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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 01:40:18 JST myrmepropagandist

   This is so similar to what happened to me when I started researching the "Race and Intelligence" article complex on the Wikipedia it's uncanny... only I got zero support and most of the errors I corrected were reverted. And I stopped editing after a year of that. Maybe things have changed and I'll try again.

   https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/

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     Lien Rag (lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 01:41:08 JST Lien Rag

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     @futurebird

     I recently read the Tulsa Massacre article and it seemed to claim that basically the Blacks were to blame for it.
     It was very carefully written so as not to claim exactly that but let the reader reach this conclusion by him/herself.
     I don't know enough about this part of history to be able to pinpoint where exactly the article manipulates the truth, but I'm quite convinced that "the Blacks did it to themselves" is not exactly what one is supposed to learn from the Tulsa Massacre.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 01:41:26 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Lien Rag

     @lienrag

     Editing race related articles on the wikipedia is like going to war. You need at least 3 or 4 experienced (having a long history of good contributions) editors. You need to have recent good contributions ideally. So, go edit ant or math articles for a bit. Make corrections. Write a new article on another topic. Then you move in together to make the changes.

     There will be reversions, and eventually arbitration. Always be polite and calm. It's a lot of work.

     Should it be? No.