I admire his relentless pursuit for the truth. I have a similar truth-seeking drive in me. For whatever reason I chose to doubt my doubts and believe while I continued searching for answers whereas he couldn’t do that until he had more answers. Seek and you shall find.
Larry Sanger's Wikipedia (founded by Sanger) entry is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
In a February 2021 interview with Carrie Sheffield on Pluto TV, Sanger criticized Wikipedia's coverage of socialism, saying that "when schoolkids go, and they look up answers to questions about the meaning of 'socialism' ... they're going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject", "And that's really problematic. That's not education. That's propaganda." He claimed that Wikipedia was originally "committed to neutrality" until "about 10 years ago" when "liberals or leftists made their march through the institutions ... and basically took [Wikipedia] over", adding that "They started getting rid of citations from conservative sources, even conservative sources that were cited in order to explain the conservative point of view. At least in some cases, that was the case, and more and more, certain points of view were castigated and labeled". When asked about Wikipedia's reaction to his criticism, Sanger said that "They ignore me" and that "They don't care what I say, and the feeling is mutual."[70]
Seems he thinks that leftists have been trying to silence their opposition instead of debating them. It also seems from the OP that he has an inherent distaste for that sort of thing although it appears he was originally sympathetic to them. Maybe common sense really is making a comeback.
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I admire his relentless pursuit for the truth. I have a similar truth-seeking drive in me. For whatever reason I chose to doubt my doubts and believe while I continued searching for answers whereas he couldn’t do that until he had more answers. Seek and you shall find.
Larry Sanger's Wikipedia (founded by Sanger) entry is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
In a February 2021 interview with Carrie Sheffield on Pluto TV, Sanger criticized Wikipedia's coverage of socialism, saying that "when schoolkids go, and they look up answers to questions about the meaning of 'socialism' ... they're going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject", "And that's really problematic. That's not education. That's propaganda." He claimed that Wikipedia was originally "committed to neutrality" until "about 10 years ago" when "liberals or leftists made their march through the institutions ... and basically took [Wikipedia] over", adding that "They started getting rid of citations from conservative sources, even conservative sources that were cited in order to explain the conservative point of view. At least in some cases, that was the case, and more and more, certain points of view were castigated and labeled". When asked about Wikipedia's reaction to his criticism, Sanger said that "They ignore me" and that "They don't care what I say, and the feeling is mutual."[70]
Seems he thinks that leftists have been trying to silence their opposition instead of debating them. It also seems from the OP that he has an inherent distaste for that sort of thing although it appears he was originally sympathetic to them. Maybe common sense really is making a comeback.
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