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Wikipedia Scrubbing All Mentions of Lena Dunham's False-Rape Accusations
Pundit Press ^ | 12/8/14 | Aurelius

Posted on 12/08/2014 2:06:04 PM PST by rightistight

Wikipedia editors are intentionally scrubbing any criticism regarding Lena Dunham and her false accusations of rape against "Barry" during her time in college.

The concerted effort can be seen in multiple places; the most obvious, is Dunham's page itself, which has no mention of the controversy. But it is not because some lesser-users did not try to include Dunham's actions.

In the "history" section of "Not That Kind of Girl's" page, there are attempts to mention the controversy. Higher-ups, however, scrubbed these changes and reverted the page to its previous form.

Even changes saying that some have her claims have been "called into question" have deleted with prejudice, as this example shows:

Lena Dunham

(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: lenadunham; wikipedia

1 posted on 12/08/2014 2:06:04 PM PST by rightistight
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To: rightistight

Methinks a wiki raid is in order.


2 posted on 12/08/2014 2:13:46 PM PST by Ophiucus
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To: rightistight

I almost have to admire Lena.

What other talentless slut no one ever heard of can suddenly make the news nonstop for weeks at a time?

Granted she is vilified from the Right AND the Left. But who cares? Its all about the publicity, right?

And this being the case - I nominate Lena Dunham as Time’s Person of the Year.

/barf


3 posted on 12/08/2014 2:17:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: rightistight

I am having a very difficult time reading or even making any sense of either version of the wiki posts. Any help out there?


4 posted on 12/08/2014 2:18:50 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: rightistight

The woman needs to be psyhcologically evaluated and perhaps committed for meanness of spirit and deed.


5 posted on 12/08/2014 2:19:04 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
The woman needs to be psyhcologically evaluated and perhaps committed for meanness of spirit and deed.

Or for just being a potato in general.


6 posted on 12/08/2014 2:24:24 PM PST by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
And this being the case - I nominate Lena Dunham as Time’s Person of the Year.

Why stop there? Nominate her for Maxim's Hottest Woman of the Year. I just vomited a bit into my mouth.
7 posted on 12/08/2014 2:25:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: rightistight

This is one of the reasons you can’t use wikipedia as a reference for anything vaguely controversial. For some things, it’s great. Earlier today I was looking up some information about private network addressing within IPv6. It had great info. I would never look to wikipedia for anything remotely political though.


8 posted on 12/08/2014 2:26:31 PM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: rightistight

Wikipedia recently scrubbed racial breakdown statistics of inmates at Rikers Island correctional facility in NYC, that were ... err... unflattering of people of color.


9 posted on 12/08/2014 2:54:14 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: zeugma

Agreed. The default position of Wikipedia in such cases is to carry the left’s narrative and consider anything to the contrary as “vandalism”.

A similar problem exists the Gamergate controversy, where truth (especially if it’s from Breitbart) has a very tough road to being accepted. Introducing narrative-shattering truth there immediately invites action to scrub it.


10 posted on 12/08/2014 3:56:41 PM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

S A N D R A F L U K E


11 posted on 12/08/2014 4:36:41 PM PST by moovova
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To: Ophiucus
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info-en-v@wikimedia.org

Share your thoughts with these wonderful neo-nazis ...

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12 posted on 12/08/2014 5:55:34 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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