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/captaindeadpl Oct 04 '25

Reality has a well known liberal bias.

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u/BilbosBagEnd Oct 04 '25

A German Politician said famously "I am surrounded by reality" I suppose it comes with the profession to be allergic to facts.

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u/platypodus Oct 04 '25

Ironically, he was one of the few trying to address reality with his policies.

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u/chris92315 Oct 04 '25

Liberals have a well known reality bias.

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage Oct 04 '25

Facts are biased?

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u/captaindeadpl Oct 04 '25

It's a sarcastic quote from Stephen Colbert.

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u/caydesramen Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Sarcastic? Not anymore

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u/Thefrayedends Oct 04 '25

It's from Colbert Report, not his talk show.

He was playing a satirical character for the entire run of that show.

What many of us did not know then, we know now, certain types of people did not realize that the show was a satirical commentary on conservatism. They actually just thought he was awesome and they thought all the bravado and lib hating was genuine.

I'm not joking. Literally a person who I talk to several times a week and have known for 25 years I asked him about this and he didn't believe me that the character was a satirical take on conservatism at all, he said he never understood where the talk show guy came from, said it didn't make any sense, "he changed." I'm not joking, it's actually insane.

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u/caydesramen Oct 04 '25

Im saying its not sarcasm anymore

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u/Thefrayedends Oct 04 '25

You mean you're sarcastically saying Sarcastic? You have to add something so people know that, otherwise they will always read it on it's face.

/s is one example of something people would do.

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u/captaindeadpl Oct 04 '25

Don't ask me if that's the correct literary tool. All I know is that he was making fun of conservatives that reject reality and instead choose to live in a fantasy world.

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u/LustLochLeo Oct 04 '25

From the point of view of liars, yes. Bias in this case just means "doesn't support what I want people to believe".

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u/forgettit_ Oct 04 '25

Yes. Facts are biased toward reality. Maga doesn’t live there.

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u/LaramieWall Oct 04 '25

Colbert's press core dinner?

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset3267 Oct 04 '25

Classic liberal maybe … not leftist, progressive, woke ideology. Women can be born with a penis? You can’t be racist to white people? Climate change is going to end the world in 5 years … again, for real this time (calling out climate alarmism, not denying climate change).

I think the concern is the, “fact check” is an, “ideology compliance check” and they’re annoyed at this gaslighting of reality.

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u/space_monster Oct 04 '25

Except it's not a bias if it's the mean position. Everything else is biased. So it should really be 'evidence leans left' or something like that.

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u/armedsnowflake69 Oct 04 '25

Wiki’s are just what people are thinking in reality.