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16 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
1. OMG! Just finding out now, via @TiffanyDCross (love her show, THIS is why diversity MATTERS BTW) that there was a 538 analyst @farai whose work on demos & voting was intentionally surpressed by Nate Silver who patronized her when she confronted him for
2. & I'm sure she's never heard of me, or what happened to me or what I went through for the same reasons (my research argues that polarization/hyper partisanship -which is asymmetric (concentrated on the Right) is a product of the collapse of the white power paradigm & rise of
3. egalitarianism & argues that election outcomes are heavily conditioned on the demographic composition of the electorate (which campaigns should manipulate via their electioneering to win- IE: Georgia) & Silver has pretty aggressively shit on me & my research but back to her
4. when @farai had her follow up call about his editorially killing that reporting & he patronized her- that's exactly how things went for me & hate to say it but he is the type to engage in retaliatory actions & no one stands up to him bc he has so much access/gatekeeper power.
And I'll add- as @farai notes- it matters not bc of the people, it matters bc of the content/the research. The research MATTERS. 2016 was about racial resentment and the convo was continually suppressed.
And having @TiffanyDCross even being willing to COVER this story is surprising to me, given the retitance I dealt with.

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