"reading #wikipedia #articles about #history will expose you to the #biases of #guys with #deranged and #hyperspecific #political positions you couldn't even imagine"

"every wikipedia article about like #byzantine grain exports in 456 is #propaganda written by a guy who has inexplicably made it his life's #mission to rehabilitate the image of a random general who was poisoned by his horse at age 30 and every article about #wwii is written by a guy who #fantasizes about being part of an #esoteric #eastern #european #nazi #paramilitary group and owns a shelf of #books called like The Honor Of The #Wermacht And Their Honor and thinks that the problem with modern #warfare is that they need to make the tanks more #racist"

"#history/ #geopolitics article on wikipedia is generally a battleground between serious #historians and guys like that, but this is esp true for U.S.'s Official Enemies. I've since given up on this, but any article about the #DPRK is just 20 editors that are all convinced that we need to come together as a #global #community to glass the entire northern half of the #Korean peninsula reverting and shouting down any efforts at actual historians trying to at least be semi-sensible about the #country."

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