Metapedia

{{bronze}}[[File:Metapedia.png|165px|right|thumb|Alternative as in [[Alt-right|something]]]]{{Nazism}}{{hatnote|Metapedia should not be confused with the Wikimedia [[Meta-Wiki]], which is not racist, just boring. Or with'' {{wpl|Matapédia, Quebec|''Matapédia''|,}} ''which is mostly not racist, and is also boring. Or with ''Meta'', the re-branded corporate name for [[Facebook]], which supports its racism-spouting users with far more advertisements and creepy [[Orwellian]] tracking.}}

{{cquote|They obviously waited for me to show up before announcing this.|||[[Mike Godwin]]<ref>[http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/07/24/the-internet-is-now-a-series-of-endings/ The Internet is now a series of endings]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Let's say you are a 13-year-old middle school student trying to write a paper on, let's say, Armenia. So you Google and stumble across Metapedia, where you find a concise, straightforward little summary without even a hint of bigotry. Then you follow the link to Armenian Genocide, and skim right over the passing reference to "Negress Condaleeza Rice." You paste that passage right into Microsoft Word and declare your homework finished. Meetings with school officials ensue. Social workers show up at your house. Dad is shouting, Mom is crying. Thanks, Internet Nazis!|||[[Cracked]]<ref>[http://www.cracked.com/article_17341_5-terrifying-bastardizations-wikipedia-model.html 5 Terrifying Bastardizations of the Wikipedia Model] ([[Conservapedia]] and [[Encyclopædia Dramatica]] are also on the list.)</ref>}}
'''Metapedia''' is a [[Metapedia#Admins|barely active]]<ref>[https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/newusers Registration log] indicates only three account creations in 2017, nineteen in 2018, two in 2019, zero in 2020, and fourteen so far in 2021, which means only 38 new uses throughout nearly five years.</ref> wiki which describes itself as "an electronic encyclopedia about [[culture]], [[art]], [[science]], [[philosophy]] and [[politics]]."  In [[reality]], however, Metapedia is little more than thinly-veiled [[white nationalist]] and [[neo-Nazi]] [[propaganda]], with a generous helping of [[Holocaust denial]].  The site is awash in [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] [[conspiracy theory]]. A key trope is blaming the [[Jews]] for undermining the West via [[cultural Marxism]].

== History ==
Metapedia has its origins with the founders of the [[far-right]] Swedish web community Nordisk.nu. In 2006.<ref>[http://sv.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Bidrag/MediaWiki_default User contributions for MediaWiki default]</ref> the original Swedish Metapedia was created by Anders Lagerström, from Linköping, [[Sweden]]. Lagerström is a [[neo-Nazi]] activist who has been convicted for violent offenses, including assaulting a [[police]] officer:

{{quotebox|Anders Lagerström has long been involved in extreme right-wing organizations. In 2000, he was sentenced for having sprayed tear gas in the face of a police officer. In 2002 he started the Nordic publishing house, which specializes in issuing and selling Nazi literature and white power music. Lagerström is also a prominent figure in the Nordic Association. The Nazi organization wants it to form a 'Nordic nation'. On the organization's website it says the following about how this imaginary nation should look like: 'It means a society populated by a people and a government and the media are completely under Nordic control.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150923222655/http://www.corren.se/nyheter/nazist-anhallen-for-grovt-ran-4146657.aspx "Nazist anhållen för grovt rån"]. ''Corren.se''. 08-02-21.</ref>}}

In 2007, [[Hungary|Hungarian]] and [[English]] Metapedia wiki sites appeared<ref>[http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/MediaWiki_default User contributions for MediaWiki default]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150412224546/http://hu.metapedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k%C3%B6zrem%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9sei/MediaWiki_default User contributions for MediaWiki default]</ref>. In 2008, a Croatian version of Metapedia was started<ref>[http://hr.metapedia.org/wiki/Posebno:Doprinosi/MediaWiki_default Doprinosi suradnika za MediaWiki default]</ref><ref>[http://hr.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Glavna_stranica&action=historysubmit&diff=24&oldid=2 Glavna stranica: Usporedba među inačicama od 12. svibnja 2008. u 00:49 i 12. svibnja 2008. u 08:35]</ref>. Metapedia has since expanded to 16 [[language]] versions.

===Rightpedia===
{{See also|Rightpedia}}

There was a dispute between admins on Metapedia in 2013 and 2014 about the direction of the website and its content. One admin ("Atlantid") left after arguing Metapedia should abandon [[white nationalism]], [[racialism]] and [[Holocaust denial]] for right-wing [[populism]], others however argued Metapedia should turn more antisemitic and become openly [[neo-Nazi]]. This led to several Metapedia admins ("[[Michael Coombs|Mikemikev]]", "Hu1" and "Wyatt Man") creating [[Rightpedia]], a more extreme version of Metapedia. Both moderate and extreme factions ended up being banned/expelled from Metapedia and the current admin "Upplysning" maintains a ''status-quo'' of the old Metapedia content: still promoting white nationalism and [[Holocaust denial]], albeit in a less crude way than Rightpedia does. Since 2015, [[Rightpedia]] and Metapedia have written articles attacking each other.<ref>[http://archive.ph/76VVy Metapedia's entry on Rightpedia]</ref><ref>[http://archive.ph/iYKUt Rightpedia's entry on Metapedia]</ref> However, Metapedia criticized Rightpedia [[Stopped clock|for legitimate reasons]], including promoting the [[Moon hoax|moon hoax]] and [[Chemtrails]] conspiracy theories<ref>https://archive.ph/CDuxv</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/rRtzM</ref> and claiming that Blacks are more closely related to apes than to other humans.<ref>https://archive.ph/yEAU8</ref>

== Financing ==
Metapedia occasionally runs public fundraisers. In 2012, [[Nick Griffin]] donated 50 euros.<ref>[http://archive.ph/pKLUi Metapedia Fundraiser: Contributions] (screenshot)</ref>

==Admins==
As of 2019, the main English Metapedia has only 3 regular editors who are admins:

* '''Upplysning''': a Swedish [[Holocaust denier]], whose edits are mostly on Holocaust related entries.
* '''NatAll75''': a former member of the [[white nationalist]] National Alliance.
* '''Matt58''': (formerly Greg Frost, Cicero): [[Gregory_Lauder-Frost#Metapedia|Gregory Lauder-Frost]]

==Content==

Much content is copied from [[Wikipedia]] under the [[GFDL]] and then edited to remove any critical POV on sensitive topics including: [[Nazi]] and [[fascist]] politics and [[history]]; [[World War II]] history (especially Nazi military tactics and equipment); and individuals and concepts specific to the political far-right. Hilariously, it refers to articles largely copied from Wikipedia as "articles in need of neutralization".  The articles' perspectives on [[science]] and [[history]] — for example, their explanation of [[Holocaust denial]] — are twisted in order to bolster their ridiculous premises; the writing on topics related to [[racialism]] are mostly also copy-pastes.

===Pan-Europeanism===

Metapedia promotes [[white nationalism]] in a pan-European sense, rather than individual ethno-cultural nationalisms by country (i.e. [[Alt-right glossary#Civic nationalism|civic nationalism]]). This has led to some previous disputes on on the site, as "Upplysning" seems to be hostile to [[Brexit]] (a bit like [[Richard Spencer]]) and has also criticized past editors for making anti-Slavic statements. It is a well known fact the Nazis didn't like Slavs{{nofact}}, but "Upplysning" argues this is [[Bolshevik]] propaganda.

"Upplysning" was also troubled by Metapedia's article on the [[British National Party]], in which it was mentioned that the BNP opposes mass immigration to the UK from Eastern Europe, such as Poland. He then re-wrote the whole article, removing this detail in the process.

Finally, instead of discussing culture in terms of nationality, like "French" or "German", Metapedia only promotes a singular "[[Europe]]an people and culture" as well as a "white European race".<ref>[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk%3AMetapedia&diff=622515&oldid=615884 Talk page comment] by a Metapedia apologist.</ref>

===Racialism===
{{see also|Racialism}}

The Metapedia entries on [[racialism]] written by "Upplysning" consist of repeating PRATTS ([[point refuted a thousand times|points refuted a thousand times]]), spamming "[[Racialism#.22Lewontin.27s_fallacy.22|Lewontin's fallacy]]" over and over, while copy-pasting large chunks of text from the book ''The Nature of Race''; the book was published in a [[pseudo-journal]], externally reviewed by a white nationalist, [[Kevin MacDonald]]. In other words it's not science, but shoddy politics. Amusingly though "Upplysning" accuses anti-racialists as being politically motivated or [[Marxists]].

===Jews, Holocaust and antisemitism===

Metapedia formerly posted a yellow Star of David tag next to anyone of Jewish heritage (reminiscent of the [[one-drop rule]], this includes people who had Jewish ancestors but were not themselves fully or religiously Jewish, such as [[Vladimir Lenin]]<ref>[[:File:Lenincap.PNG|"Vladimir Lenin" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>).One person who notably ''isn't'' marked in this manner, however, is [[Jesus Christ]], and his nationality is listed only as "[[Roman]] citizen".<ref>[[:File:Jesuscap.PNG|"Jesus Christ" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref> [[Christian Identity|Hmm]]... The stars have since been removed (although they are left up on [[Rightpedia]]), but the same antisemitic content remains on Metapedia pages such as wacky conspiracy theories regarding Zionists, an obsession with Jews being behind cultural Marxism, and support for Holocaust revisionism. Although "Upplysning" attempts to portray himself as more reasonable than the overt [[Neo-Nazi]] stance of Rightpedia, his edits and sources show he's in the same boat; e.g. the sort of odious and [[crank]] literature he references on the Holocaust entry includes former [[KKK]] leader [[David Duke]], and the ''[[Institute for Historical Review]]''.

===Islam===

There was once a page on Metapedia dedicated to "[[Reactionary]] defences of Islam", which "refers to attempts to defend the religion of Islam as a viable option for ethnic Europeans, following the degeneration of Christianity into liberalism and the unconvincing nature of attempts at reviving [[paganism]]".<ref>"Reactionary defences of Islam", [https://archive.ph/Uz7eG archived] at archive.ph at 10 Sep 2015 19:39:53 UTC</ref> Some Metapedia admin apparently at one stage were prepared to ally with extremist Muslims against Jews, however this tactic appears to have been dropped. There are some [[Islamophobic]] postings on Metapedia, but one gets the impression its admins hate Jews more than Muslims.

=== Sample comments ===
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;On themselves:
:"As a website, Metapedia is strongly opposed to [[Jewish]] supremacism and its slave army of beast-men of the demiurge. In the battle between good and evil, Metapedia is strongly in favour of the [[Aryan]] race — descendants of the god-men of Hyperborea and Ultima Thule."<ref name="ultima"/> 
;On "race"
:"From the [[Tower of Babel]] to the later 20th century this was an accepted fact of reality... [t]he races of men are an easily observable fact of nature and a product of [[common sense]]. They are part and parcel of what makes up the Natural order."<ref>[[:File:Capture cbaf018c0e4e8ac85810030232293b6bc9e2ce22.png|"Race" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On racism
:"Racism is the recognition that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race... [R]acism can range from mere recognition of skin deep differences between races to the acknowledgement that humanity contains a downward spiral, with the White race at the top and the lesser races — such as the Indigenous Australians, Bushmen and Hottentots — at the bottom."<ref>[[:File:Capture a77aeeaf64207f9db0bdfa83e03513636d87e220.png|"Racism" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On anti-racism
:"Anti-racism is the Marxist ideology of opposition to 'racism'. According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', the term 'racist' was coined by Leon Davidovich Bronstein ([[Leon Trotsky]]). Anti-racism is a major focus of [[Cultural Marxism]]."<ref name=pinko>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/23/metapedia/ Conservapedia too pinko? Try Metapedia]</ref>
;On "[[African Americans|Negroids]]"
:"Even in the scarce cases of the Negroid showing some small spark of genius it has been with those having a great deal of white or arabic ancestry... decreased intelligence and increased animal sex drive... allowing for more efficient and brutal rape of children."<ref>[[:File:Capture 028ba1d86bb6cbbf5c8bec8339d6bc87519acfa1.png|"Negroids" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On "[[Asian|Mongoloids]]"
:"Only few of human discoveries were done by mongoloid people ... [they] especially are known for subtle art of tortures they apply on other people."<ref>[[:File:Capture 3e6dc32c33b8b25185ec4288221382504740bffd.png|"Mongoloids" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On "[[Sodomite]]s"
:"See also [[pedophilia|Pedophiles]], a similar form of illness."<ref>[[:File:Capture 766bb7ee795bed1263d986f6f1894e47cc077ae8.png|"Sodomites" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On "[[Blood libel|Jewish ritual murder]]"
:"It is believed by some that the Jewish religion led in the past to the murder of Gentile children in order to use their blood for ritual dinners."<ref>[[:File:Capture 162ce823f7ac9f4c2ec2a6f6f62e489b65b83e2d.png|"Jewish ritual murder" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On [[hate speech]]
:"Hate Speech is a term used by governments and governing élites to refer to any opposition to official doctrine — for example, any political opposition to immigration or [[miscegenation|miscegenetion]]<sup>[''sic'']</sup>."<ref>[[:File:Capture 0539ae819c21ce0580e0d1e57366447e283ed520.png|"Hate Speech" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On "[[Purim]]"
:"The righteous Haman did as many of us have done today. Declared that all jews should be exterminated for their crimes against our peoples...","...was stopped and beaten to death with fire extinguishers. This is how all jews should be dealt with.","Whatever they “pray” to is a dark, demonic force of evil energy, to which they also [[blood libel|sacrifice human babies]] to<sup>[''sic'']</sup>."<ref><capture>http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Purim&oldid=178037</capture></ref>
;On "[[Native Americans|American Indians]]"
:"...[[Irony meter|one of the most violent races on earth]]."<ref>[[:File:Capture dad216dfb5d5ed0d327f6360e4da2b94e2ac7760.png|"American Indians" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On "Native Americans"
:"...in its historical meaning was a [[WASP|White Anglo-Saxon Protestant]] born in the United States of America."<ref>[[:File:Capture e100d663ecaf6f3ecac2a15ec31a56a3131ceac4.png|"Native American" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On [[African American]]s
:"...generally African Americans have around 20-30% White blood. This accounts for their higher intelligence and lower crime rates than pure-blooded Negroes."<ref>[[:File:Capture 75ecd1f2066a6f7cb09a0efe4e1caeeed63f0559.png|"African-Americans" at Metapedia (screenshot)]]</ref>
;On "[[Roma|Gypsies]]"
:"They are well known for mistreating their children... [b]eing their ancestors selected among criminals, they have a genetic inheritage that makes them more inclined to steal and commit violence against other people."
;On [[Globalization|Globalism]]
:"is an international movement, driven primarily by Trotskyism, Zionism and free-market liberalism, which is working to establish a [[one world government|one world government]]."
;On [[Conspiracy theory]]
:"is an epithet invented by Jewish polemicist [[Karl Popper]], Since that time the phrase has been used most commonly to describe members of the Truth movement and alternative media, or in a more general sense people who hold opinions on historical events disliked by the ruling establishment. What are once described as "conspiracy theories" as an epithet are later admitted to be true history by the "powers that be" when it is political convenient to do so and the lie is no longer useful."
;On [[Alex Jones]]
:"The scope of material covered by Jones is broad and generally regarding the New World Order. Some of his "theories" are unusual, including FEMA concentration camps, HAARP weather modification, chemtrails, etc. Jones believes that 9/11 was an "inside job". Some of the information covered by Jones is factual, but he splices his material with deceptive shepherding. The most controversial aspect of Jones is his alleged gatekeeping for the Jewish criminal network; particularly Zionism."
;On the [[United Kingdom Independence Party]]
:"In recent years they have tried to portray themselves as a multiple-issue "patriotic" party, and regularly try to steal [[British National Party]] votes by claiming to oppose mass-immigration."<ref><capture>[http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Independence_Party "United Kingdom Independence Party" at Metapedia]</capture></ref>
;On [[Wikipedia]]
:"A far-left and Judeocentric, multilingual wiki project, censured by an internal bureaucracy of tribal editing clans to conform to a largely neo-Marxist and Zionist viewpoint."<ref>Has since changed its description, however the whole Metapedia article on Wikipedia from this time can be read here: {{cite book|author=Sorin Cerin|title=[https://books.google.com/books?id=X3eZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 Wikipedia: Pseudo- encyclopedia of the lie, censorship and misinformation]|date=23 April 2011|publisher=Sorin Cerin|isbn=978-1-4565-5660-0|pages=97–107}}</ref>
;On [[Conservapedia]]
:"Despite purporting to be a conservative website, Conservapedia is rife with Marxist phraseology. It describes Metapedia as a "[[Stopped clock|racist]]" website; a term devised by Leon Trotsky founder of the Red Army."
;On [[RationalWiki]]
:"The website fraudulently portrays itself as being "rational," and opposed to "pseudoscience," yet promotes exactly the thing that they claim to oppose: the irrational spiritual pseudosciences of genetic egalitarianism and race denialism."
;On [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]
:"Adolf Hitler remains one of the preeminent individuals in human history. In his personal life Hitler was a vegetarian, supported animal welfare, sympathized with the poor, was a fine artist and enjoyed classical music."
;On [[DAESH|ISIS]]
:"ISIS tends to have unclear aims. ... ISIS also quickly lost focus on stopping jews/Israel and at one point did not like the Yazadi people, and a week later announced it would reconquer Spain. It has done no action in conquering Spain and it might just be talk that they forget about a week later."<ref>Damn.. They were doing so good as well[!] <capture>[http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/ISIS "ISIS" on Metapedia]</capture></ref>
;On [[Winston Churchill]]
:"A Freemason Zionist race-traitor." This despite the fact that Churchill was a racist who brutally suppressed the Mau Mau rebellion.
;On [[Ayn Rand]]
:"A scheming Russian Jewess." Never mind that Rand was ''also'' a racist who called American Indians "savages".
;On Léon Degrelle
:"After World War II, he was a prominent figure in promoting National Socialism and Historical Revisionism. He continued publishing and polemicizing, voicing his support for national solutions and refused to accept the holocaust lie."<ref>http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Leon_Degrelle </ref>
;On [[Pornography]]
:"The pornography industry also heavily promotes miscegenation, however while they will make endless 'blacks on blondes' porn, they will never produce 'Palestinian on Jew' porn."<ref><capture>[https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Pornography "Pronography" on Metapedia]</capture></ref>

You can find a few more examples of their antics archived on our "[[RationalWiki:What is going on in the Fourth Reich?|What is going on in the Fourth Reich?]]" page. Some users of Metapedia take delight in vandalising this article when they visit RationalWiki.<ref name="ultima">Edit to [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Metapedia&diff=593312&oldid=584518 this page] by an apparent Metapedian.</ref> There is also a Wordpress blog known as "metadave" with similar content, though its relationship with the wiki is unclear.
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== Metapedian neologisms ==
"''Volkenhass''" (ungrammatical and bastardized [[German]] for "people-hate," apparently<ref>Well... "Volkenhass" is further away from the correct "Volkshass" or "VölkerHaß" than "Wolkenhass" (hatred of clouds), so maybe they meant that.</ref>) is a word which does not exist in any sane version of the English or German languages. Nevertheless, it is used by Metapedia – [http://web.archive.org/web/20151025231747/http://wikinfo.org/w/index.php/Volkenhass and wikinfo] – to pretend that "racism" means something nice. The German term "Völkerhaß" means literally "hatred of other nations" and isn't a real German word, either.

== See also ==
*[[Michael Coombs]]
*[[Poe's Law]]
*[[Youth for Western Civilization]]
*[[Holocaust denial]]
*[[Rightpedia]], Metapedia's even crazier cousin
*[[National mysticism]] - what that [[bullshit]] about 'descendants of the god-men of Hyperborea and Ultima Thule' is.

==External links==
*[http://www.metapedia.org/ Metapedia's home page] 

==References==
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