Henry Imler February 26th, 2007

For today’s foolishness of the day (fotd) Kyle point us to Conservipedia. It is a wiki designed to counter the menacing liberal bias on Wikipedia. Only thing is, it makes Conservatives look foolish half the time.

To these “conservatives,” Wikipedia is biased down to their dating system. Take a look at the number-one item on their Examples of Bias in Wikipedia page.

1) Wikipedia allows the use of B.C.E. instead of B.C.
and C.E. instead of A.D. The dates are based on the birth of Jesus, so
why pretend otherwise? Conservapedia is Christian-friendly and exposes
the CE deception.

The deception? Check out the Wikipedia entry on the Common Era.
They make no bones about the name change even though there are no date
shifts. Imagine you are a Christian living in a world where the dating
system was named after Muhammad or Darwin. Wouldn’t you rather use a
nonreligious dating system?

Kyle looks at a few other of their grievances.

Conservipedia - FCBC; anyone else need not apply.

I guess I like the idea in general, of having a repository of
conservative thought where people can get a perspective on conservative
thought. It it just sometimes embarrassing as a quasi-conservative
person.

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