What this means: for your right wing parents and friends, if you link them to wikipedia, even if they read it, they wont get it. Youtube iirc uses wikipedia for fact checking too, so even if they investigate weather breitbart is accurate is youtube fact checking, they wont understand that.

tldr; left leaning elitism is impenetrable

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/97923

Even as an adult, reading through wikipedia often feels like a punch to the brain because i’m not a thesaurus rex.

rightwinger lack of education source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/29/donald-trump-still-king-poorly-educated/ ‘What is not in dispute, though, is how deeply Mr. Trump resonated, particularly among White voters without four-year college degrees, and how much it upended the political playing field.’

Wikipedians are aware that the open online encyclopedia may be too difficult, and there is a discussion of its reading level at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reading_level. Much of this discussion took place over a decade ago, but the gist is that many contributors write at or for the college level. What appeals to me most is at the end of the page, where Wikipedians are discussing accessibility and what it means to be open to all. Here’s my screenshot (in case it gets edited later).