whitewashes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's role and virtually eschews any mention of the Community Reinvestment Act. While advertised as nonpartisan, it contains various interviews with Democratic politicians but none with Republican politicians. Finally, Ferguson blames the financial system for corrupting American politics.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-bushs-quiet-role-in-financial-crisis-deserves-attention-now-1536761487

5 Comments
2021/02/08
19:25 UTC

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When all else fails, use "Whataboutism"

https://www.conservapedia.com/Media_Matters_for_America

Despite trying to destroy the lives of conservatives for making controversial or vulgar comments, even if those comments were made many years prior, Media Matters has not made similar efforts against leftists who made extremely vulgar and bigoted comments.[33][34][35] Even the president of Media Matters made vulgar and bigoted comments as bad, if not worse, than the comments of those whose lives he had tried to destroy

For one thing, media matters expose them as liars, not simply being vulgar. https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/after-white-nationalist-troll-charged-election-interference-tucker-carlson-flatly

And your reports on those old blogs ignore context: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/28/40326045/media-matters-president-the-goal-isnt-to-bankrupt-fox-news-its-to-change-it

I looked at Carusone’s old blog, and while Tucker wasn’t lying, Carusone was very obviously kidding. The writing is an affectation, a voice, a parody of an ugly American. And yet, the hypocrisy, on both sides, is obvious, and I found myself siding, for maybe the first time, with a Fox News host over a progressive nonprofit. If Tucker Carlson’s old statements on the radio are problematic enough to make a big deal of a decade later, then what does this mean for everyone else?

Ignoring the fact that Tucker isn't a parody, but serious in his bigitory....

4 Comments
2021/02/08
01:17 UTC

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Such horrible ass kissing for Trump

https://www.conservapedia.com/Donald_Trump_achievements

Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, giving one of the strongest inauguration addresses in American history

Really? https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/the-facts-on-crowd-size/

https://www.conservapedia.com/Donald_Trump_achievements:_Religious_liberty_and_LGBT

This article is a non-exhaustive list of achievements by U.S. President Donald Trump, his administration, and Congress related to religious liberty and LGBT issues.

October 1, 2018—The Trump Administration implemented a rule denying visas to same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats, effectively reversing a 2009 Obama Administration decision.[73] While the Trump Administration based its decision on the faulty 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision, its action ended the special benefits provided to homosexual individuals in this area.[73]

By special priveksges, you mean the ones heterosexuals get?

February 22, 2017—President Trump rescinded former President Obama's pro-transgender guidelines for schools receiving federal aid that are subject to Title IX.[18] A day earlier, the Trump Administration announced it would discontinue Obama's pro-transgender policies,[19] and earlier that month the DOJ refused to defend the policy or appeal a court-ordered injunction on the policy.[20]

June 30, 2017—The Department of Defense announced it would delay an Obama Administration plan to have the military recruit transgender people for six months in order to ensure the military's readiness would not be affected by the change.[24] On July 26, 2017, President Trump announced he would reverse Obama's policy and disallow transgender people from serving in the military,[25] and he formally signed an order banning them from joining the military on August 25, 2017.[26] President Trump signed a final order on March 23, 2018, that banned transgender individuals from military service but with certain exceptions.[27]

October 4, 2017—The Department of Justice issued a memo reversing an Obama-era policy that had the DOJ interpret the scope of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to extend to "gender identity."[28]

The Interior Department removed "sexual orientation" from its 2017 ethics guide

Yes because those aren't biological, oh wait: https://www.reddit.com/r/GGdiscussion/comments/ete11k/billy_d_aka_oneangrygamer_has_returned_and_is_as/

And so much for our military readiness: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/12/07/retired-surgeons-general-say-trumps-transgender-ban-damaged-military-readiness/

Trump supporters aee bigots: https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/if7b8j/look_at_how_homophobes_celebrate_they_are_sick/

11 Comments
2021/02/03
05:58 UTC

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Something interesting I noticed on Conservapedia's Hillary Clinton article.

https://conservapedia.com/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton

At the bottom of the introduction, it says "Clinton is known for her racist remarks."

The source for that is a Slate article where she is being called out for backing the 1994 crime bill.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/04/bernie-sanders-calls-out-hillary-clinton-for-racist-language.html

Bernie Sanders is the one calling her out for backing the bill. According to their article on Sanders, he is a Commie bastard who shouldn't be trusted. Yet they cite him as a source.

Also, Clinton didn't even address Sanders calling her racist. She completely ignored it and never made a remark.

6 Comments
2020/12/20
04:46 UTC

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This is now a subreddit for mocking insane, one-sided Conservapedia articles!

34 Comments
2020/12/20
02:45 UTC

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