The Geography of Hate

[_Analytics]

the most being in areas with the densest population? shocking!

Because everyone knows that places like Kansas and Aalabama are much more densly populated than, say, Southern California.

[_bcspace]

In addition, "homophobic" is usually arbitrarily defined anyway.

[_palerobber]

the most being in areas with the densest population? shocking!

wrong! results were "normalized by number of tweets."

why are you so defensive about these map anyway? i mean they're not talking about you, are they?

[_ldsfaqs]

While I think Subspace has an argument, he is taking it too far in this case, making the wrong argument.

The argument isn't about who say's what and why, it's about the SERIOUSLY Flawed study.

Tell me liberals.... WHO in the flip in "Southern Idaho" that first is a "conservative" and second FRIGGEN TWEETS?

ZERO.... NADA..... "Tweeters" are young primarily ignorant childish liberal youth who wouldn't know a brain if it was right in front of them. While yes that is a generalization, it's certainly not for "Southern Idaho". Tell us liberals..... What mature ADULT in Southern Idaho, let alone conservative one is going to be "tweeting"???

There would be very few.... Thus the study is seriously flawed.

You people need to learn to look for actual facts, rather than be brainwashed by "studies" that can have serious flaws and bias in them, and thus are anything but "factual".

[_subgenius]

the most being in areas with the densest population? shocking!

wrong! results were "normalized by number of tweets."

why are you so defensive about these map anyway? i mean they're not talking about you, are they?

no, because on election night i tweeted "Aw yea homey, my nigger got re-elected!"

[_subgenius]

for example, the map here:
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/_ ... aphics.png

high percentage areas of blacks coinciding with the tweets mentioned before, which means less proportion of whites than say, South Dakota.

http://africanamericanenglish.com/2010/ ... rspective/

"That African Americans (and some Latinos) are able to use the N-word freely while others are not is, I take it, an obvious fact. In one particular form, the N-word carries connotations of camaraderie. The expression is used, as rapper Q-Tip has pontificated, “as a term of endearment.
...
Others, like Bill Cosby, claim that uses of the N-word are a kind of self-degradation by blacks, which illustrates a certain lack of self-regard or racial pride. I’m not sure either one of these claims holds up.”

i take no defense, but rather take offense at conclusions being drawn by the OP...such obtuse and myopic stereotyping...ironic in light of this subject.
This offense is taken both as a southerner and as a minority.

[_Droopy]

An interresting map of the location of tweets that contain homophobic, racist or abliest language.

At the point at which one lays his eyes upon a string of the traditional dreary and threadbare PC isms and ists so beloved of the relentless culture warriors and sainted paragons of virtue of the Left, deployed in a thundering spasm or moral piety, one's eyes should cross, roll up into one's head, and that should be the end of any thought of actually answering such a statement.

Long ago, the Left discovered that the ease with which its arguments could to stood on their heads required that they dispense with the classic disciplines of logic, philosophy, and serious, point/counterpoint debate, and become masters of the poison well.

The tradition continues...

[_Doctor Steuss]

I never did much like the first chapter of Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury."

[_Morley]

At the point at which one lays his eyes upon a string of the traditional dreary and threadbare PC isms and ists so beloved of the relentless culture warriors and sainted paragons of virtue of the Left, deployed in a thundering spasm or moral piety, one's eyes should cross, roll up into one's head, and that should be the end of any thought of actually answering such a statement.

Long ago, the Left discovered that the ease with which its arguments could to stood on their heads required that they dispense with the classic disciplines of logic, philosophy, and serious, point/counterpoint debate, and become masters of the poison well.

The tradition continues...

I never did much like the first chapter of Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury."

My gawd, I love you.

[_subgenius]

moral deterioration replaced by contemporary hopelessness...oh joy!