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by wongarsu 1 hour ago
Ok, saying things like "The left marched through this institution. There’s no reason we can’t march right back" is pretty bad.

To be clear: it would be equally bad if you swapped left and right in that sentence. I don't know if his assessment of the issues with Wikipedia is correct, but his solutions aren't what you propose if you want to make Wikipedia more neutral

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> Ok, saying things like "The left marched through this institution. There’s no reason we can’t march right back" is pretty bad.

He’s not saying they need to “march through this institution”. He’s saying they need to learn how to navigate the increasingly Byzantine rules set up by the small number of editors so they can contribute to the site.

>Ok, saying things like "The left marched through this institution. There’s no reason we can’t march right back" is pretty bad.

Why is that bad?

>To be clear: it would be equally bad if you swapped left and right in that sentence.

Not at all, if it was swapped, the left would be calling for diversity, equity, and inclusion. They'd call those opposing said diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives every -ist they could throw, all while playing the victim.

Then O'Sullivan's First Law inevitably comes true and the terminally online leftist entryists shut anyone right of them out.