Who Gets to Decide What’s Racist on Wikipedia?
So, in 2006, Virginian senate candidate George Allen made a pretty-racist comment about an Indian, camera-toting rep from his rival’s campaign, calling him “Macaca” and “welcoming” him to America. Like an asshole! Media outrage popped—as did a Wiki-war. Allen denied “macaca” was an actual slur, and that he’d just conjured it up. But the very…
