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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Far-Right: (Still) Obsessed with the homos
I looked about six months (maybe a year) ago at Conservapedia, the right-wing answer to Wikipedia, that "is free of corruption by liberal untruths," such as science or reason.

It's still going strong, though of course they've expanded slightly - they have 22 thousand pages now. I'm sure at least one or two isn't about God, liberals, or gays. Which sounds great until you realize that Wikipedia has roughly 10,000,000 (at a glancing guess; count if you like), and in about a hundred languages. The conservapedians also love trashing Wikipedia itself, claiming that the entry for "conservatism" is "over 4500 words of confusion without any mention of marriage, gun rights or personal accountability." I guess Wikipedia's authors lost the mouth-breathers when they started quoting Hobbes.

Ironically, Wikipedia has a fantastic entry about Conservapedia that tells the whole story about how it was created, why, and other things that are laughably terrible.

Anyway, the reason I check in every so often is because they have a wonderful "top 10 articles" thing that comes with Wiki, the code engine that runs the site. Once upon a time, it was the subject of an auto-clicker bot, but the numbers have shifted... towards different homo articles. And Hitler. In that article, Jews are mentioned twice, and homosexuals don't even merit a mention. Instead, there's a long section about how the Nazis liked to espouse evolution.

Wow.

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