I'm using this image from Heart Land, but just heard about them.
Mayer's email appeal appears below.
Dear Katherine
A little awkward for me too. Wikipedia is at times very valuable but consistently spins its entries to the Left. I've heard wiki say it does not require this. Possibly true, since academia and corporations (as well as MSM, Hollywood ...) are almost totally controlled by the Globalist Multi-Marxist Left, conveniently, wiki need not order experts to carry out this unethical behavior.
I've heard that a lot of retired academics work on your entries. Yes, I can just imagine them relishing being able to weave their ideology into their entries, as they did into their classroom lectures. Many on the Left probably consider Multi-Marxism as simply the modern enlightened way of thinking, rather than bias.
I know of what I speak, having been a 'Sixties liberal.' However, I finally grew up and saw that this ideology is hypocritical, contradictory and utopian--and is destined to crash and burn. For example, most of these people favor, or fall silent on, US open borders policies, yet think of themselves as committed 'environmentalists,' at the same time that open borders will mean an infinite redoubling of US population numbers = bye-bye environment.
I appreciate the good work that wiki does. If only it would make a major effort at unbiased honesty.
Thank you for your message,
tma
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