• 1Malayali@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 days ago

    I think you may have misunderstood point of that image.

    It not on the sources being biased(there are no unbiased sources), but noting the easily notable bias in the Wikipedia source selection, the preference for media funded by pro-capitalist regimes.

    Do you see an issue in noting how Wikipedia has this bias, and going against the notion by some that it is unbiased or neutral?

    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yes, because the “easily-notable bias” is just a result of discussions done at different times to different evidence, and claiming bias is an overgeneralization.

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        3 days ago

        Bias just means that you have a worldview, which everyone has whether they acknowledge it or not simply by living and existing in the real world.

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                groups usually cancel bias

                Lmao, so we’re just saying shit now, alright. Famously unbiased:

                • The police
                • Lynch mobs
                • Academic institutions
                • Think tanks
                • The KKK
                • The Clergy
                • A group of children

                I think you struggle to understand what the word “bias” means. It seems like it just short-circuits in your brain to “bad”. A group typically enforce the bias inherent to it.

                It requires actively being aware of ones’ bias to counteract it, which is one of many reasons why Wikipedias presentation as a “neutral” source of knowledge is an issue. Because it makes doofuses like you trust it like gospel and react like fanatics to the heresy that maybe the website founded by a zionist, with a longtime issue with power-users (not to mention the infiltration of Nazis that gets brought up once in a while in a feelgood story about someone taking them on), a rule against being critical of "approved sources investegation making use of primary sources, an arbitrary approach as to how trustworthy a source is (the main judgement of which seems to be “do they reinforce state dept. talking points?”); well, it might have some issues.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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                3 days ago

                Groups do not cancel bias. Wikipedia is overwhelmingly western, which becomes a western bias. Groups reinforce bias.