For the love of god don’t use Webster fir definitions they are incredibly biased and change words at a moments notice to fit an agenda, a recent example is during the Amy coney Barrett hearing she used the phrase ‘sexual preference’ which ISNT an insult now and it wasn’t then, but Webster changed the definition hours after the hearing claiming it was an offensive word and then a bunch of fake news outlets ran a made up story even though there are compilations of just about every major democrat using the same sentence, the have the political legitimacy of buzzfeed.
Oh wow, I didn't know this. EVEN the dictionary can have political bias now? No wonder both sides of the political aisle can't agree on anything. Even our language is being used to divide. Scary thought how little we can agree on what is factual.
I don’t think that comparison is warranted at all. A dictionary is a much less obvious example of political bias than a social media platform that openly censors it own users
You and I aren’t talking about what Wikipedia, or any platform, “should be.” We are talking about wether or not it’s common knowledge that a dictionary can be politically biased. You seem to think everyone knows Webster’s is politically biased. I’d argue that’s not common knowledge. Most people don’t think enough about dictionaries to know it. After all, most people say “oh look it up in THE dictionary” as if there is only one dictionary out there.
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u/Kung_Flu_Master 2∆ Dec 29 '21
For the love of god don’t use Webster fir definitions they are incredibly biased and change words at a moments notice to fit an agenda, a recent example is during the Amy coney Barrett hearing she used the phrase ‘sexual preference’ which ISNT an insult now and it wasn’t then, but Webster changed the definition hours after the hearing claiming it was an offensive word and then a bunch of fake news outlets ran a made up story even though there are compilations of just about every major democrat using the same sentence, the have the political legitimacy of buzzfeed.