[WikiEN-l] Anti-intellectualism

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/11/2008 8:17:02 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
snowspinner at gmail.com writes:

Another  big part is that our policies are shaped heavily by  
who showed up in  the early days of Wikipedia, and that means that they  
are shaped  heavily by a techno-libertarian philosophy that has been,   
historically, very hostile to postmodernism, and thus, by extension,   
very hostile to humanities scholarship. It is the case, frankly,  that  
Wikipedia, on a policy level, has a systemic bias against  the  
humanities.>>


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I think yes and no and maybe and also I refuse to answer but only in a  
post-modernist way.
 
But maybe you could give a concrete example of where you think there is  bias 
against the humanities.  I think that some of the people who shaped  the 
early policies were actually involved in the soft sciences.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
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