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Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com)
gollum123 shares a report by Sean Illing via Vox: "Google is a digital truth serum," Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies , told me in a recent interview. "People tell Google things that they don't tell to possibly anybody else, things they might not tell to family members, friends, anonymous surveys, or doctors." Stephens-Davidowitz was working on a PhD in economics at Harvard when he became obsessed with Google Trends, a tool that tracks how frequently searches are made in a given area over a given time period. As a barometer of our national consciousness, Google is as accurate (and predictive) as it gets. In 2016, when the Republican primaries were just beginning, most pundits and pollsters did not believe Trump could win. After all, he had insulted veterans, women, minorities, and countless other constituencies. But Stephens-Davidowitz saw clues in his Google research that suggested Trump was far more serious than many supposed. Searches containing racist epithets and jokes were spiking across the country during Trump's primary run, and not merely in the South but in upstate New York, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, rural Illinois, West Virginia, and industrial Michigan.
Oh good. The"reverse racism" nonsense peddled by Fox News has made in appearance.
I mean this Google "study" has blatant methodological flaws, but your criticism is just intellectually lazy trash.
Prove everyone wrong by providing rational discourse and not just using every buzzword that has been used to describe him for the last year.
Oh yeah, like that works. If you want to learn all about cognitive dissonance, try changing the minds of Trump supporters. Start with the studies showing coal is filthy, nasty fuel and the Trump crowd just dismisses the science as made-up. Tell them gender/marriage equality is important and you'll get responses that run the gauntlet from "Skydaddy says it's wrong" to "I think Trump doesn't actually have any problems with *those people*" (denial).
Healthcare, jobs, China, the "Muslim Ban", the wall, shit just goes on and on. You make a rational argument as to why Trump's policies sound like they're something he came up with during a drunken poker game, back it up with citations to peer-reviewed factual data, and in response you hear why you're just a snowflake who hates America.
Nope, I'm convinced the best course of action is to get the complacent like-minded people off their ass and in to the polls the next election. That's far more likely to be successful than trying to play damage control with a bunch of deplorables.
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You forgot to include the police.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
There does seem to be more violent left-wing thugs than there are right-wing thugs...
That's because if they're right-wing we don't call them "thugs", we call them "domestic terrorists" (or, even more likely, "lone crazy actor, nothing to see here"), because they tend to skip the whole "trying to shut down this talk" part and go straight to the murder.
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Because nobody gets killed in any country but the United States ever. Youre a smart one.