Jimmy Wales
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No, it didn't.
Like, that's crazy.
And we're not going to print that.
And so they're going to have to get over it.
Well, I mean, I think the correct answer is you have to address all of that.
You have to say, look, this was a person, I think the least controversial thing you could say about Charlie Kirk is that he was controversial.
I don't think anybody would dispute that.
And to say like, okay, this was a figure who was a great hero to many people and treated as a demon by others.
He had these views, many of which are out of step with, say, mainstream scientific thinking, many of which are very much in step with religious thinking and so on and so forth.
And those are the kinds of things that if we do our job well, which I think we have in this case, we're going to describe all of that.
Like maybe you don't know anything about Charlie Kirk.
You just heard, oh my God, this man was assassinated.
Who was he?
What's this all about?
Well, you should come and learn all that.
You should learn like who his supporters were and why they supported him and what are the arguments he put forward and what are the things he said that upset people.
That's just part of learning what the world is about.
Well, it depends on the specific criticism.
So, if the criticism is, this word appeared on this page for 17 minutes, I'm like, you know what, you've got to understand how Wikipedia works.
It's a process, it's a discourse, it's a dialogue.