Zach Goldberg
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Wokeness Studies scholar researching all things woke @ManhattanInst. All views are my own.
Joined February 2014
1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we can all say 'holy fucking shit'.
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Haaretz's Amos Harel reports that, behind the scenes, almost every Arab leader is urging Israel not to stop the war until Hamas is destroyed
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1/n A recent nationally representative survey commissioned by Skeptic Mag asked respondents to estimate the number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019. Overall, 44% of liberals guessed 1,000 or more as compared to 20% of conservatives (this calculation is based on the.
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Ok, so here's some of that context: between 2016-2021, an average of 93.3% of all racially identified Memphis violent crime offenders were black, 6.4% were white, and 0.14% were Asian.
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1/n No, the NYT (and likely other outlets) didn't always do this (i.e., '[Name of person], who is white. ') to the same extent that they have over the past decade or so.
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43% of Democrats vs. 70% of Republicans think that people "should be allowed to express unpopular opinions in public, even those that are deeply offensive". Strikingly, a similar proportion of Democrats support speech restrictions (39%).
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1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pew's March 2020 COVID-19 survey. First, white (and especially 'very') liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition.
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My long overdue (and warning: long) article on the media’s role in the sowing of racial conflict and the spread of wokeness is finally here. Check it out
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1/n White liberals are significantly more likely to say that they sometimes or often/all the time secretly wish for bad things to happen to those who disagree with them politically
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1/n If 2016 was the year white liberals started rating non-whites more warmly than whites, 2020 was the year they started. a) rating whites as more violent than blacks
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I suppose progressive activists just need to do a better job explaining to Hispanic dems why 'All Lives Matter' is so 'problematic'
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1/Strange. Palestinian Christians face the same oppressive occupation as their Muslim peers, and yet they are consistently vastly less likely to support acts of terrorism against Israeli civilians. Such a mystery.
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By far the most supportive of speech restrictions are--wait for it--white liberals and democrats in the 18-29 age category.
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The percent of black who think they are treated just as well as whites in their communities was lower in 2018 (18.3%) than it was in the year before the passage of the civil rights act (23.5%). Objectively speaking, this can't be true.
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1/n The Great Awokening: Twitter edition . Credits to the folks at for compiling and sharing these data.
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1/n No. It's not just your imagination. This term was only rarely used until just a few years ago.
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#14: One important thing to keep in mind is that only results for articles which LexisNexis has inventorized are going to turn up. For instance, the trend below technically begins in the 1980s; but only a handful of articles that LexisNexis has for this period mentions 'racism'.
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1/n On January 18, 2016, 26-year-old Daniel Shaver was gunned down in the hallway of a Laquinta hotel as he sobbingly begged police not to shoot him (see here for the bodycam video . On July 6, 2016, 32-year-old Philando Castile was. .
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4/n Furthermore, the average liberal respondent also thought that a clear majority of people killed by police in 2019 were black (in actuality, roughly a quarter were)
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My Punjabi inlaws are making me culturally appropriate at my upcoming wedding. As a white man of power and privilege, I tried to explain to them the insensitivity and racism of such behavior, but it all fell on deaf ears. So here I am in Trudeauean fashion (minus the brown face)
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If racism is everywhere, why does the NBA need to run frequent ads telling me that 'racism is everywhere'. Wouldn't it be self-evident?.
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Young (18-34) whites exhibit the lowest in-group bias of any racial/ethnic group, while white liberals are the only demographic to register a pro-outgroup bias (#whiteguilt)
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Very interesting: hispanic dems are over 3x more likely than white and black dems to approve sending in the army to deal with violent protests. What gives?
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And yet despite all that, record numbers of incoming liberal college students perceive there to be some to a great deal of discrimination against women in getting a college education. It's always the 1950s for these people.
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1/n Since 2018, the number of unarmed blacks shot and killed by police < the number of police officers murdered by blacks
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Original NYT Racism graph was actually an undercount. The search was generated with racism in quotations (and quotations should only be used when connecting two words). Here's the corrected figure. Let me see if other graphs are similarly affected.
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1/2 I guess I missed this survey when it was first released. 72% of Dems apparently think that public middle or high schoolers should be taught that 'any gaps between whites and blacks is caused by racism' (aka 'Kendism').
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1/n To be completely frank, while I DO sympathize with the Floyd family, I do NOT sympathize (which is not to say I think they shouldn't be allowed to protest) with the protestors (whether violent or non-violent), at least insofar as they think this is ALL about. .
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New study finds that a) democrats overestimate explicit prejudice among Republicans, and b) this overestimation increases perceptions that minority candidates are unelectable, which discourages dem votes for minority candidates.
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And here's the number of NYT articles mentioning 'diversity'
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As some of you pointed out, any search term is likely to see an overtime increase (if only due to growth in the number of news outlets/publications). As such, I think it's better to limit the searches to single publications. So here's the trend for 'PC' in the NYT
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3/n According to the Mapping Police Violence database, the actual figure is 27.
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16/n Some of you asked for it, so here is the last chart broken down by gender. Biggest gap within age x ideological groups is between white liberal men (33.6%) and women (56.3%) in the 18-29 category
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1/n Someone asked me to compile these data, but I'll share them here as well: top 10 unarmed (i.e., no lethal weapon found) white vs. black deaths at the hands of police in terms of ProQuest news article search results
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Most if not all of the victims were white. Therefore, the shooter was racially motivated. Therefore, prosecute as a hate crime (and do not believe the shooter if he gives a different motive).
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Interesting that Dem women (17%) were twice as likely as Dem men (8%) to think that Israel's military response is 'too little' (whereas GOP women are less likely likely to give this response than GOP men). Not what I would have predicted. But perhaps kidnapping, raping, and
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Have a couple more I'm currently working on (including political correctness). Anybody have any other suggestions?.
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The 'privilege' NYT graph was also an undercount. Obviously, the word 'privilege' need not refer to social/racial privilege. I nevertheless find it interesting that its use has grown tremendously over the past few years. It could be just a coincidence, but I'm skeptical.
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1/n Further confirmation of the white liberalism-negative mental health relationship (see the original thread here .
1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pew's March 2020 COVID-19 survey. First, white (and especially 'very') liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition.
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1/ To what extent, if at all, is CRT being taught or promoted in America's pre-tertiary public schools? @epkaufm and I recently conducted a nationally representative survey of 18-20 year-olds to find out. While a full report of our findings will be published in the coming. .
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Update #2: Okay, I've finished one of them. Once again, using 'the' as a search term, I tabulated the number of results for NYT each year between 1980-2018. In the end, it seems that 'racism' mentions grew both in absolute terms *and* as a percent of all listed articles.
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8/n Probably a good place to plug my article from the summer
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4/n Something to consider is that the socially desirable 'I don't want to seem racist' response here should, in theory, be just rating the groups equally on all traits. To go beyond that suggests. .
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11/n Overall, and with one exception (white moderates), those in 18-29 age group are more likely to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition. The differences among white liberals, though, are striking: almost half of white liberals in this cohort report a diagnosis.
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1/n Women who report having personally experienced gender discrimination score significantly higher on neuroticism and openness, and significantly lower on conscientiousness than women that report no such discrimination.
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4/4 In sum, white men shot dead at the hands of police don't generate enough 'clicks' to be worth covering.
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Good lord. I just received this departmental email. I'm very disappointed that my department has sunk this low.
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While there's an increasing gender difference among 12th-graders that seek mental health care, the ideological difference has grown even larger. (Source: Monitoring The Future)
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2/n White liberals were also more likely to think it's appropriate to judge people's past actions and comments by today's moral standards.
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5/5 Oh, btw, the officer in the Shaver case was acquitted of all charges. And not a single protest ensued. .
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1/n Biden's 'Racial Economic Equity' plan calls for disaggregating the 'Asian' category as it perpetuates the 'model minority myth'. But to be consistent, he should also being call for the disaggregation of the 'white' category as it perpetuates 'white privilege' stereotypes.
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2/n shot by police during a traffic stop. Daniel was white, Philando was black. Daniel received mentions in 44 total newspaper articles, Philando drew mentions in 5,572
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2/n Somewhat surprisingly, this difference further grows when we add standard controls
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5/n . genuine animosity (which would accord with trends in anti-white feeling thermometer scores .
Currently formatting my dissertation (hope to share it with you all sometime next month). Here's an interesting chart of trends in 'anti-white' feeling thermometer scores. VSG panel estimates are noisier, but the jump from ~1% in 2011 to ~18% in 2020 is remarkable
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2/n 'systemic racism' and 'privilege'. At the same time, I do UNDERSTAND the protestors and don't hold entirely blame them. They've been fed a lot of lies and bad information over the past decades.
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1/n Updated whites vs. racial/ethnic outgroup feeling thermometer differential scores. Among white liberals, the average differential further widened (in the pro-outgroup/anti-white direction) by about 7 points between 2016-2020, while the small pro-white differential among.
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2/n What I find is that news media content covering black victims is about 9x greater than that of white victims (whether one compares the medians or the means).
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2/ . the increasing ideological differences on these measures are far larger and more numerous
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2/2 Kinda regret spending the time verifying something that is so obvious. But whatever. Another hockey stick graph in the books.
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The idea that Palestinian support for terrorism is largely if not entirely grounded in non-religious grievances is just plain wrong. Muslim hatred of Jews--especially the humiliation/anger felt over losing the land to the Jews' (who, according to the Quran/Hadith, are supposed to.
1/Strange. Palestinian Christians face the same oppressive occupation as their Muslim peers, and yet they are consistently vastly less likely to support acts of terrorism against Israeli civilians. Such a mystery.
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1/n Using the Washington Post Shooting Database (2015-2020), I entered the names of all 'unarmed' black and white police shooting victims into ProQuest and created a tally of search results.
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3/3 Addendum:
@Ravarora1 Trend is nearly identical for 'who is black'. The two series are correlated at r=0.98 (their first differences correlate at r=0.87).
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14/n One of the things that concern me about liberal social engineering and norm-promotion efforts is that they ostensibly cater to those who are emotionally fragile or those with specific personality profiles. Those with different personality profiles or have higher emotional. .
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1/n Data from an Aug. 2021 YouGov survey commissioned by the Cato Instit. shows that 60% of liberals would want social media companies to either permanently remove (32.5%) or suspend the posters (27.5%) of an empirically uncontroversial fact.
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The pro-outgroup bias of white liberals is not an artifact of 0-100 feeling thermometers. It similarly rears itself in 4-point measures of group favorability.
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1/n Data from a survey experiment shows that white liberals significantly overestimate (M=31) the extent of discrimination against job applicants with black-sounding names. White conservatives, in contrast, were most accurate in their estimates (i.e. off by only 3 callbacks).
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I re-read Fryer (2019) more closely last night. Not sure how I missed his finding(s) that a) blacks are actually *less* likely to be shot by police, and b) unarmed whites are more likely to be shot by black police offers than white officers.
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Roughly 1 in 4 White liberals believe that differences in physical abilities between men and women mostly owe themselves to different societal expectations
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10/n I didn't write this thread to mock white liberals or their apparently disproportionate rates of mental illness (and you shouldn't either). Rather, this is a question that's underexplored and which may shed light on attitudinal differences towards various social policies.
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A plurality of Democrats (47%) and a majority of liberals (54%) think that protest-related violence is more often the fault of right-wing than left-wing radicals.
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1/n Fascinating. Very conservative whites take more prescription drugs, on average, than all other ideological subgroups. However, when controlling for age (because older people-->more medication), the pattern reverses and very liberal whites pull ahead.
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Update: Currently working on tallying the annual number of NYT articles between 1980-2018 so I can calculate percentages. The NYT doesn't make this information readily available so I have to 'cheat' by using noise words (e.g. 'the') as search terms.
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3/n The media helped to promote the narrative and the worldviews that motivate such people. It has encouraged people to view complicated issues entirely through the lens of race.
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1/n The percent of blacks and hispanics who say they've personally experienced discrimination 'regularly' or 'from time to time' jumped almost 20 points between 2016 and 2020.
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