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Wikipediagate



Wikipedia is a free online-lexicon which is based on an idea by Jimmy Wales, where the readers themselves contribute with articles about subjects of which they have insight or interest for. The thought is that the inhabitants of the world themselves can work as a teaching resource for each other. In theory this is a splendid thought – and Wikipedia has been successful, and is working as planned – in some areas.

But all good things have a dark side – also Wikipedia. The morbide side to the Wikipedia concept was clearly demonstrated this Spring when the infamous AKP-owner (Worker's Communist Party) and supporter of Røde Khmer, Trond Øgrim showed up as spokesperson for Wikipedia during a lecture by Wikipedias inventor, Jimmy Wales, held in Bergen. According to Øgrim himself, he became a writer, and later moderator, for Wikipedia as a result of a wish to defend his friend, the beforementioned Tor Bach, after a less flattering article about him (Tor Bach) popped up on Wikipedia.
 

«Great leader Mao»

-Tron Øgrim and Pål Steigan shakes the hand of the master of genocide, Mao
 

For those who have followed Trond Øgrim's activities for a lifetime, the following events were easy to predict. Few months after Øgrim appoints himself to Wikipedia magnitude in Norway, a series of articles about the great men of communism appear on the front page of Norwegian Wikipedia (screenshot on the left). This week the topic is the world's biggest murderer – and Øgrim's ideological guiding star – Mao Tse Tung. On Norwegian Wikipedia we can read the objective hero's-tale:

«Mao has the honor of creating a (nearly) united China without foreign influence».

The Wikipedia article goes on praising Mao;

«Mao is sometimes referred to as the great four: great teacher, great leader, great general, great helmsman (...) Mao is still very popular in China. One remembers that under his leadership, there was laid to grounds a series of public welfare measures, amongst others – free school, free health service, guarantee of work. Poverty went down, the widespread analphabetism was heavily reduced in short time and the average age rose. A large part of the appreciation that the Chinese have to Mao (...)»

Mao's well directed famine that took the lives of tens of millions of Chinese is explained as famine caused nearly forceful but necessary confiscation of the Chinese farmers` harvests.
 

Classification of Genocide

For those who know their Chinese history, this is like reading an article about Adolf Hitler's creative immigration politics in Poland, his brilliant employment politics and about how the famine that reigned in the Weimar republic disappeared in the first months after Hitler receiving power, and at the same time as the art and the artists got the best circumstances than any country any time. Still, Wikipedia writes about Hitler thus:
«comitted a systematic discrimination and later persecution of the Jews that cost around six million European Jews their lives in holocaust».

-Trond Øgrim. Norway's most rigid defender of "Great Leader Mao" and active revisionist.

While Mao's genocide nearly was a great man's neccessary action, Hitler's crimes were comitted by none more than a villain. This despite the fact that Mao killed about 10 times as many people.

The fact that Trond Øgrim finds 58 million dead Chinese (who aren't even mentioned in Wikipedia's text about Mao) far less problematic than 6 million dead Jews is not surprising and reflects only his deranged view on humanity. To normal people without political social dysfunction, genocide is an objectionable action, independent of numbers or how «neccessary» or «practical» the genocide was carried out.

That Wikipedia's pseudo official standpoint now contains a revisionistic view on Chinese history make up more than an academic problem in that Wikipedia in its alliance with Øgrim and his murderers becomes a worthless encyclopedia.

For who would have faith in an encyclopedia about European history written by Vidkun Quisling?