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Old Posted Dec 22, 2013, 11:18 PM
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Is your city Racist or Homophobic?

Is your city racist? Do you see elements of racism or does your city have a history that may have manifested such attitudes? Both in U.S. or outside of the U.S. may apply.


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The more red an area is, the more hate the mappers found. Check out the findings:

Most Racist:


Most Homophobic:




The makers logged geo-coded tweets between June 2012 and April 2013. They filtered the tweets using a list of derogatory terms, and then manually went through the list to identify the tweets used in a negative manner. They were left with 150,000 tweets on which to base these maps.


In terms of what the maps actually represent, well, it’s not exactly a pretty picture. “We think that 150,000 [tweets] is a sufficiently large number to be quite depressed about the state of bigotry in our country,” write the researchers.
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http://www.policymic.com/articles/74...check-this-map
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Dallas is the city of Hate. 'nuff said.
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Basically certain rural areas and quite a bit in the New York-Washington DC corridor.
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Dallas is the city of Hate. 'nuff said.
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Two points:

One, were these numbers adjusted for population? The only kind of data that would make sense would be rates. Just like murder numbers aren't meaningful for cities unless they are adjusted to population. Obviously in lightly populated areas of the west you won't see many hateful tweets, since there aren't many people out there.

Second, this thread isn't going to go anywhere but downhill. TEXCOLO has already started the downhill slide with his (or her) ludicrous post.
     
     
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Two points:

One, were these numbers adjusted for population? The only kind of data that would make sense would be rates. Just like murder numbers aren't meaningful for cities unless they are adjusted to population.
I personally found the map too messy to say much.

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Second, this thread isn't going to go anywhere but downhill. TEXCOLO has already started the downhill slide with his (or her) ludicrous post.
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I personally found the map too messy to say much.



You aren't helping.
Just because I pointed out a post that was uncalled for? Actually, the post itself was quite hateful.

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Old Posted Dec 23, 2013, 2:16 AM
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Two points:

One, were these numbers adjusted for population? The only kind of data that would make sense would be rates. Just like murder numbers aren't meaningful for cities unless they are adjusted to population. Obviously in lightly populated areas of the west you won't see many hateful tweets, since there aren't many people out there.

Second, this thread isn't going to go anywhere but downhill. TEXCOLO has already started the downhill slide with his (or her) ludicrous post.
No they where not adjusted.

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"But we should be careful what we extrapolate from these maps. As The Atlantic Cities' Emily Badger described in February, the density of geotagged tweets may not be well matched to actual population density."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3378749.html
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A bigger, higher resolution map using the technology.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1134264/original.jpg
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Old Posted Dec 23, 2013, 2:18 AM
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Seems to basically align with where people live, no?

Like anywhere, St. John's has racism. It's not an accepted or publicly visible aspect of daily life, but I'm sure it exists. I've personally witnessed one Facebook post (from an ex's mother's new boyfriend) lamenting "multiculturalism", and I've overheard one relative express relief at the fact her new neighbour was Sikh and not Muslim. But that's it - and they were such abnormal experiences that they stuck in my memory.

In Newfoundland, we pride ourselves on being accepting. That's meaningless, really, except in that it indicates just how unacceptable public displays of racism or prejudice can be. We have some stories that are well-known locally, such as the story of American serviceman Lanier Phillips. He was on one of the two American ships sunk off the coast of Newfoundland during WWII. Local residents of the nearby town of St. Lawrence rescued them - and he was so shocked by how the local people treated him as an equal that it forever changed his sense of self worth and his desire to improve the situation of African Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanier_W._Phillips

Today, St. John's is quickly and visibly becoming more multicultural. The main street in my neighbourhood has as many people who are visible minorities as white. However, even today's increasing rate of immigration is still minuscule compared to what larger Canadian and American cities receive. This has provided two great benefits:

1. There is no sense of feeling threatened by immigration among those born/raised here.
2. No sudden rush of immigration, and relatively low numbers, has ensured no ethnic enclaves have developed and newcomers, especially any children born here, tend to join the wider community completely. That's not to imply they lose their culture. Many of them keep it almost entirely. It just means they're regular Newfoundlanders, plus more.

We're getting many of the benefits of a more diverse population - better restaurants, better cultural festivals, more diverse forms of community engagement, more things to do, more life to be lived... - without any of the most common growing pains.

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As for homophobia... not at all. St. John's excels in that regard. We were one of the first cities in North America to have an official gay bar. It's just a non-issue for the vast majority of the population, and has been for decades.

In the early 1980s, when police were raiding gay clubs in major cities in Canada and the United States, here they were producing pop songs encouraging gay and lesbian people in rural Newfoundland (communities there are called outports) to move to St. John's and live the good life, openly.

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Its definitely a topic that does exist in a lot of cities. Although somewhat controversial to talk about, it is there. I suspect historical events have definitely played a role in creating a type of hate among citizens in certain cities. For example in Newark,Nj, I would attribute it to the Newark Riots and the police treatment of African Americans. Also the loss of manufacturing jobs caused crime to skyrocket, and neighborhoods to deteriorate causing different ethnicity's to clash and thus a "racism" that exists this day. I think it is changing though with the new generation, and that heavy duty racism exists with the generation of the 60's and 70's. It would be interesting to see this study conducted 20 years from now. Although not 100% accurate, its intention was to be "general" , not precise.

It's an interesting study overall using social media. The brief analysis of the motive and some downfalls of using the study can be summarized below: NOTE: MAP is interactive. clicking next to the term provides a drop list and the map does change with certain keywords. Interesting trends when it comes to certain words. (LINK BELOW)
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What you’re looking at is actually a map created by pairing Google’s Maps API with a hailstorm of homophobic, racist and other prejudicial tweets. It’s part of a project overseen by Humboldt State University professor Monica Stephens, who, along with a team of undergraduate researchers, wanted to test for geographic relationships to hate speech.

Above the map, the words homophobic, racist and disability define alternate “hate storm” views, each describing a range of highly offensive terms. Click on the keywords or any of their subcategories and the map shifts, the splotches reorganizing to reflect occurrences of the selected term: bright red areas describe the “most hate,” while light blue ones describe “some hate.”

Creating a map like this is essentially about data plotting. In this case, HSU says the data was derived from “every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 to April 2013” that contained keywords related to hate speech. How’d HSU collect all of that Twitter data? Through DOLLY, a University of Kentucky project that maps social media according to geography, allowing researchers to then comb through the data for patterns or correlations. But what about tweets that used the keywords in a positive (that is, “critical of them”) sense? HSU’s researchers read through the tweets manually, categorizing each as positive, neutral or negative — the map only displays the tweets categorized as negative.

What can the map tell us about hate speech in the U.S.? That’s where this gets tricky. Cycling through all of the views, you might conclude that racists, homophobes and the disability-bigoted plague the country from the Midwest to the East Coast (or that, conversely, things are fairly quiet from the Rockies to the Pacific). But as Stephens herself notes, “Even when normalized, many of the slurs included in our analysis display little meaningful spatial distribution,” and as she later tweeted, “in the East Coast the counties are smaller, so if a word is used in adjacent counties it appears as a hot spot,” which accounts for some of the East Coast–West Coast disparity.


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Read more: The Geography of U.S. Hate, Mapped Using Twitter | TIME.com http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/20/...#ixzz2oGDe50x3

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