Creepy pretend encyclopedia Rational Wiki has a user called Shouniaisha. He is an 'out' and proud pedophile.

An editor, possibly a genuine user with a sock, possibly a concern troll has pinged all the moderators and the senior dude Queex who is said to work in education. They also opened a COOP case. They said they archived it all, and I was able to find said archives using archive.is search.

The concerned editor put a notification on the pedos talk page, Queex's user page and their stupid chicken coop thing.

It doesnt really matter if this is a concern troll or not. What matters is that, if this COOP case is revdelled or whatever, RW is on record consorting with and normalizing a pedophile.

It is very VirPed. The pedo is saying he just has urges but the agonized little soul claims not to act on them. Down the line Salon normalization.

This story begins in Wikipedia's Gamergate Controversy article where Sitush edit warred over the hatting of his complaint about SPAs controlling the article, told ForbiddenRocky to fuck off, and begged to be blocked. Sitush, being from the Kool Kids Klub, got away with a warning and not the immediate indef that the average user would get from such behavior.

Mark Bernstein climbed the Reichstag in his Spider-Man costume to once again draw a crowd to his rooftop antics and then piss on everyone from the roof and tell them it's raining. His message was flawgical: Gamergaters must hate Jews because they call Mark Bernstein "Bernstein," Sitush must hate Jews because he complained about wikilawyering, therefore Sitush must be a Jew-hating Gamergater! Sitush yanked Bernstein to ANI by his exposed dick where Bernstein accused Sitush of extortion and NE Ent quickly closed the complaint with no action before it turned into a worse shitshow.

Bernstein's complaint attracted the attention of Sir Joseph, the autist formerly known as Yossiea who had successfully appealed his indef ban for calling a Hezbollah supporter a terrorist and is sensitive to accusations of antisemitism on the 'pedia. Shortly thereafter an IP who follows this sub and the Huma Abedin controversy (previously covered here and here) left a set of links on Sir Joseph's page about the New Israel Fund and its spokesman Ben Murane and its spokesman Ben Murane. The IP seems to want to draw attention to this Ben Murane guy, and I might know why.

The IP's links connect the New Israel Fund to a number of anti-Israel organizations -- +972, Adalah, Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem, J Street, Machsom Watch, Yesh Din -- which all follow the pattern of repeating Arab war propaganda against Israel, manufacturing excuses to support the jihad, refusing to accept any evidence in Israel's favor, and receiving favorable coverage in the US and European press despite being known fabricators. NGO Monitor and Discover The Networks would have more information. As for Ben Murane, his LinkedIn account describes him as a "fundraising professional" involved in "Major Gifts & Communications Strategy."

With the flood of recent stories about RationalWiki and the very strange behavior by board member David Gerard, I've started to look into them. RationalWiki's board of directors includes a Jacob Murane who had this to say upon his appointment as treasurer:

I have an Associates in Business (I will begin working on my Bachelors of Accounting this fall) and have a close adviser in fundraising in my brother, a professional fundraiser himself.

I do not have any evidence to confirm that Jacob Murane's brother in professional fundraising is Ben Murane. Really, I have nothing linking the two, but maybe the IP knows something that I don't.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Worst_Liberal_Movies#cite_note-Dan_Rather.27s_Day_of_Reckoning-87

Anti-American/Anti-Vietnam War propaganda that infamously accused General William Westmoreland of deliberately understating the force strength of the Vietcong during the Tet Offensive. This resulted in a libel suit made by Westmoreland against CBS that promptly went to court after an internal investigation was issued due to TV Guide finding damning evidence of similar journalistic malpractice that was practiced in the earlier documentary/propaganda The Selling of the Pentagon, which ultimately resulted in CBS losing its libel insurance, as well as the documentary unit being scrapped when Larry Tisch took over in 1987

https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Worst_Liberal_Movies#cite_note-Dan_Rather.27s_Day_of_Reckoning-87

It turns out the General dropped the case...

The allegations about editing were not borne out by the evidence and the ultimate questions at trial became whether the allegations against Westmoreland were true and whether CBS was entitled to believe the high-ranking military officers who made those allegations in their interviews and stuck by them at trial.

CBS defended the documentary as true and called the military officers in question as witnesses at trial. They testified both at deposition and at trial that their criticisms of Westmoreland had been fairly represented in the documentary and they stood by them. Major General Joseph McChristian, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence under Westmoreland, testified at trial that when he had presented new increased enemy strength estimates, Westmoreland had responded that sending these figures to Washington would "create a political bombshell" and would "embarrass my commander in chief [President Johnson]." [9] General McChristian testified that, in withholding these figures, Westmoreland, "in being loyal to the President, was disloyal to his country."[10]

After McChristian stepped down, CBS called another military intelligence officer, Col. Gains Hawkins, who had worked under McChristian and Westmoreland. Hawkins's testimony supported McChristian's; Hawkins reaffirmed his allegations in his CBS interviews and in the documentary.

On February 18, 1985, shortly after McChristian's testimony, with Col. Hawkins still on the stand, and with the five-month trial expected to go to the jury within days, Westmoreland agreed to dismiss the case without payment, retraction or apology from CBS.

Westmoreland declared "victory," but later conceded that his team's "jury watcher" had concluded he was likely to lose.[15] The New York Times reported that Westmoreland had "surrendered to the evidence that . . . he and some of his aides in Vietnam in 1967 manipulated the estimates of enemy strength, apparently for political effect." "At the end, he stood in imminent danger of having a jury confirm the essential truth of the CBS report. For, in court, as on the original program, the general could not get past the testimony of high-ranking former subordinates who confirmed his having colored some intelligence information."[16] One of the jurors, speaking to the press when the trial adjourned, stated "The evidence in favor of CBS was overwhelming." [17]

Wow! Great job Conservapedia! It seems "patriotism" is synomous with lying.

Truthers Dylan Avery and Korey Rowe blame America for 9/11. Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones worked as Executive Producer (and don't let his paleoconservative/libertarian views fool you into thinking it is in any way a conservative documentary)

No True Scotsman fallacy for the win!

A 2002 schlockumentary directed by and starring leftist propagandist Michael Moore. It is a pro-gun control film and distorts facts in favor of gun-grabbing. Also included a "Brief history of the USA" segment using animation mirroring that of South Park, that distorted historical facts to make it seem as though guns were implemented by racists, which actually led to the South Park libertarian creators to condemn him, enough to give Moore a cameo in Team America as a suicide bomber and make his death especially graphic.

Was he wrong though? How did he distort facts? At the very least gun right and racism do go hand in hand: https://newrepublic.com/article/154652/gun-culture-always-white-supremacy

Attempts to "humanize" followers of The Satanic Temple and literal satanism, specifically depicting them as they try to get their monuments to Satan on government property and push their evil ideology on children, all while vilifying Christian values and portraying Conservative activists like Jason Rapert, an Arkansas State Senator who successfully got a monument of the 10 Commandments erected in front of the Arkansas State Capitol building, as un-patriotic bigots.

Ignoring the establishment clause...

Great Recession of 2008 on Wall Street, unspecified deregulations, the Bush Administration, and so on. He whitewashes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's role and virtually eschews any mention of the Community Reinvestment Act. While advertised as nonpartisan, it contains various interviews with Democratic politicians but none with Republican politicians. Finally, Ferguson blames the financial system for corrupting American politics.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-bushs-quiet-role-in-financial-crisis-deserves-attention-now-1536761487

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_acceptance_movement

They even mention

Obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide.

but still, FAT = GOOD.

Recently, Gamaliel has been having difficulties on Wikipedia. How sad. Others have linked to the thread, here.

Gamaliel and Mark Bernstein believe that an evil, well organised GamerGate conspiracy is trying to take over Wikipedia and hound them. This is of course totally without foundation.

What is true however is that there is a positive, scholarly Reddit group called / r / TheGGGreatWork now with over a hundred members working to bring ethics and responsibility back to Wikipedia.

Events like this are a reminder that together we CAN make a difference. Please, if you care about Wikipedia come on down to the Great Work.

So Grant Shapps decided to weigh in on Twitter and share my article with his 84K plus followers - https://www.twitter.com/grantshapps/status/618380955334615040 Archive here - https://archive.is/XdAI6

This is useful and it would be great if we can get some momentum going on this to help keep pressure on them to block COI poster Mark Bernstein and the others. Jimbo Wales talk page is here ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales <---

I have been very concerned today. I put my article up here and very soon thereafter a lengthy and inaccurate, but glossing written (PR?) post appeared as well as a number of ... odd ... down votes. The issue the opposing posters seemed to misconstrue was that a Wikipedia administrator expressly said they were a 'self-identified' paedophile who had slept with multiple underage girls. The person (wrongly) conflated them with a different administrator who claimed to be 17.

In any event it is likely that spreading this will help us pressure Wikipedia.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Media_Matters_for_America

Despite trying to destroy the lives of conservatives for making controversial or vulgar comments, even if those comments were made many years prior, Media Matters has not made similar efforts against leftists who made extremely vulgar and bigoted comments.[33][34][35] Even the president of Media Matters made vulgar and bigoted comments as bad, if not worse, than the comments of those whose lives he had tried to destroy

For one thing, media matters expose them as liars, not simply being vulgar. https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/after-white-nationalist-troll-charged-election-interference-tucker-carlson-flatly

And your reports on those old blogs ignore context: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/28/40326045/media-matters-president-the-goal-isnt-to-bankrupt-fox-news-its-to-change-it

I looked at Carusone’s old blog, and while Tucker wasn’t lying, Carusone was very obviously kidding. The writing is an affectation, a voice, a parody of an ugly American. And yet, the hypocrisy, on both sides, is obvious, and I found myself siding, for maybe the first time, with a Fox News host over a progressive nonprofit. If Tucker Carlson’s old statements on the radio are problematic enough to make a big deal of a decade later, then what does this mean for everyone else?

Ignoring the fact that Tucker isn't a parody, but serious in his bigitory....