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bison-appreciation-club · 9 months

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'conservapedia' warning post!

Ik I already made a post like this but I decided to make a coherent version. Please reblog this version instead of the previous one so that people are aware of this website. Thanks :)

Until today I didn't know that this thing existed, but I was researching a frontiersman called Frank Mayer, and there isn't a Wikipedia article about him but there IS a 'Conservapedia' article about him. The logos and website names look similar enough for me to mistake Conservapedia for Wikipedia, and that's probably intentional.

'Conservapedia' is basically set out just like Wikipedia, only their logo looks like this

Despite what it says, it is not a trustworthy source of information. In fact, it includes lots of harmful misinformation. I decided to have a gander at what this website actually has in it, and what I found is both hilarious and sickening. However there is a hell of a lot of racism, genocide/slavery denial and pro-cop shit going down so I'll put it under a readmore.

If you don't want to read on, please reblog now to warn people about this site. In short, it's wildly inaccurate, uses inflammatory language to provoke and spark anger in readers, it spreads blatant misinformation, some of which could be actively harmful to those reading it, and it is ridiculously pumped full of every kind of prejudice and hate.

This is going to be super long probably but here goes. I decided to have a look at whether their claims of being 'trustworthy' are really... well... trustworthy. So, as my mutuals are probably aware, I'm fascinated by American history, and especially the frontier period, so I decided to see whether there was an article on American history. There wasn't. That was... odd. Especially as it appears that Conservapedia is an American site, what with the logo and everything. This seems to suggest some advanced stage of denial going on here. Another thing to add is that there is no article on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. I checked.

The article about slavery itself is... worrying. It blames 'Marxists' and 'Socialists' for slavery, and says that imperialism 'stopped slavery'. Yeah, after being the main perpetrators for three hundred years??

This is from their article about the Confederates. The underlined bit is the important bit. It says 'all the slaves were emancipated with no compensation to their owners'. The rest of the paragraph discussed how the Nasty North forced the poor uwu South to give up slavery, which led to the South losing a lot of their revenue. Racist, capitalist shit.

I then checked out their article on Colorado, because I know a lot about Colorado's history and wanted to see how much of it was, you know, actually discussed. This paragraph, about the BLM movement, leapt out at me particularly:

The anti-police punks, who outnumbered the pro-police side, attempted to overwhelm the rally and acted in their typically childish fashion to drown out and silence the pro-police message while also assaulting rallygoers and police officers [...]

This isn't just ignoring history, this is blatant propaganda and misinformation. Compare the use of inflammatory language and rhetoric like 'punks', 'childish', 'assaulting' etc against the more neutral tone of regular Wikipedia. If, like me, you thought that this was normal Wiki, you could easily believe this. I had to do a double take. This shit is bad. There's more, but if anything it's even worse.

And because the page on Colorado is the Hellhole o' Horrors that just keeps on giving, THIS pro life shit was right at the beginning of the page.

'The murder of infants'. Pls. Wtf. I have no words. Again, see the inflammatory language. This is not 'trustworthy' in the slightest. In fact, this is actively harmful.

As for actual history, there was zilch. Something about the colonial Spanish guy who named Colorado. That was it. Overall the section on Colorado's history comprised of a measly 167 words. On regular Wikipedia, the section about Colorado's history is 2,543 words. Notice the difference? The conservatives are obviously making omissions, and it's soon clear what they are. Where is Colorado's historic abortion laws? Where are the mass shootings? The Mexican-American war? The coal strikes? The Chicano Civil Rights movement? Where is Sand Creek? Nobody on Conservapedia is fessing up to Sand Creek.

So yeah, that made me angry. But wait, there's more. Following on from the lack of Sand Creek, I found myself thinking hm, maybe this genocide denial goes a bit deeper. So I tried to find an article on Native American history. Again I found nothing. The page on Native Americans was pitiful. Firstly, the writers seemed to have an aversion to the words 'Native American', instead using 'Indian', which I'm pretty sure is outdated/offensive (apologies for using any offensive terminology, I am quoting the article and this definitely does not reflect my views).

Ok, let's look at what the 'Native American' page has to say, shall we?

Ooh, boy, there's a lot to unpack here. Firstly, this is EVERYTHING I could find about Native American history. And it's about the Genesis story. Let me summarise for you. Basically, the screenshot is saying that 'creation scientists' find the Native Americans batshit crazy because they don't have any 'ties' to any other populations in terms of biblical proof. The Native population was 'established after the destruction of the Tower of Babel'. They're stating the Bible like it's a fact. I can confirm as someone who was once Christian that the Bible has to be taken with not a pinch but a bucketful of salt.

This is absolute shit. Firstly, it's saying that Native American myths and Bible stories bear some resemblance. This is possible. Different myths around the world have the same themes. However, just because Socrates, Confucius and the Buddha were all around at a similar time it doesn't mean that they were best pals and were on a WhatsApp groupchat together. It seems to me like Insecure White People (tm) are trying to forcibly fit other people into their worldview. Which is very narrow minded of them. And I'm white, but this feels pretty racist to me. Oh, and was there anything about the millions of native people killed since everyone's least favourite Chris rocked up? Nope. There wasn't.

So, to see whether they were denying EVERY genocide or just this one, I went to check the article on the Holocaust/Sho'ah. Bingo. Finally, a reasonable article. Great, they'd agreed that Nazis = bad, they were feeling sorry for the Jewish people and other victims of the Holocaust/Sho'ah.

And then they said it was all the fault of the socialists. Yeah. Blame everything on the socialists. At this point it's laughable - imagine saying that Hitler is a SOCIALIST?? Other than that, the page actually... wasn't bad?? Compared to other pages it was really long, it said that the Nazis were 'evil', and about how awful it was. Admittedly they did use what I believe is a slur to describe disabled people, but this is Conservapedia after all. Oh yes, and they blamed Hitlers 'animal rights' and 'environmentalism'. Right.

Other than the page about the Sho'ah, they don't mention any other genocide. ???? Why ?????? So yeah, in general they're all genocide deniers, which is fun.

So the point of this SUPER long post (sorry guys it got out of hand) is DON'T GO ON conservapedia. Avoid it like the plague; it spreads blatant misinformation, is wildly racist, ableist and homophobic, says that everyone is to blame for slavery OTHER than white people, it denies genocides, it uses extreme language to spark anger in readers and spouts pro-life shit. And that's just from the few pages I saw.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reblog this so that people are aware of this. I was absolutely horrified when I found and read it. Stay safe, everyone.

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very-uncorrect · 6 months

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Holy shit, I can't believe a Tory MP is racist, who would've guessed something like that would happen? Not me! (/s)

#tw tory #tw racism #tw racist #tw conservatives #the guardian #tw swearing #tw cursing #tw politics #uk #british #british politics #uk politics

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ihaventsleptinweekz · 10 months

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Have not watched the new cc episode yet but I am dying to know who gave David the snake on his bandanna . what is the context here. I see this flag where I live so fucking often (republican hellscape) that I saw this screenshot and instantly took 10 points of psychic damage . Someone explain plz

#tw conservatives #I guess??? I know it has other meanings but where I live it's like. Very not good #camp camp

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its-spooky-bitch · 10 months

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🤮 fucking yikes! Nick Groff is literally interacting with people who use antisemitic dog whistles and promoting a movie made by an Evangelical Christian Q*non person.

#jfc #he has liked comments that say save our children which is a dog whistle #this movie blames child trafficking on Mexican cartels and democrats when most traffickers victims are trafficked by their families or fr #fuck off nick #I have issues with Zak but this genuinely disgusts and disturbed me #tw human trafficking #tw conspiracy theories #tw conservatives

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glossytoothpick · 1 month

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My mother put on that terrible ass Ben Shapiro rap and told me with a straight face that she thinks me, her lesbian daughter, would unironically like the song

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gemandthescotts · 1 year

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Don't really talk about serious things often, but genuinely childbirth is one of the hardest things I have ever gone through and less than a month later the baby died. I knew that this was going to happen, the doctors told me he wouldn't most likely even make it out of childbirth and due to my grandparents anti abortion bullshit I had to go through the worst experience imaginable.

Please don't ban abortions in the United States. Please don't pressure family into not getting one. Please don't send death threats to people who get them.

#aris speaks #trigger warning #tw #tw politics #tw abortion #tw conservatives #pro choice #i am not american but i know the pain of not getting an abortion when you need it and i feel like people need to understand

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ashclouds366 · 5 months

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conservative christian parents like TAKE BACK THE RAINBOW! THE GAYS CAN'T TAKE EVERYTHING FROM US!! then tell you you can't put color in your hair because that's gay and what would the five people at church think

#conservative christians #tw conservatives #tw christianity #i didn't know that was a think until just now #ig some people are blocking the christianity tag huh #fair enough guys #bobas posts

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prinx-quail · 1 year

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Little bit of a rant but i gotta get it out of my head

As someone who is both trans and pan, i get a LOT of people telling me that before I "decide" to be these things, I should wait until I'm twenty five (i am already a legal adult) because the "decision" is too life changing to make before my brain is fully developed.

If this is the case, here are some other things people should wait until 25 for. They can be potentially life changing, after all:

- joining any religion

- dating and marriage

- having kids

- having sex

- having a job

- choosing a career

- smoking and/or drinking

-owning a license to drive any vehicle

- choosing a political party

- going to college

- moving out of any home

- owning any animal

-taking vital medication

Of course, no one should have to wait until twenty five for ANY of these things, nor should they be disallowed from any affirming activity such as taking testosterone or estrogen after the age of eighteen (in america). By all means, they are legal adults from that point on, and their business should be left the FUCK alone.

#tw politics #tw transphobes #tw homophobia #leave people the fuck alone #i am literally not doing anything wrong #just want to live my life why do i gotta deal with this shit #tw conservatives #let gay people chill #let trans people chill #We are vibing just leave us alone

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ragingstillness · 6 months

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My coworkers have lost their minds, things they said and seem to actually believe:

That Michelle Obama is a trans woman (not that they were as polite as I’m being about it) and is actually Barack’s best friend from high school (ngl if this was true it would be kind of badass)

That the Obama’s are still running the country through Biden

That the cost of living and lack of homes is the fault of the liberals

That various shootings from the war in the Middle East were faked

That Biden is going to force us all to switch to electric cars

That Biden is unqualified to be president (of all the critiques of his presidency I’ve heard this is new and insanely hypocritical considering the great moldy orange’s credentials are non-existent)

That the last election was rigged

That Biden only wants the rich to have cars and that a lot of people are dishonest in the world now and it’s the rich who are running everything (naïveté about the political leanings of the rich and dog whistles of anti-semitism it’s almost impressive)

Seriously yikes

I mean, I can tolerate it and just keep my mouth shut but the whiplash from watching ofmd the night before and experiencing pure queer joy to this is staggering

#me #tw conservatives

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thereis-noplan · 6 months

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i find it so funny when people say shit like "lgb without the t" or call themselves "gay conservatives," because. trans people are your COUSINS. why are you trying to appeal to the group of people that wants you fucking dead

#trans #tw transphobia #tw conservatives

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bison-appreciation-club · 3 months

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conservatives (my mother) love to say stuff like you can't believe anyone and then they believe some random youtube video by some random conspiracy theorist

#IM SORRY SHES SAYING STUFF LIKE DOCTORS ARE KILLING WHITE PPL TO MAKE ROOM #FOR GAY PPL AND POC AND LIKE #SHE GOT ALL THIS FROM ONE YOUTUBE SHORT #dee rambles #tw conservatives #tw conspiracy theory

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thecanadianweeb · 1 year

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oh and also i was forced to hide my true self because it was not socially appropriate for me to talk about things i liked, and my interests were against gender norms.

i really liked dinosaurs and animals that were considered boy-ish and even cars! (not anymore, it’s a retired one) but society told me to focus on stereotypical girl-ish things like dolls and housework.

honestly i don’t mind the appeal in housework because i did eventually get a hyperfix on it, but it ended.

But idc anymore, the only gender norms that they are belongs to the conservative mfs who keep ruining my life and my friend’s ones too!

so tbh the straights and neutotypicals really aren’t okay.

#tw ableism #childhood trauma #gender norms #tw conservatives #actually autistic

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writerofweird · 9 months

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This post made me want to try to sing one of my poems to the tune of O Little Town of Bethlehem (UK version), and so I chose The Happy Christian as I felt it would be most appropriate.

Lyrics are below:

This poem contains references to conservative Christianity, homophobia and transphobia.

There’s a very happy Christian, Who is always grinning, He claims he will bring salvation, To everyone who’s sinning,

When you see him, he’ll clap his hands, And sings a song that will not end, Until he feels he has convinced you, That Jesus is your friend,

That nothing else in this world matters, That you should hear him well, For if you do not heed his words, Then you belong in Hell,

He’ll also sing and claps his hands, About who he says should be gone, Anyone who’s gay or trans, He says don’t belong,

In the world God created, So as he laughs and beams, He’ll demand those he hates should die, And giggles at the screams,

This is a very happy Christian, Who sings of Heaven’s gates, But there’s nothing that makes him happier, Than bigotry and hate.

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cormancatacombs · 2 years

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No I’m not at all salty about the kind of guy who claims to ‘not be into politics’ but then gets awfully defensive when you criticize (or in their words, ‘try to cancel’) their favs for their conservative &/or transphobic bullshit

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torchickentacos · 1 year

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Getting some CRAZY ASS ADS lately?????

#tw conservatives #????? how do I tag this lmao #tw gun #tw republicans #???

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angstydiaz · 1 year

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This won't make sense to literally anyone who follows me cause y'all aren't Irish but

FUCK FIANNA FAIL

And fuck Fianna Gael.

Cunts.

That is all.

Genuinely can't stand the fact we had a td "apologise if people find what he said offensive" when he said that extending the eviction ban was like "making sweets free for children*

And that's just the fucking tip of the long ass iceberg of awful shit they've done.

And as someone who grew up in a not good financial situation the way they have always acted is god fucking awful. Not to mention their views on other matters.

#for my followers context these are irish political parties. these two are basically the same fucking thing #fianna fail #fianna gael #ireland #irish #irish politics #eviction ban #tw conservatives

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