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Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.

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[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 112 points 8 months ago

She cannot believe that an innovator in mass murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995. Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: "This is, of course, nonsense."

lmao

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: "This is, of course, nonsense."

I'm guessing that "appears to confirm" really means that the book described the claim, but some people can misinterpret stating an argument as the same thing as making or affirming an argument. This is some advanced quote mining/cherry-picking the likes of witch the world has never seen before.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 56 points 8 months ago

McCarthyists famous for stopping you from glorifying fascists.

[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

At this point I truly believe alot of wikipedia editors are 3 letter agency department employees

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

It would be more unbelievable if they weren’t

[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

That's the thing right. Like who would be insane enough to do this sort of propaganda for free.

[-] blight@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

I have some bad news...

[-] xapr 10 points 8 months ago

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia/cia-fbi-computers-used-for-wikipedia-edits-idUSN1642896020070816

There are many other stories affirming the same, if you search for wikipedia cia edits, for instance.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago

Now that's posting as praxis

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago

Reading about this person has put a shine on my whole day.

[-] Stpetergriffonsberg@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

Great article, real bloomer stuff, thanks for posting stalin-approval

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Thank you for sharing this is a great find! I used to browse wikipedia heavily and trusted it a lot more than I should have but when that trust broke I started to really notice how biased so many pages are.

[-] AsleepInspector@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Fuck a Nazi

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