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Debate:Is Conservapedia representing a conservative POV or a Young Earth Creationist POV? (view source)
Revision as of 21:47, February 23, 2008
, 21:47, February 23, 2008→Conservative
==Conservative==
==Conservative==
Am I to understand that not all conservatives are Young Earth Creationists? --[[User:Cranky Joe|Cranky Joe]] 00:18, 21 February 2008 (EST)
Am I to understand that not all conservatives are Young Earth Creationists? --[[User:Cranky Joe|Cranky Joe]] 00:18, 21 February 2008 (EST)
::I should leave it alone, but it never hurts to put information out there.
::Anybody can jump onto a domain registrar's site and secure any domain they like. I wish there was some authority ehich could be appealed to through which "Conservapedia" could be forced to change their name, but that's not how it works. This site rigidly presents a narrow set of theological views which are often at odds with consevativism.
::I don't presume the authority to determine what sort of title would be appropriate for this wiki, but it is a shame that the choice domain name for a wiki which would actually present the constellation of political, historical and philosophical views which comprise conservative thought is rendered unavailible by this site.
::It's clear that the domain name, by which a tiny group of militantly solipsistic biblical literalists presume to misappropriate the mantle of conservativism for themselves and their narrow worldview, has been seized by conservativism's critis as an opportunity to indulge in ramming their pitchforks into strawmen with a howling vulgarity and volume.
::I've never seen Conservapedia cited by a single conservative blog, yet the stats show that Conservapedia is at least very popular with the left. A Google search of "conservapedia" returns 160,000 hits, 4,100 alone featuring the term "wingnut," and every one which is not a hit to Conservapedia itself is a hit to a leftwing site eager to accept and amplify Conservapedia's claim to represent conservativism.
::Conservapedia went online at the beginning of 2007. by March it was ranked way down at 1.8 millionth in Alexa. Then the left discovered it. By the end of the month, Conservapedia rose 1.2 million places to 600 thousandth. Conservapedia has been enormously successful as a target for derision and trolling. There are no fewer than two wikis and three blogs dedicated to "monitoring" and "countering" Conservapedia, which now stands at 46 thousandth after a spike caused, as far as I can tell, by a circulating leftosphere gag about the popularity of Conservapedia's entries on homosexuality.
::There is of course no aknowlegement in any of the leftosphere blogs that these rankings reflect their own activity on Conservapedia. Such is how Conservapedia came from being unintentional self-parody to constructed strawman.
::I could go further in discussing what this all says of the left - their contempt for pluralistic discourse and corresponding eagerness to construct their opponents in their absence as black fools in a manechean fantacy construct - but that's getting far from the particular issue at hand. "Conservapedia" is the issue; The name.
::I created this account and logged in the first, last and only previous occasion with good faith intention to participate in what might at least be a resource analogous to DKosfopedia. Instead I found much which raised questions for me. I raised those questions on the main talk page and got my answer in stark terms: this is an exclusively christian project, and if I didn't like it, I could start my own.
::That being the case, if this site isn't about conservativism at all, change your name, please.
16:47, 23 February 2008 (EST)
==Young Earth Creationist==
==Young Earth Creationist==