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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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

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Being smug to fascist apologists is actually good though

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I might be misreading things, but it’s the fascist apologist wikipedia editor that wrote up a summary of correct things then smugged all over it calling it incorrect.

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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.

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McCarthyists famous for stopping you from glorifying fascists.

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

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It would be more unbelievable if they weren’t

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

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I have some bad news…

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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.

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Now that’s posting as praxis

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

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