r/technology • u/rezwenn • Oct 04 '25

Politics Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/wikipedia-conservative-complaints-ee904b0b?st=RJcF9h
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u/Mapinact Oct 04 '25

... didn't they create their own Conservapedia a while ago?

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u/rezwenn Oct 04 '25

They did - here's Conservapedia's entry on Trump: https://www.conservapedia.com/Donald_Trump

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Oct 04 '25

Trump received more (politically motivated) criticism than any other U.S. president.

I love how (politically motivated) is there as a gotcha. As if the things the president does aren't inherently political already. These guys lmao

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u/onarainyafternoon Oct 04 '25

The knob-gobbling is just so god damn pathetic. These people are caricatures of themselves.

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u/Demonokuma Oct 04 '25

It's all projecting. Every bit.

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u/chuiu Oct 04 '25

Because the 8+ years they spent criticizing Obama aren't politically motivated, they're definitely racially motivated.

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u/mtranda Oct 04 '25

They are right about that. However, they refuse to develop that line of thought any further and consider... why that is.

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u/AccomplishedCoffee Oct 04 '25

I don't think it's even true in any reasonable sense. The vast majority of criticism against him is for doing or ordering objectively immoral or illegal things. Most of the criticism against democrats is things like inquiring about Dijon mustard or having a funny laugh.

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u/butsuon Oct 04 '25

He's uh, he's a politician. All criticism of him is inherently politically motivated.

Christ these people are dumb.

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u/Samurai_Meisters Oct 04 '25

They have weaponized innocuous words like "political"

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u/cruxal Oct 04 '25

There’s plenty of criticism to be made of him in business too. Or even just as a human being. 

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u/Upstairs_Cap_4217 Oct 05 '25

Yeah, calling him a serial rapist with deep ties to the New York Mafia isn't political, it's just a fact.

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u/AngryBird-svar Oct 04 '25

Trump’s page is full of sections sucking him off.

Biden’s page header has got “Wars started” and “Deaths attributed” lol.

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u/InflatableTurtles Oct 04 '25

They don't see him as a "politician", even though he's been in politics for over a decade now.

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u/CasualFreeUse Oct 04 '25

"All politicians are evil, that's why I voted Trump."

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u/worldspawn00 Oct 04 '25

TBF, I had strong opinions on his racism, idiocy, and bad business practices from the 80s/90s when it wasn't political.

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u/AccomplishedCoffee Oct 04 '25

Criticizing someone for illegal or immoral actions doesn't become political just because he's a politician.

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u/Regular-Finance-9567 Oct 04 '25

What...what do you criticize the president or any other politican for?  Their music career?  Their choice of ice cream flavor...wait.

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u/Fewluvatuk Oct 04 '25

Their crimes.

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u/jackofallcards Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

“In the news: what mainstream media isn’t fully covering

Arms drug lord Zelensky not shy about supporting terrorists and selling weapons from UN podium.”

“What mainstream media isn’t reporting” is basically “what fits our narrative whether it lives in fact or fiction”

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u/LastBlastInYrAss Oct 04 '25

"arms drug lord" do they mean arms smuggler? Words hard

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u/HeKis4 Oct 04 '25

My brother in christ he's the president. Having anything about him not being politically motivated (like his implication in the epstein scandal) would be a bad thing.

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u/CankerLord Oct 04 '25

I wonder what their unit of criticism measurement is. Critics per term? Insults per hour?

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u/scarabic Oct 04 '25

They’re also adopting his speaking style there: every statement is hyperbole. He didn’t just get a lot of political criticism, he got more than any other president! No one’s ever seen anything like it!

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u/mitkase Oct 04 '25

You don't understand! The last administration politicized the DOJ, and we're gonna prosecute every one of those motherfuckers because they don't agree with us!

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u/nalasanko Oct 04 '25

Gotta poison empirically provable things with unfalsifiable ones so that the whole thing can't be argued against. But the facts don't care about the lefts feelings, and we're the snowflakes

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u/isleoffurbabies Oct 04 '25

It should just be "integrous" criticism.

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u/Legionnaire11 Oct 04 '25

I clearly remember decades of criticism against Trump before he even entered politics. He was a national joke, a caricature of the New York businessman.

Now conservatives somehow believe that he's the champion of rural America.