4/17/2024, 5:42:03 PM · by ransomnote · 57 replies
X ^ | Apr 17, 2024 | Katherine Maher via @realchrisrufo
Posted on 04/18/2024 4:34:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
ransomnote: I confess I kept the unattractive image of her below even though I could have retaken the screenshot to get a 'fair and balanced' image of her, but she's against all that because it supports the 'White Male' canon...so her pic is below as is. Video is less than 2 minutes in length.
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848
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Katherine Maher: I started by talking about the idea of free and open information as some of our founding principles 'Free and open source' coming from the idea of the open source community .
Well, I have come to the opinion and the perspective that 'free and open' was a way of looking at the world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve.
'Free and open' has the best of intentionality, but in the end, what 'free and open' often ended up doing, particularly in the case of Wikipedia, was recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that exist offline, prior to the advent of the Internet.
And so what we ended up seeing was Wikipedia really rebuilt this idea of knowledge as a whole around what, the Western canon.
We see the exclusion of communities, of languages, because of the ways in which Wikpedia Is based on reliable sources, the idea of a written tradition, which is particular to some cultures and not to others.
The ways in which we ascribe notability often really comes some of this white male Westernized construct around who matters in societies, and who is elevated and who is voiceless.
And so some of these ideas of, sort of this, radical openness really did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.TRANSCRIPT ENDS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ransomnote: This woman seems to function like the Typhoid Mary of wokeness, having moved on to 'help' NPR undermine American values and the First Amendment. Here's a related post.
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.
So would I.
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I think she thinks she’s better than we are.
She’s deep state all the way and will do whatever they want.
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.
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?
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.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil
She epitomizes this truth
actually just a single white man named Al Gore created the internet
blondes love the BBC
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.
Her skull is an ideological landfill.
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.
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.
Marx was a White Male from the West. Why not rebel against him?
Arrogant too.
Apparently, White people actually ARE supreme ...
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.
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
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