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CTVNews.ca Published Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:53AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:45AM EDT

Youve heard of alt-right for sure, but how about antifa or the anti-fascism movement?

Extremism doesnt just belong to the far right. Those on the far left are rejecting the mainstream left and fighting extremism with extremism, says Ameil Joseph, a professor of social work at McMaster University who studies race and activism.

The antifa movement has its roots in Europe in the 1930s, when radicals took a paramilitary approach to fighting Nazism, says Joseph. It was also found in the actions of the Black Panthers in the American civil rights era.

Today, its found in groups like Black Lives Matter or the indigenous protests against the Dakota pipeline, Joseph told CTV's Your Morning.

There is the belief that the left hasnt done enough to fight fascism, corruption, widespread centralized executive ordering and that a more radical approach is necessary.

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By Fernando Ramirez, Chron.com / Houston Chronicle

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Louie Gohmert, a controversial Texas lawmaker, had his Wikipedia page edited multiple times after he made national headlines.

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Louie Gohmert, a controversial Texas lawmaker, had his Wikipedia page edited multiple times after he made national headlines.

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Gohmert on secretly being Bert from Sesame Street: Is Bert moonlighting as a Texas congressman or is Gohmert moonlighting as a Sesame Street Muppet?

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Texas lawmaker's Wikipedia page keeps getting edited with insults

Republican U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert is battling for the accuracy of his Wikipedia page.

On Wednesday, the representative of Texas' first district had his Wikipedia page amended with the phrase, "Gohmert also prides himself on being the stupidest member of Congress. It's questionable whether he has the mental capacity to even serve."

Although the changes have now been fixed, it's not the first timeGohmert's biography has been altered.

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On March 7, his page was edited and covered entirely with messages that insulted Donald Trump. The changes were also quickly fixed.

In late February, the same anonymous person edited Gohmert's page to call him a coward. Wikipedia has now blocked the person's IP address.

Gohmert is an outspoken tea party supporter who was recently reelected. He made national headlines this year when he released a statementthat said he would not hold public town halls because of the "violent strains of the leftist ideology, some even being paid, who are preying on public town halls to wreak havoc and threaten public safety."

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According to the Edit-a-thon event organizers, less than 10 percent of all Wikipedia editors are women. As a result, some feminists have grown concerned that such a gender imbalance could result in bias against women on the site.

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Wikipedias gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as women, a group at Oberlin College claims, This represents an alarming absence in an important repository of shared knowledge.

To respond to the gender gap amongst Wikipedia editors, academics and students at institutions around the country have organized Edit-a-thon events to encourage young females to research, add, and correct content on the topics of art and feminism on Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia itself, an Edit-a-thon event involves a group effort focusing on editing a particular topic on the online encyclopedia, while also typically training new editors in using the site. Wikipedia allows any user to edit articles either using an account or anonymously.

Rachel Simone Weil, an art and art history lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, argued that the Edit-A-Thon events seek to fill in the gaps that might exist on Wikipedia due to theoverwhelming amount of male editors.

The intent is not to disproportionately overstate the roles of women or downplay the achievements of men through a malicious rewriting of history, she explained. Rather, this project seeks to revisit gaps in scholarship and canonical history places in which the accounts of womens contributions to society may, for one reason or another, simply not exist.

A similar event was held at Bucknell University on March 3. A page describing the event argued that Wikipedia content is skewed as a result of the overwhelming amount of male contributors: Content is skewed by the lack of female participation, creating imbalance in this increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.

Similar events were held at Temple University and the University of the Arts, both in Philadelphia.

Tom Ciccotta is a libertarian who writes about education and social justice for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @tciccotta or email him at tciccotta@breitbart.com

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