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.

1/ Short thread. The WSJ asked business historians to rank the greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders in American history. Here are the racial demographics: 2/ Here are the sex demographics:

1/ Thread. Relive the major events of the 2010s online culture war.
White girl cancelled for rant about Asians in the library: 2/ First slutwalk.

1/ Domestic net migration out of Sydney and Toronto.
In the 90s major US cities gained 2.8 million immigrants and lost 3.4 million Americans. 2/ Immigrants are not subject to the same economic forces since they often arrive through chain migration.

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…

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?

https://twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/2004818203600724433

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.

Only white men voted on net for Cuomo: Jews voted against Mamdani 2 to 1:

1/ Short thread. Mostly a joke but not 100%. Over the Hedge is a 2006 Dreamworks film about anthropomorphic animals. However if you look deeper it is actually an allegory for Mexican immigration.

https://twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1978616298390348110

2/ The film starts out with RJ a raccoon stealing food from a hibernating bear. The food gets destroyed and the bear tells RJ if he doesn't recover the food in the next week he will be eaten.

1. Thread. Relive the year after the craziness of 2020 in 20 moments. 1/6/21: Storming of the capital. 2. 1/27/21: Douglass Mackey arrested.

1. Thread. Relive the racial reckoning in 50 moments.
2/23/20: Ahmaud Arbery Shot. 2. 3/13/20: Breonna Taylor killed.

The validated voter survey from Pew is finally out. Looks like Trump won Hispanic men and made improvements among other minorities. Biden won men 18-49 while Trump won this demographic back in 2024.

Some polling of Iranians from fall of 2024. Most Iranians say Iran's foreign policy is a cause of economic problems: And that it doesn't advance the well-being of ordinary citizens.

Most Israeli Jews (56%) support expulsion of Israeli Arabs: This seems to be slightly higher than it was in 2016:

Almost 20% of young black men are NEETs: Most male and female NEETs aren't disabled, don't have kids, and aren't looking for work

People say illegal immigrants, trans people black people and muslims face the most discrimination. It is worth pointing out that this list only loosely correlated to economic standing Muslims make a decent amount and gay men earn more than straight men. By party. There is most agreement about Jews and ruralites.

New chart from David Waldron. 8th and 10th grade boys are getting less feminist. tldr this is true regardless of how much people game, watch videos, hang out with friends or date. Religion seems to have some explanation. By social media usage:

Since this came up yesterday, women are more supportive of trans rights than men. The 13 point gap is larger than what much of the polling on abortion finds. Feminists are also very supportive:

Short thread about the numerous errors in the post linked below.
First she cites the work of Paul Dolan claiming that married women are less happy. This is due to a misreading of the ATUS. @CathyReisenwitz If you are honest you will correct this.

https://twitter.com/CathyReisenwitz/status/1909985446152589417

Obviously we don't know how much is causal, but both married men and women are happier.

Some opinions I have that are left wing or otherwise possibly unpopular or contrarian in this sphere:
1. Toxic masculinity is real (but so is toxic femininity). 2. Depending on the definition, the idea of rape culture doesn't seem that unreasonable.

There is an interesting subreddit called r/BarbaraWalters4Scale (referencing the fact that Walters, MLK and Anne Frank were all born in 1929) with a interesting time comparisons. For example:
>Joe Biden was born closer to Lincolns presidency than his own.

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1865829819461808219

>Obama is the only president to serve under the same flag he was born under
>Jimmy Carter lived through 41% of the independent US
>Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire
>Hitler was alive when the big chungus cartoon was released

The vast majority of those frequently rejected are men: 35% of single women say that all or most men would sexually take advantage of women if they had the chance.