[WikiEN-l] Re: The integrity of Wikipedia
Delirium
delirium at rufus.d2g.com
Thu Feb 12 19:44:45 UTC 2004
Fred Bauder wrote:
>We don't present all main views or even the predominant view. We censor
>views we feel are incorrect and substitute euphamisms; so East Germany
>becomes a "socialist country", not a totalitarian Marxist-Leninist
>government imposed by fiat on the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany.
>
>
There's a lot of views you can have though.
One view that people hold is that East Germany is a country in which the
rights of the proletariat were protected against exploitation by the
imperialistic expansionism of the United States and its cronies, as
opposed to West Germany, where exploitation by the owners of the means
of production was allowed to run rampant.
This isn't a view I hold, but it's one that is held.
Are we going to say that it's wrong? I don't see how we can make that case.
-Mark
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