Thread about how "Alt-Right" views are more popular than you would expect given how taboo they are: 1/ About half of whites prefer a relative marrying within their race:
2/ Most whites are not enthusiastic about having a close relative marry someone who is not white
3/ 8% of respondents say its definitely false that racial differences in IQ are completely environmental in origin 22% say its probably false sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
5/ 64% of Trump voters, (mostly white) say their race/ethnicity is at least somewhat important to their ethnicity occidentaldissent.com/2021/02/06/the…
6/ As of 2018, most republicans felt that whites becoming a minority was a bad thing: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
7/ Nearly half of whites say whites becoming minority will weaken American culture:
8/ From 2013, when using techniques to remove social desirability bias, almost a third of whites said they were uncomfortable with a majority non-white America. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
9/ Even the majority of non-whites don't view it as racist to want to restrict immigration to maintain their share of the population:
10/ From the Cato survey on immigration: 41% of native born whites worry that immigration is making them into a minority, and most people of both parties prefer it at least a little to live in a neighborhood where most people are the same race.
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11/ 1/3 of adults and half of republicans believe there is a "great replacement" of native born voters marketwatch.com/amp/story/poll…
12/ Similar numbers in the US and Canada: Thirty-seven per cent of respondents, agreed with the statement: “There is a group of people in this country who are trying to replace native-born Canadians with immigrants who agree with their political views.” nationalpost.com/news/canada/mi…
12/ Majority of Americans think it is at least somewhat true that there is an invasion at the Southern Border
13/ 31% of Americans say that "God intended America to be a promised land where European Christians could create a society that would be an example to the rest of the world" prri.org/research/chall…
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1/Short thread on race and Greek life. This legal scholar recently filed some FOIA requests for public universities to get some data on mainstream frats and sororities (IFC/Panhellenic) and this is what the data looks like overall:
2/ The IFC fraternities they looked at were slightly less white at around 72%. Everywhere greeks life was at least 15% whiter than the university population as a whole.
3/ Comparison between % of undergrads who are black vs panhellenic sororities. At the schools that turned over chapter level data almost half of chapters had no black members.
1/ Short thread. The WSJ asked business historians to rank the greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders in American history. Here are the racial demographics:
1/ Short thread. Meadow Pollack was an 18 year old student at Parkland High School with dreams of becoming an attorney. She was fatally shot as she draped her body over a younger student attempting to protect her.
2/ In the aftermath of the shooting, her father tried to figure out what policies lead to her death and teamed up with a researcher to write this book. amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Die…
3/ Here are some excerpts from this book. The book goes through all of the ways in which in which the shooting could have been prevented. If the shooter had a criminal record of one of the serious crimes that he committed he would not have been able to legally purchase a firearm.
1/ Short thread. What was the "best" year if you were to judge it solely by paying to attention to the news and not Pinkeresque metrics like child mortality in Lesotho?
2/ For the purpose of this thread we will look at years 1992 and onwards since this is when the cold war was over. We can immediately exclude years like 1994, 2001, 2004, and 2020 due to major world events.
3/ Next lets exclude every year with more than 100,000 combat deaths. That gets rid of 1999, 2013-2017 and 2021 onwards.