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@realchrisrufo | Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct"
X ^ | 4/18/2024 | Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo, Katherine Maher

Posted on 04/18/2024 4:34:17 PM PDT by ransomnote

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To: ransomnote

She can really spew the elitist bs talk to make herself sound smarter. She has a BA degree from NYU. Big freakin’ deal. She’s worked really hard to fit in with the elites.

I see that she’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Maher worked for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute (funded by groups like SOROS’ Open Society Foundations), the World Bank and Access Now before joining the Wikimedia Foundation. She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.


21 posted on 04/18/2024 5:13:49 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Lurker

So would I.

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22 posted on 04/18/2024 5:15:00 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ransomnote

I think she thinks she’s better than we are.


23 posted on 04/18/2024 5:18:14 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: ransomnote

She’s deep state all the way and will do whatever they want.


24 posted on 04/18/2024 5:18:21 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: DoodleBob
Maher worked for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank and Access Now...

Can't get much more anti-Western than all that. Now if someone could just inform me of what "intentionality" means in the English language I should be much obliged.

25 posted on 04/18/2024 5:20:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Angelino97

The white lady that ran the 7th most visited website actively promoting anti white racism doesn’t seem to be pulling back.

Where’s the outrage?


26 posted on 04/18/2024 5:20:34 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: DoodleBob

Bravo! That ‘splains a lot. Why a crowdsourced encyclopedia can’t be compatible with the common knowledge and culture. In fact it had to be changed to be a closed club editing anything controversial. Actually wikipedia now seems to be just another government cyber influence project.


27 posted on 04/18/2024 5:25:46 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: jimwatx

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil

She epitomizes this truth


28 posted on 04/18/2024 5:32:46 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: Angelino97

actually just a single white man named Al Gore created the internet


29 posted on 04/18/2024 5:45:53 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

blondes love the BBC


30 posted on 04/18/2024 5:47:22 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: ransomnote

She says some cultures don’t have a written tradition and Wikipedia was leaving them out.

Wikipedia is written, and if people want to transcribe oral knowledge they can. If they want to start a recorded OralLorepedia they can do that too.

She says there was too much defaulting to who and what was considered important by the West. In an open source reference, you can add people who are important in other cultures. You can add all the women and people of color and nonbinary types you want, because it’s open source. She chooses instead to suppress the West and Western tradition and history.


31 posted on 04/18/2024 5:48:19 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: boycott

Her skull is an ideological landfill.


32 posted on 04/18/2024 6:28:57 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: takebackaustin

Most of Wikipedia is quite good, or even excellent. Science, technology, geography, locations, history (up to a point), militaria, languages, even sociology.

It is in nearly every way far more useful than any printed encyclopedia ever. It does not approach the literary quality of the old Britannica, but that is a very tall order.

Where Wiki fails is, almost always, when it intersects with current politics. Even controversial topics like the Spanish Civil War are fairly even handed, and cite all sides.

Non-English/American subjects are generally much better handled in their own sections of Wiki. French, German, Spanish, etc. But that is to be expected.


33 posted on 04/18/2024 6:55:25 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: takebackaustin

As I said upthread, the vast bulk of Wiki is not influenced by modern politics.

My case in point - the perennially controversial Spanish Civil War is very decently cited, including both “sides”, such as they still matter. It cites Thomas and Beevor, both Preston an Payne, and even (the rightist controversialist) Pio Moa. Among many, many others. If you want a place to start on this subject, the Wiki is excellent.


34 posted on 04/18/2024 7:06:13 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: ransomnote

Marx was a White Male from the West. Why not rebel against him?


35 posted on 04/18/2024 7:21:15 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Arrogant too.


36 posted on 04/18/2024 7:24:03 PM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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To: ransomnote

Apparently, White people actually ARE supreme ...


37 posted on 04/18/2024 7:24:08 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ransomnote
So she decided to adopt a white, male Soviet construct instead.
38 posted on 04/18/2024 7:52:17 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: boycott

Like many lefties (and they’re called that because they’re on the LEFT-side of the Bell Curve) she is credentialed but not educated. Credentialed but indoctrinated and incapable of critical thinking. Such are generally loaded to the gills with hubris.


39 posted on 04/18/2024 8:05:37 PM PDT by curious7
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To: marktwain

I’m kind of liking this trend of repeat violent black & brown bodied felons clocking Blue city white women in the face.....white savior knockout might just become my favorite new spectator sport


40 posted on 04/18/2024 10:02:15 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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