• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    You seem to be painting with a very broad brush there. I’ve never considered Wikipedia to be free of these problems, I doubt there is any reference work that is completely objectively true.

    But it tries to be better one edit at a time.

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      14 days ago

      I’m generalising. You may not be guilty of this, but your average western liberal is. See, for example, other comments in this thread.

      But it tries to be better one edit at a time.

      You’re attaching a spiritual quality to an inanimate thing. Wikipedia doesn’t “try” to be anything.

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        14 days ago

        fine, replace “it” with “the community” if the impersonal subject confuses you.

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          13 days ago

          Well the community sure as hell doesn’t try to be better; if anything they work hard to entrench these problems as hard as possible.