Wikipedia Watch: "Scientific Racism"
Studying Wikipedia would be a good way to study how the left takes over institutions. The leftist bias at Wikipedia is clear and extensive...and the history of the entries is well-documented. The tip of the left's spear at Wikipedia seems to be a smallish group of rabidly dedicated leftist editors who know the rules inside and out and use this knowledge to impart leftist bias to whatever entry they take an interest in. Then there are, of course, the mass of editors and readers that just go along with it all. If one of them gets uppity and un-spins an entry, the others will be there to swamp the correction and defend it with such rules-lawyering as to make Perkins Coie envious.
Here's just one example, the entry on "scientific racism." The term itself, of course, is chosen to discredit the view that races are natural kinds. And, of course, there is no entry for race realism, the mere view that races are natural kinds, with no adjunct view about superiority or inferiority of races. Folding realism about race into the category "scientific racism" is just one more bit of progressive Newspeak. Needless to say, there is no entry whatsoever for the commonsense and most scientific view, the sane view, that races are natural, biological kinds somewhere beneath the rank of subspecies.
The progressive view on race is that (a) races are "socially constructed," and (b) the view that they are natural kinds is racist. Of course "socially constructed" is itself a politically valenced concept, and is beloved of the left...and the phrase is used so indiscriminately and inconsistently that it means virtually nothing. The same old fallacious arguments are rehearsed--e.g. instances of the continuum fallacy--which, if valid, would "prove" that there are no natural kinds at all...
So Wikipedia has taken the commonsense view, the most scientifically well-justified view, refused to give it its own entry, and folded it into a completely different view, formed by adding a moral component to the scientific view...and then named that view [Something] Racism.
And this is not just some podunk site, but the site that has become the most widely-read encyclopedia in history.
Madness.
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