Am I an ant? Yes.

But, am I spicy? Also yes.

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  • I think both statements are true - not all knowledge is recorded by academia, and academia is heavily western biased.

    What I suspect is that the down-votes are because the first user was using hyperbole to make a positive comment about our ability to archive these documents and their value. The response points out something that is evident - obviously academic papers do not hold all human knowledge - and shifts the conversation into a not so casual topic of western biases. This sudden shift of the conversation from friendly-casual to geopolitical with little motivation can make some users upset.

    OR, as the other person suggested, maybe the mention of ‘western bias’ is enough to trigger some.