Posted on 04/30/2015 9:37:00 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Ithaca, N.Y. — A new study claims to track differing levels of racism across the United States by using Google search data.
The results are not so good for the area that includes Ithaca.
Large swaths of Western New York and the Southern Tier, according to the researchers, are far likelier than other regions of the country to input racist search terms into Google. That means the areas are more likely to be racist, according to the researchers, who tie the results to black mortality rates across the country.
The study, published in PLOS One by data scientist Stephens-Davidowitz, was covered widely in the national media.
Many media outlets highlighted the reportedly high levels of racism in upstate New York as something of a surprise.
“Interestingly, on the map above, the most concentrated cluster of racist searches happened not in the South, but rather along the spine of the Appalachians running from Georgia all the way up to New York and southern Vermont,” notes The Washington Post.
Some may reasonably question if using Google search data for terms like the “N-word” are reasonable indicators of an area’s racism.
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Liberals are totally, 100% phony.
Any time I am arguing with a liberal on FB, I look at their page and 9 times out of 10 then have no black friends. I, a conservative Christian white woman, have quite a few.
Although Maya Angelou was a mind-blowingly overrated poet, she did come up with one thing, to the effect that southerners like black people individually, but dislike them collectively; northerners like black people collectively, but dislike them individually (translation: they like them...but just not next door).
That is hysterical!! You know, I get so mad but I will not let them get to me today. Or at least try lol.
Ithaca is the embodiment of the devil!!! /s
‘are far likelier than other regions of the country to input racist search terms into Google. That means the areas are more likely to be racist.’
This is just a bad assumption.
From the map I notice that most of the big cities are extremely racist. Let’s see. Isn’t that populated by Democrats and blacks? I always suspected blacks to be the real racists around here.
I'll have to ask my brother what he's been GOOgleing. Fishing and hunting articles I thought.
The people of Ithaca are so sweet, none of them knew what a “thug” was. They all had to look it up.
lol.
Agreed!
Mountain people are racist! And they heavily armed.
Edit:
Appalachian mountain people are racist! And they are heavily armed!
That's stupid and racist and also untrue, which words comprise an accurate description of Maya Angelou.
I thought we weren't supposed to "stereotype," to "generalize." Apparently that's something else that liberals reserve to themselves the right to do, but if anyone else does it heaven help them.
Lol
And how many of those ‘rasis searches’ are done by people in Angry Studies classes / departments doing ‘research’?
Has anyone remembered that Ithaca is in, what I remember, as Iroquois Country?
So, of course, if the figures come from an organization with a pro-Negro bias, “even bein’ Injun is all racis’”!
Whatta laff.
It’s a scam: Yer all Raciss! Now give us your money, you bigots you. Maybe we’ll absolve you if you hand over da cash.
Just a racket. New version of Indulgences.
Google based their results on the number of searches that were done for the “N” word on their search engine.
Freepers living in the Washington, DC area, you know what to do.....log onto Google and fire away.
I am sure the colleges out there are major instigators. lol
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