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You are still crying wolf (SSC Article)
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:23 am
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:23 am
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data on why the "KKK" is a complete boogeyman (and as i always asy, just discredit people who bring it up as some kind of gotcha b/c it really has no impact on American politics):
now as for the new boogeyman: the "Alt-Right":
and finally possibly the funniest comment, related to how approximately 1% the US would vote for an openly racist/white supremacist candidate (based on data related to our own David Duke):
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Trump made gains among blacks. He made gains among Latinos. He made gains among Asians. The only major racial group where he didn’t get a gain of greater than 5% was white people. I want to repeat that: the group where Trump’s message resonated least over what we would predict from a generic Republican was the white population.
data on why the "KKK" is a complete boogeyman (and as i always asy, just discredit people who bring it up as some kind of gotcha b/c it really has no impact on American politics):
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If you Google “trump KKK”, you get 14.8 million results. I know that Google’s list of results numbers isn’t very accurate. Yet even if they’re inflating the numbers by 1000x, and there were only about 14,000 news articles about the supposed Trump-KKK connection this election, there are still two to three articles about a Trump-KKK connection for every single Klansman in the world.
now as for the new boogeyman: the "Alt-Right":
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Taking into account the existence of some kind of long tail of alt-right websites,I still think the population of the online US alt-right is somewhere in the mid five-digits, maybe 50,000 or so.
50,000 is more than the 5,000 Klansmen. But it’s still 0.02% of the US population. It’s still about the same order of magnitude as the Nation of Islam, which has about 30,000 – 60,000 members, or the Church of Satan, which has about 20,000. It’s not quite at the level of the Hare Krishnas, who boast 100,000 US members. This is not a “voting bloc” in the sense of somebody it’s important to appeal to. It isn’t a “political force” (especially when it’s mostly, as per the 4chan stereotype, unemployed teenagers in their parents’ basements.)
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So the mainstream narrative is that Trump is okay with alienating minorities (= 118 million people), whites who abhor racism and would never vote for a racist (if even 20% of whites, = 40 million people), most of the media, most business, and most foreign countries – in order to win the support of about 50,000 poorly organized and generally dysfunctional people, many of whom are too young to vote anyway.
and finally possibly the funniest comment, related to how approximately 1% the US would vote for an openly racist/white supremacist candidate (based on data related to our own David Duke):
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I mean, kind of. But remember that 4% of Americans believe that lizardmen control all major governments. And 5% of Obama voters believe that Obama is the Antichrist. The white supremacist vote is about the same as the lizardmen-control-everything vote, or the Obama-is-the-Antichrist-but-I-support-him-anyway vote.
This post was edited on 11/18/16 at 8:26 am
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:25 am to SlowFlowPro
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I mean, kind of. But remember that 4% of Americans believe that lizardmen control all major governments. And 5% of Obama voters believe that Obama is the Antichrist.
And they all post here.
ETA: Obvious typo in quoted passage (first "Obama")
This post was edited on 11/18/16 at 8:26 am
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:26 am to Stagg8
well i don't think lizards control the government, but a frog just may
we need to revise the conspiracy theories
we need to revise the conspiracy theories
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:34 am to SlowFlowPro
Great article. Scott Adams linked that blog yesterday and it went semi viral. It should get more attention.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:37 am to SlowFlowPro
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I mean, kind of. But remember that 4% of Americans believe that lizardmen control all major governments. And 5% of Obama voters believe that Obama is the Antichrist. The white supremacist vote is about the same as the lizardmen-control-everything vote, or the Obama-is-the-Antichrist-but-I-support-him-anyway vote.
Don't forget the population who wrote in Harambe. Never forget Harambe.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:39 am to GumboPot
RIP Iosh, who introduced me to SSC
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:40 am to When in Rome
i'll NEVER forget Harambe. legends never die
Posted on 11/18/16 at 9:17 am to SlowFlowPro
I saved this to read later. This looks like it will be worth the read.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 9:27 am to SlowFlowPro
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i'll NEVER forget Harambe. legends never die
I don't care who you are, Chappelle's bit in his SNL monologue about this was funny.
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"There’s more shootings that I can literally count," Chappelle said. "You can’t even go to the [expletive] zoo without seeing a shooting these days. They shot a gorilla in my local zoo and the Cincinnati police said, 'Shooting that gorilla was the toughest decision this department ever had to make.' I said, 'Well, you 'bout to see a lot of n----s in gorilla costumes in Cincinnati," he said.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 12:07 pm to SlowFlowPro
This article is a great read. It's a shame some people fear the Trump administration thinking that someone like Hitler is taking the WH. Trump ain't squeaky proper, but if anything he is better suited than most Republicans to bridge the gap with minorities who are buying the frickin unsubstantial racist/white supremacy angle the left has been peddling.
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