User:Antidiskriminator/Struggle for X

Struggle for X ethnicity

For almost every X ethnicity there is a small but extremely persistent group of editors who coordinate their efforts to "struggle for X" ethnicity. Quotation marks are meant to distinct their efforts from real pro-X activities. The point is that there is nothing pro-X in efforts to give undue weight to outdated nationalistic myths. On the contrary.

Their modus operandi include:
 * Victimisation of X - Victimize X. In article about conflicts present X as victims (with overestimated numbers) and particularly good
 * Demonization of Y – in articles about conflicts that include X they struggle to present (Y) party that was opposed to X as particularly bad initiators of the conflicts and consequent events in which it was legitimate for inherently good X to do sometimething bad.
 * Ethnicization of people - attribute X ethnicity to as many people as possible. That even includes:
 * people who lived before X ethnicity was crystallized (in most cases at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century)
 * people whose ethnicity is non-X per reliable sources. They tend to give undue weight to sources which assert X ethnicity of some person, “overlooking” other reliable sources which assert their “non-X ethnicity”
 * all people from X country, even without any source regarding their ethnicity. Kemalist approach – if you are from X country you have to be ethnic X. All Xians (as demonym, people from X country) are ethnic X. End of story. Choke it down.
 * Ethnification of territory - present as big territory as possible as “X lands” (note the connection between blood and soil) although the same territory is populated by people of other ethnicities, sometimes as a majority.

How to deal with issue

Both regular editors and admins try to deal with this issue: This kind of admins’ actions is often perceived as blatant injustice and provoke regular editors who try to deal with this issue to became disruptive and get sanctioned. Since it is (currently) impossible to hold admins responsible for something they did not do, it is impossible to deal with this issue directly.
 * Regular non-admin editors who try to deal with the issue quickly became targeted by editors who struggle for X ethnicity who use fallacies and tactics of railroading to eliminate their opponents. This tactics include:
 * Creating huge wall of comments at talkpages to make the issue appear as “complicated ethnicity related issue which is by definition difficult and very complicated” to distract uninitiated users. When their opponents are isolated, they are quickly tagged based on the false narrative and often banned from the topic or wikipedia.
 * Admins There are not many admins who want to spend their time and energy going trough huge walls of text to deal with this issue. In some cases those who do often do it in the way which is counterproductive and disruptive, though without violation of wikipedia policies, including:
 * Systematic tolerance of disruptive actions of editors who struggle for X ethnicity
 * Issuing sanctions or warnings to their opponents.