And I thought Wikipedia’s deletionists were exclusionist. Oh, boy, was I wrong… the real exclusionists created their own Wikipedia-clone:
“Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American… Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America.”
How can it possibly be an objective source of “historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics” by excluding the views of the majority of the World?
As for Christianity and America, I hate to bring this to the Conservafolks, but Christianity really, really did not originate in America. Not that Conservapedia’s entry on Christianity explains anything – you’ll have to check out Wikipedia for that.
Conservapedia doesn’t fare any better on the *minor* [sic] contribution to history, science, culture, architecture ..etc by pre-Christian civilizations like Egypt, China, Greece ..etc. For example here’s the entire entry on Egypt:
“The oldest non-nomadic civilization in the world which still exists today. Egypt is located in north-east Africa. ”
Greece does not do any better:
“The collective term for the civilizations of the Greek subcontinent.”
Nice. Concise? Pathetic.
Conservapedia started as a school project. (Again, we have to visit Wikipedia, not Conservapedia to learn this). I’m sure eliminating diversity, filtering out most of the World’s knowledge is the best way to improve our kids’ education. As if America were not already falling behind in education. My advice to the Conservafolks: get Senator Ted Stevens on board.
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