Posted on 08/10/2018 8:02:17 PM PDT by Trump20162020
If you’ve managed to make it this far in life without quite figuring out what demographic boxes to tick on the Census form, a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research might have some clues for you. According to the Washington Post, University of Chicago economists Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica “taught machines to guess a person’s income, political ideology, race, education, and gender based on either their media habits, their consumer behavior, their social and political beliefs, and even how they spent their time.” The results are, at times, surprisingly granular and seemingly nonsensical: Owning a pet and a flashlight is a strong indicator of whiteness, as is a proclivity towards Vlasic pickles and Stove Top stuffing mix. Others are disappointing, like the fact that the attitude most indicative of whiteness is approval of police striking citizens.
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Also, can’t figure out how to register to vote.
Actually, every single statement in this article about the proclivities and preferences of White people is simultaneously a statement about Black people, too.
To wit: If you don't own a flashlight and don't eat stove-top stuffing, you're probably Black.
Regards,
So what, my Daddy smoked Kools so I could play good blues guitar.
What’s their point and, who gives a rip, these people are embarrassing the hell out of themselves.
It must suck to be this damn stupid, so stupid they dunno it how stupid.
Signed , Whitey
So the left is now teaching machines how to racially profile based on stereotypes? I thought that was bad?
I love Stove Top Stuffing (Chicken, Turkey and Herb) with gravy. And I love my cats (with stuffing and a fine chianti).
What’s wrong with that?
#28. Sick, very sick. Read the expiration labels, please.
Re “What is you eat mayonnaise and drink Colt 45?”
That’s ok. Problem is when you “Eat Colt 45 and drink mayo”.
Definitely should see a dietician.
Hmmm, interesting. On of my best buds is black, loves cats, can’t eat enough stove top and, gasp, wait for it.... is a home owner in the suburbs. I am going to have to break the news to him today. Hmmm, dude, I don’t know how to tell you but according to the govt, you are white.
I have a cat !
Felony fleeing in a stolen car is an indicator of non whiteness.
Good heavens!! I didn’t know my sister-in-law was black! She’s always moving somewhere. She has never had a house, a job, or a man that suited her. Always changing, looking for better.
Eat fried chicken and own a pit bull/rottweiler mix?
Other than one cat in my life, I would agree with blacks not liking them. As to stuffing, I suspect that black women don’t need to be babied regarding putting together a delicious stuffing mix...unlike high-power white women.
Exactly the same here. Why would you buy something as gross as Stove Top when it’s so easy (and somuch better) to make your own?
No pets now, our families have only owned dogs for at least 3 generations.
We don’t use Stove Top Stuffing, and our favorite pickles are Mt Olive.
Living in Californicator land, can bring earthquakes, fires, floods ad other things which we have no control over. They often take out our electrical power. So we have plug in flashlights in our living room, family room, kitchen and bed rooms. They go on if there is a power failure.
If the earthquakes occur at night, people often jump out of bed barefooted and cut/slice their feet on broken glass on the floor. So our bedroom emergency lights are rechargeable ones that fit over our heads, so we can see where we are going after we get into our hard sole slippers by our beds.
If that makes us white, so be it.
Green bean casserole is just nasty.
Exactly. Same old shit, different day.
It’s all a matter of time and when.
500 years ago, what was the status of the average white person? A peasant or serf!
Very few got to be the Lord of the Manor, let alone King or Queen.
Millions of poor, short lives lived and gone. Color didn’t matter.
Rather than harp on the differences between us, how about we celebrate the commonalities we have?
500 years ago, white people were denied home ownership and lived in a hut or shack on the Lord’s land.
150 years ago, most blacks lived in similar circumstances as slaves. We fought a war over this and they were freed. But they were still dirt poor. But so were white Americans. Many white immigrants lived in abject poverty in big city slums then also.
Over time, things got better for most of us. We made our laws more fair, and let people work hard and make America great.
50 Years ago Jim Crow ended in my South. Still, some whites and blacks can’t own homes, because they’re poor.
This is what MAGA is about. Not going back to an earlier time when blacks were inferior, but to an earlier time when work was our national ethic, not welfare. It is colorblind, which also is a supremacist word I guess, but that is a falsehood.
Anyway, my point is that the whole of humanity has been trodden down at one time or another, but American exceptionalism is all about allowing each person the freedom to achieve their own greatness.
Stop living in the past and get ‘er done!
I hate cats and don’t buy stove top. But still, I’m a complete racist. The other day, I was carrying three flashlights. All high end ones too.
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