Wikipedia bias: slave states colored red in history articles

[renard_ruse]

"Red states," get it. Because we all know that the Republicans want blacks to be slaves. :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise

 

[RoryN]

LOL!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

 

[KingOrfeo]

"Red states," get it. Because we all know that the Republicans want blacks to be slaves. :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise

It's Wikipedia, you know; you can take up this sort of complaint on the article's Talk page, and maybe persuade the editors to change the colors. ('Twould be fun to watch, anyway . . .)

 

[blobfish]

If you make a suitable, freely licensed replacement, I'll have it changed for you.

 

[renard_ruse]

It's Wikipedia, you know; you can take up this sort of complaint on the article's Talk page.

Yes, I may just do that. I'm surprised nobody else has yet.

 

[doctor_insanus]

"Red states," get it. Because we all know that the Conservatives want blacks to be slaves. :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise

Fixed. Problem solved.

You're welcome.

 

[renard_ruse]

Fixed. Problem solved.

You're welcome.

Looks the same to me.

 

[blobfish]

Looks the same to me.

He changed your post.

 

[renard_ruse]

He changed your post.

Oh, ok, he came out of the closet as a moron. I didn't see that.

 

[RoryN]

It figures that the racist thread starter would obsess over something like this.

 

[renard_ruse]

It figures that the [inaccurately alleged] "racist" thread starter would obsess over something like this.

It figures that the retarded poster who wrote the above sentence would obsess over this thread.

 

[RoryN]

It figures that the retarded poster who wrote the above sentence would obsess over this thread.

Obsess?

Wishful thinking, racist.

 

[renard_ruse]

Obsess?

Wishful thinking, racist.

I'm not a "racist." Never have been, never will be.

However, I'm curious about your obsession with racists? Why is it such a big deal to you if someone were. Does it give you license to physically attack them? Seems like an odd obsession.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Wikipedia bias: slave states colored red in history articles

Come to think of it, that would be a fair criticism, as American slaves were not red.

At least, not on the outside.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I'm not a "racist." Never have been, never will be.

But, OTOH, you are a "liar." Always have been, always will be.

 

[Sam37]

Lol.

Too bad modern history refutes that claim. The Great Society made the poor slaves to the nation rather than the plantation owners. Even worse, it has created generations suffering from learned helplessness.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Lol.

Too bad modern history refutes that claim. The Great Society made the poor slaves to the nation rather than the plantation owners. Even worse, it has created generations suffering from learned helplessness.

The "War on Poverty" failed, indeed, but only because the Vietnam War drained the funding. But for the Vietnam War, LBJ, for all his slimy Texan corruption, would fairly and justly rank as the very greatest American POTUS since FDR. (As it stands, Obama does.) It's a Texas thing -- "Texas thing" having both worthless-extractive and valuable-progressive-technological sides. You can and should and shall read the whole fascinating and schizophrenic story here.

 

[RoryN]

I'm not a "racist." Never have been, never will be.

However, I'm curious about your obsession with racists? Why is it such a big deal to you if someone were.

Racists always ask this.

 

[blobfish]

The "War on Poverty" failed, indeed, but only because the Vietnam War drained the funding. But for the Vietnam War, LBJ, for all his slimy Texan corruption, would fairly and justly rank as the very greatest American POTUS since FDR. (As it stands, Obama does.) It's a Texas thing -- "Texas thing" having both worthless-extractive and valuable-progressive-technological sides. You can and should and shall read the whole fascinating and schizophrenic story here.

The greatest since FDR at what? Consolidating power into the hands of Washington D.C. bureaucrats and stripping citizens of rights under the guise of improving the economy? In my opinion, Roosevelt is the worst president in history. He should be seen for what he was: America's answer to Adolf Hitler.

 

[KingOrfeo]

In my opinion, Roosevelt is the worst president in history

No doubt, but that would make you, not Roosevelt, the worthless piece of shit. And there was no "guise" of improving the economy, the New Deal actually did; as proof, it included/created many things no sane American would want to be without, such as Social Security.

 

[blobfish]

No doubt, but that would make you, not Roosevelt, the worthless piece of shit.

I guess Roosevelt was alright if you hate Japanese people.

You know, the ones he illegally interned based solely on their race.

 

[blobfish]

No doubt, but that would make you, not Roosevelt, the worthless piece of shit. And there was no "guise" of improving the economy, the New Deal actually did; as proof, it included/created many things no sane American would want to be without, such as Social Security.

Yeah, and Hitler created the autobahn.

No one is saying that everything he did was bad, but he used the depression to increase his power, which is all he was really interested in. It's no coincidence that he was the only president to serve more than two terms.

 

[Dazzle1]

"Red states," get it. Because we all know that the Republicans want blacks to be slaves. :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise

We are talking about a pc group

Example you can't call Hezbollah or Hamas Terrorists
You can dispure Al Gore's environmental credentials

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Christmas I watched an old tv series presented by egyptologist, John Romer. The subject was Exodus and the Jews flight from Egypt.

Romer detailed how obsessive-compulsive Egyptians were about documentation, yet there is no record of the exodus. Nothing. The reign of Ramses II is thoroughly recorded except for the exodus and the parting of the Rea Sea etc. So Romer concluded that the exodus is bullshit or it was so banal it ranked lower than news about dog bites man.

That is, facts have a life of their own, and they stubbornly remain inspite of the spin.

 

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