Hate heat map shows where racist, homophobic tweets come from

MSN ^ | 5/14/13

[pabianice]

Ever wondered where those hateful, discriminatory tweets on Twitter were coming from?

A group of researchers from the Floating Sheep project – who also mapped racist tweets surrounding President Barack Obama's re-election – have geotagged racist, homophobic and ableist (directed at disabled people) tweets in the United States and plotted them on an interactive map.

Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., looked up all the geotagged tweets in North America between June 2012 and April 2013, manually reading and coding the sentiment of each tweet to determine if the given word was used in a positive, negative or neutral way in a project called the "Geography of Hate."

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Exactly.
What a profound waste of time.

[cripplecreek]

Kinda funny. When you go to the site and actually zoom in most of the country lacks data or is bluer than it is read.

[freedumb2003]

They are using the age-old research axiom of “first draw the lines, then plot the points.”

[Red Badger]

Then FR must be on some list somewhere.....

[Salgak]

Compare to a pure population heat map. . .

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

According to the map, even the mountains are racist.

[sasquatch]

Hence, sandals.

[Red Badger]

Just as I suspected. where There are people....

[Red Badger]

Bears are tweeting hate.......and elks as well......

[cripplecreek]

Anybody who thinks no tweets using the dreaded “N” word ever come out of Detroit is an idiot. They use it in daily speech there.

[dennisw]

I didn’t know they had computers in Kentucky. Anyways it seems to be a hate tweet super power

[MrB]

They set the definitions, then run a “study” based on those definitions, then find out the “study” supports their definitions... sorta like evolution.

[FreeAtlanta]

When the tweet is about Obama, do they class it as racist or homophobic or both?

[listenhillary]

Some of those red blobs look like they’re...

Never mind.

[dagogo redux]

Darn!

Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t move my area into the red color.

Must try harder.

[9YearLurker]

Not really. Far more ‘hate tweets’ in West Virginia, for example, than in Boston, NY, or the big CA cities.

[9YearLurker]

Ha ha.

[FreeAtlanta]

The n word is most often used by blacks to other blacks (listen to rap music or black comedy some time). How do these brains account for that?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I thought this would have ended heat mapping

[Neoliberalnot]

To be expected when the hate criminals are the ones defining their opponents as hateful. go figure.