User:Emijrp/Bias in Wikipedia
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Wikipedia is a great and inspiring project. Spreading all human knowledge for free is one of the best achievements the world can pursue. The problem starts when that knowledge is biased. And not shaped and biased in any way, but in a way that benefits the ruling class.
In Marxist philosophy, the term cultural hegemony describes the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of that society — the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class worldview becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm; as the universally valid dominant ideology that justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural, inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class. |
Malcolm X said "if you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Newspapers are references in Wikipedia, what could possibly go wrong? Of course, this is not the only source of bias, but one of the most blatant.
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