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by oefrha 1324 days ago
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund (Warning: filled to the brim with pc vocab.)

That was painful to read. If I wanted to promote “knowledge equity” I would focus on education in low and middle income countries, rather than pouring money on affirmative action in the richest country in the world and throwing fuel on culture war in said country and elsewhere.

I used to donate a small amount annually. No more from now on.

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So you'd suggest they gave money to, for example, Media Foundation for West Africa: The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting and defending the right to freedom of expression, particularly for media and human rights defenders, throughout the 16 countries in West Africa

or

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (US$250,000): The Arab Reporters in Journalism (ARIJ) is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in Jordan?

You missed the word “education” in my comment.

Books, Internet-in-a-Box, etc. for poor children in underdeveloped countries, now that kind of projects would be knowledge equity.

> pouring money on affirmative action in the richest country in the world

Are they spending that much money in Norway?