Larry Sanger
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And then P in GASP stands for progressive.
And well, I guess that doesn't really need a lot of explanation.
more or less know what that means.
There are lots of examples that you can give on all of these points.
But a good recent example is something that I would call progressive is the Gaza genocide article.
In this article, in the first paragraph, if you read it over, you will see that Wikipedia claims in what's called WikiVoice, in its own voice, that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
does not represent, even to attribute to them, the Israeli view on the subject.
And so it's clearly biased against the Israeli point of view, which is also held by a lot of Americans.
I see.
So I'm not saying that it's incorrect.
I'm not saying that Gaza didn't have a genocide.
I'm simply saying that it's an obviously biased article that just buys from the very title because a lot of people dispute the idea that there was, in fact, what is properly called a
a genocide in Gaza.
Well, they probably refer to some primary sources in the sense that they are attributing opinions to the people who hold them.
But they tend to, by policy, use secondary sources, right?
So rather than
you know, directly pointing to a copy of a UN speech or whatever, wherever the opinion might have been, you know, published, they will talk about a news story in the New York Times or something like that.
So they prefer secondary sources because they are more carefully vetted, I suppose, than the original.
It's actually...
Um, it's very problematic, but we can read it here if you like.