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****SHOCKING**** Housing site Abodo has put together a study analyzing tweets to figure out the most- and least-hate-filled places in the country. Between June 2014 to December 2015, they geolocated 154 keywords among 12 million tweets. The keywords included slurs and other prejudiced language against black people, Hispanic/Latino people, women, gays and lesbians, transgender people, people with disabilities, and the overweight.
Guess Which City Hates Black People The Most
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Interesting. I'd like to know how the survey handled what I'll call "urban slang." In urban slang, members of minority groups use derogatory terms to address each other as a normal speech pattern. I have observed on several occasions two young black people addressing each other as "nigger," "bitch," "girl," "boy" or "dog" with apparent friendliness. This behavior may skew the results. I'm less attuned to the Latin-American or LGBT communities.
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LTC David Brown
I thought the same thing, I have heard black women talking and said " listen bitch that man ain't worth s---t", I would expect the same on social media.
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SGM Erik Marquez
LTC David Brown - "Interesting. I'd like to know how the survey handled what I'll call "urban slang."
Precisely sir, and from what was written in that article NOTHING was done.
It was a simple word search. They then based their conclusions on those basic word searches
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Precisely sir, and from what was written in that article NOTHING was done.
It was a simple word search. They then based their conclusions on those basic word searches
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The research is flawed at the git go.
MANY of the words used in the feed search are in common use in non derogatory ways or by those of the same ethnicity to each other, from the very people that this article claims to address.
Just ONE example...
From the article.
"Black people:
• Negative language: nigger"
Fail of epic proportions. while that word is used negativity, and a commonly a raciest term..Its also WIDELY used COMMON among folks speaking to each other both negatively and as term of endearment.
Any "study" that assigned an automatic negative assumption from the use of this word in a tweet, without looking at the speaker and receiver and their ethnicity is flawed at best, if not intentionally done to skew the results in support of a preconceived outcome they desired to "prove"
MANY of the words used in the feed search are in common use in non derogatory ways or by those of the same ethnicity to each other, from the very people that this article claims to address.
Just ONE example...
From the article.
"Black people:
• Negative language: nigger"
Fail of epic proportions. while that word is used negativity, and a commonly a raciest term..Its also WIDELY used COMMON among folks speaking to each other both negatively and as term of endearment.
Any "study" that assigned an automatic negative assumption from the use of this word in a tweet, without looking at the speaker and receiver and their ethnicity is flawed at best, if not intentionally done to skew the results in support of a preconceived outcome they desired to "prove"
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I think it would be interesting to see 1) demographics from these states - gay, blacks, Hispanics, and so on as well 2) the number of laws each state has pertaining to anti-discrimination. If you look at Wyoming for example the states is sparsely populated with only 493,782 residence. Its 90% white with only 1% of the population being black. Just seems purely mathematically that it would be hard to be a racist when there is only one race - racial population density can attribute for some of this.
In looking into this on a hunch there is however an interesting correlation in the overall derogatory language by state in that many of the "hate states" they rank poorly in percentage of high school graduates - California 50th, Texas 49th, Louisiana 47th, Nevada 41st and Georgia 40th as apposed to some of the least derogatory language states - Montana 1st, Minnesota 2nd, Wyoming 3rd, Vermont 6th, North Dakota 7th, Maine 8th, Wisconsin 11th and South Dakota 13th. It seems rather obvious that there is an inverse correlation between the percentage of high school graduates a state has and amount of derogatory language it has. Not surprised a better educated society is less prone to derogatory language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment
In looking into this on a hunch there is however an interesting correlation in the overall derogatory language by state in that many of the "hate states" they rank poorly in percentage of high school graduates - California 50th, Texas 49th, Louisiana 47th, Nevada 41st and Georgia 40th as apposed to some of the least derogatory language states - Montana 1st, Minnesota 2nd, Wyoming 3rd, Vermont 6th, North Dakota 7th, Maine 8th, Wisconsin 11th and South Dakota 13th. It seems rather obvious that there is an inverse correlation between the percentage of high school graduates a state has and amount of derogatory language it has. Not surprised a better educated society is less prone to derogatory language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment
List of U.S. states by educational attainment - Wikipedia
This article presents a list of U.S. states sorted by educational attainment for persons 25 years of age and older. This table is an estimation based on the responses to the American Community Survey. This survey is a large demographic survey collected throughout the year using mailed questionnaires, telephone interviews, and visits from Census Bureau field representatives to about 3.5 million household addresses annually, regardless of their...
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