Nathan: Have you had a chance to actually read @owasow's paper? Past time to correct your egregious mischaracterization of excellent research (by a black scholar, too!) Maybe also apologize for comparing him to Charles Murray (!!) and erroneously marshal MLK (!!!) in the process?
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Replying to @zeynep @NathanJRobinson and
"Further, scholarly debates continue over how race and genetics determine intelligence, health, and other major life outcomes (Devlin 1997, Duster 2005, Hernstein & Murray 1994)." Quoted from Sen & Wasow (2016), retrieved from http://www.omarwasow.com/wasow_sen_2016_annurev.pdf …
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Replying to @caribouwireless @NathanJRobinson and
Any more pathetic trolling today from papers you haven't read? You lot have too much time on your hands but not enough of anything else.
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Replying to @zeynep @NathanJRobinson and
“These findings suggest that the 'transformative egalitarian' coalition identified by Rustin (1965), King and Smith (2005) and others was fragile but, in the absence of violent protests,would likely have won the presidential election of 1968.”
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Replying to @caribouwireless @zeynep and
A presidential election in which the incumbent President withdrew candidacy over his prosecution of the Vietnam War and whose Secretary of Defense interpreted affirmative action as a way to funnel Black infantry into a killing machine.
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Replying to @caribouwireless @zeynep and
A presidential election in which the Republican opponent committed treason to undermine the Vietnam peace talks and who cut a deal with the Dixiecrats to build what he saw as a bulletproof white majority.
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Replying to @caribouwireless @zeynep and
All this in a media environment where agenda-setting was largely driven by advertisers who were for the war and against disturbing the consensus of reconciling with Jim Crow.
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Replying to @caribouwireless @zeynep and
All this assumes that Black freedom activists are in some way atomized individual entrepreneurs that are seeding agendas in an attempt to maximize some metric of coverage in a medium which historically orchestrated violence against Black people to sell advertising.
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Replying to @caribouwireless @NathanJRobinson and
I suggest a focus on the word "findings".
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Replying to @zeynep @NathanJRobinson and
First, I have to linger over "One concern with estimating causal effects of protests is that disruption activity might not occur at random" meaning here that it is a relatively recent discovery that Black people do not behave at random.
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Dude, this is embarrassing. It means he needs to control for correlations, which are explained, which is done through the rainfall treatment. You don't have to pretend to understand things you do not.
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Replying to @zeynep @NathanJRobinson and
The specific week we're looking at here -- the week with the violence in it, as opposed to rainfall -- is 4--10 Apr 1968. You know, the week where this land of milk and honey put a bullet in Martin Luther King. That's some violence right there.
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Replying to @caribouwireless @zeynep and
Such serious violence that I wonder which violence affected our disturbed Democratic voters. Which violence coming through the TV screen had the impact? Local coverage of uprisings after the 4th might vary, but EVERYBODY knew, as Nina sang, that "the King of Love is dead."
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