nimh wrote:Quote:You're My Obsession
Conservapedia's
list of its most-viewed pages would be hilarious if it weren't so disturbing:
Main Page [1,902,689]
Homosexuality [1,541,712]
Homosexuality and Hepatitis [516,721]
Homosexuality and Promiscuity [420,139]
Homosexuality and Parasites [387,872]
Homosexuality and Domestic Violence [350,963]
Gay Bowel Syndrome [342,650]
Homosexuality and Gonorrhea [331,066]
Homosexuality and Mental Health [276,531]
Homosexuality and Syphilis [265,017]
That's right: More than three-quarters as many people have been to Conservapedia's "Homosexuality" page as have been to the front page, and over a fifth as many have looked up "Homosexuality and Promiscuity." The question, I suppose, is to what extent these numbers may be driven by readers who are gay and perhaps closeted or uncertain about their sexuality, and to what extent they're simply a reflection of American conservatism's political obsessions. Regardless, they're pretty astounding.
There's a thread on this, and I went and looked at some of the articles.
I hope nobody uncertain of their sexuality is looking there because it's propaganda dressed up as information.
It's bizarre, that's for sure.
I think it's a bit unfair to label "conservatism" as a whole from this crap, though. Doesn't that site appeal to the real right wing nuts, rather than more mainstream folk????
