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News: Why So Many Black People Are On Twitter
Member Since: 9/23/2009
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Originally posted by Entity
I'm ****ing loving you, and I don't like that a lot of people here.  |
 I love you tew bew.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by Entity
How is this racist? researching I mean.
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The fact that is was researched alone should spark debate. Why are black people the only ones being researched? Furthermore, why are the hashtags about black people automatically attached to black people? No one knows who started a hashtag, why did they not mention other hashtags like #Demi&Cutters which were more than likely started by Caucasian youth? Why did they feel the need to group the words white & wealthy when mentioning Myspace users and then group African Americans with the words ghetto, and child molesters? Why do these studies always come off looking like another way to attack black people? Because that is exactly what they are.
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Member Since: 11/2/2009
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Originally posted by ifyouseekLEM
Since I'm black, I live in a low-income area without high speed internet, so I have to feed my Twitter addiction through my pre-paid Boost mobile phone. I also trend stupid **** on Twitter, of course, it's the n***as trending racially incentive **** about Arabs.
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Member Since: 3/16/2011
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Jay
It's racist to even wonder why there's so many black people on Twitter.
I'm guessing black people are supposed to be the minority because they're black, right?
Exactly...
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Well black people are a minority in north america/europe and thats where most twitter users come from so i can see how some may wonder why.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Originally posted by jungle juice
It's not. Like I said, yes, the article is questionable. The facts are not. There's nothing wrong with researching race, demographics, and cultural differences.
This is something that is REAL in America.
I don't have receipts to show you, but it's no secret that broadband internet is expensive and not a reality for low-income families. Also, look no further than the commercials for Metro and Boost and other cell phone companies to see who they target. Are those commercials racist?
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Yes those commercials are racist...and you are starting to sound it 
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Member Since: 9/14/2010
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Originally posted by Entity
How is this racist? researching I mean.
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By wondering why there are more, they were obviously expecting there to be less. Why is this?
Making a difference between members of a website due to skin colour is racist.
It shouldn't even be an issue.
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Member Since: 5/8/2011
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Originally posted by satellites™
The fact that is was researched alone should spark debate. Why are black people the only ones being researched? Furthermore, why are the hashtags about black people automatically attached to black people? No one knows who started a hashtag, why did they not mention other hashtags like #Demi&Cutters which were more than likely started by Caucasian youth? Why did they feel the need to group the words white & wealthy when mentioning Myspace users and then group African Americans with the words ghetto, and child molesters? Why do these studies always come off looking like another way to attack black people? Because that is exactly what they are.
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They also researched White, Asians, etc population in Twitter, it's just that there are more Black people in Twitter that's why it became the headline. It'd be boring for them to title the article 'White People #2 in Twitter account'.
Have you gone to school? They always ask you to check the box of the race you belong to. It's not racism, it's a survey to study demographics.
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Member Since: 12/28/2010
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Originally posted by satellites™
This is racist, plain & simple.
1. I don't run out to buy new phones.
2. I have a macbook pro and I do not use the internet on my phone, never have!
3. I rarely ever use Twitter, I prefer Tumblr.
4. Various points made in this article were very racist and stereotypical.
5. Whoever wrote it can jump in a hole and die.
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agree
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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Originally posted by Chris191
All they did was research, now what Jungle Juice said was a little racist, but the article just did research about Twitter & race, random, but not particularly racist...
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Back in the mid-2000s, MySpace experienced something like "white flight" as wealthier, whiter users came to see it as a digital "ghetto" full of child molesters
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the article bunched blk ppl with child molesters and called blk ppl "ghetto."
I mean sis...
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Member Since: 10/26/2010
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Racism on ATRL again. 
Let me go see what my massah want with me though.
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Member Since: 12/28/2010
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im black and I dont have twitter, 
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Their conclusion is reasonably possible, though not necessarily correct—but I don't see how it's racist.
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Back in the mid-2000s, MySpace experienced something like "white flight" as wealthier, whiter users came to see it as a digital "ghetto" full of child molesters and headed for the literally lighter-colored Facebook. But Twitter seems to be doing just fine in fostering a diverse user base while not making anyone too uncomfortable (or, rather, making everyone equally uncomfortable all the time.) Perhaps this heralds a new golden era of E-race relations! Stupid hashtags like #thingsblackpeopledo and #fatindiebands living side-by-side in the trending topics.
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Originally posted by satellites™
Let's not forget the article on psychologytoday.com about black women being less attractive then white women.
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Ugh, that **** was just ridiculous. The same goes for black men in the gay community.
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Member Since: 11/7/2010
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
the article bunched blk ppl with child molesters and called blk ppl "ghetto."
I mean sis...
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They say those are the "whiter people" that said that, did they not?
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Member Since: 10/4/2010
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Originally posted by satellites™
The fact that is was researched alone should spark debate. Why are black people the only ones being researched?
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All that matters. The fact that people even think to care about **** like this is just annoying and borderline racist. It needs to be dropped.
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Member Since: 3/16/2011
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Originally posted by Entity
They also researched White, Asians, etc population in Twitter, it's just that there are more Black people in Twitter that's why it became the headline. It'd be boring for them to title the article 'White People #2 in Twitter account'.
Have you gone to school? They always ask you to check the box of the race you belong to. It's not racism, it's a survey to study demographics.
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i agree, i cant @ the people who think doing a research about ethnicity on twitter is racist 
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Member Since: 11/7/2010
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& I will say, they are definitely looking for an arguement though...
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Originally posted by cheap
i agree, i cant @ the people who think doing a research about ethnicity on twitter is racist |
The calvary arrives looking just as foolish.
So say that was the case, Why would this boy post THIS article out of all the others?
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by jungle juice
It's not. Like I said, yes, the article is questionable. The facts are not. There's nothing wrong with researching race, demographics, and cultural differences.
This is something that is REAL in America.
I don't have receipts to show you, but it's no secret that broadband internet is expensive and not a reality for low-income families. Also, look no further than the commercials for Metro and Boost and other cell phone companies to see who they target. Are those commercials racist?
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Which facts? Find them for me. Because outside of the survey statistics which by the way we don't have hard numbers for, the rest is ********. There were 505 students, how many of them were black? How many of them grew up in urban neighborhoods? This is the point im making, the survey they did proved absolutely nothing, because Twitter is filled with way more black youth than that surveys answers compiled. And as far as your Broadband internet argument, it's not only false, but its also very ignorant and racist, because you instantly associated the words low-income with African American families.
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