[QUOTE]Up to 10,000 racist tweets are sent every day, a new study has revealed. Researchers came to the conclusion after analyzing some 126,975 English-language tweets from across the globe over a nine-day period.
Roughly 160 million tweets were being sent in English per day at the time of the research being undertaken. In total, roughly 14,000 of those contained at least one of the slurs searched for, research by the UK's leading cross-party think-tank, Demos, showed.
"[I]The medium of Twitter provides an unprecedented source of data for studying slurs,[/I]" researchers emphasized in their report, with the ten most common terms found in the data set (in order of prevalence) ‘white boy’, ‘Paki’, ‘whitey’, ‘pikey’, ‘nigga’, ‘spic’, ‘crow’, ‘squinty’ and ‘wigga’.
According to the Anti-Social Media study, the top five slurs account for over 75 percent of relevant tweets. The most prevalent term in the data set, however, was ‘white boy’, appearing in 49 percent of tweets.
The researchers have also stated that of the 10,000 tweets employing racial and/or ethnic slurs every day, 7,000 are employing them in a non-derogatory fashion.
Slurs are most commonly used in a non-offensive, non-abusive manner: Between 50 and 70 percent of tweets were used to express in-group solidarity or non-derogatory description.
"[I]If casual use of slur terms is included in the human analysis (as in ‘pikey’ being interchangeable with ‘West Ham supporter’), the proportion rises to about 50 percent,[/I]"[URL="http://www.demos.co.uk/files/DEMOS_Anti-social_Media.pdf?1391774638"]the report stated.[/URL]
The researchers estimated a prevalence of about one in 55,000 tweets in English that are indicative of racial/ethnic prejudice on the part of the sender.
"[I]Of these apparently racially- or ethnically-prejudiced tweets, manual classification of 500 tweets sampled randomly from this group suggested that around 30 percent show casual use of slur terms, with the balance of tweets making comments that are more directly racially or ethnically prejudicial,[/I]" the analysis showed.
"[I]This suggests a prevalence of directed racially or ethnically prejudicial tweets of about one in 75,000 tweets in the English language,[/I]" Demos' report stated, adding that according their estimate, at the very most, fewer than 100 tweets are sent each day which might be interpreted as threatening any kind of violence or offline action.
"[I]Targeted abuse and specific threats of violence are violations of our rules, and users can report this type of content from within the Twitter application or at this link on our website,[/I]" a Twitter spokesperson told MailOnline.
According to the Anti-Social Media study, a number of people use Twitter for one-to-one communication, notwithstanding the fact that the communication is technically viewable by all. As a result, many essentially private conversations are enacted over the popular social network.
"[I]Our working hypothesis is that many strongly invective messages containing racially insulting phraseology are ‘snapshots’ from essentially private arguments.[/I]" Therefore, forming a judgment over whether a message reflects an insult in the heat of a personal argument or a more ‘considered’ racist attack requires more context than is typically available from a single tweet, researchers point out.
The topic of offensive language was last debated in the UK in January, when three men were charged with racial aggravation in connection with chanting the word ‘Yid’, meaning Jew, at two football matches. The word was allegedly used at Tottenham Hotspur matches against FC Sheriff and West Ham United; fans have ignored police warnings to stop using the word ‘Yid’ in their chants.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://rt.com/news/racist-slurs-twitter-report-004/"]http://rt.com/news/racist-slurs-twitter-report-004/[/URL]
that's... actually very little
Pretty surprised that it isn't more..
I was a bit confused about "squinty" at first, like why would you insult someone's visual defects, but now I get it :(
[QUOTE]The researchers have also stated that of the 10,000 tweets employing racial and/or ethnic slurs every day, 7,000 are employing them in a non-derogatory fashion.[/QUOTE]
Not surprising. I mean, 'nigga' is on their list and I don't think it's ever used as an insult.
[I]Only[/I] ten-thousand?
[QUOTE=Kljunas;43907755]Not surprising. I mean, 'nigga' is on their list and I don't think it's ever used as an insult.[/QUOTE]
They must have a really good algorithm.. or the researchers are on the brink of self harm.
That is a lot of tweets to read through to determine the context, and derive that the words use is non-derogatory.
Probably since I'm from Finland, but the only time I've heard the word "Crow" as a derogatory term is in Game of Thrones.
[QUOTE=booster;43907787]Probably since I'm from Finland, but the only time I've heard the word "Crow" as a derogatory term is in Game of Thrones.[/QUOTE]
I kind of spaced out through that entire series so I thought they were referring to literal crows.
I didn't even know crow is a racial slur
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It's weird to me because crows are fucking awesome
Probably less than in the OIFY
[QUOTE=download;43907764][I]Only[/I] ten-thousand?[/QUOTE]
And 7000 of them are used in a non-derogatory way.
So only 3000 are purposely being offensive.
Now imagine if they tried this on 4chan.
What about Youtube?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43907833]I didn't even know crow is a racial slur
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It's weird to me because crows are fucking awesome[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it refers to Jim Crow...that or the insult is literally because crows are black and black people are black. If it's the latter, that's a little silly.
[QUOTE=Suttles;43907972]Pretty sure it refers to Jim Crow...that or the insult is literally because crows are black and black people are black. If it's the latter, that's a little silly.[/QUOTE]
I've always thought it was connected with stereotypes from the jazz era and people insulting their culture as well as just that they were black. As in the sound a crow makes sounding like how an African spoke or sang.
Most of them are probably used in Jest and black people say nigga all the time anyway so?
[QUOTE=Suttles;43907972]Pretty sure it refers to Jim Crow...that or the insult is literally because crows are black and black people are black. If it's the latter, that's a little silly.[/QUOTE]
Probably this sort of thing:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35puUhqQJc[/media]
[quote]"The medium of Twitter provides an unprecedented source of data for studying slurs," researchers emphasized in their report, with the ten most common terms found in the data set (in order of prevalence) [B]‘white boy’[/B], ‘Paki’, ‘whitey’, ‘pikey’, ‘nigga’, ‘spic’, ‘crow’, ‘squinty’ and ‘wigga’.[/quote]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA[/media]
[editline]14th February 2014[/editline]
[quote]"The medium of Twitter provides an unprecedented source of data for studying slurs," researchers emphasized in their report, with the ten most common terms found in the data set (in order of prevalence) [B]‘white boy’[/B], ‘Paki’, ‘whitey’, ‘pikey’, ‘nigga’, ‘spic’, ‘crow’, ‘squinty’ and ‘wigga’.[/quote]
[video=youtube;qe1ScoePqVA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA[/video]
[editline]14th February 2014[/editline]
Why is posting being screwy, I can't post a video and it won't let me edit.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43909338]
[video=youtube;qe1ScoePqVA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA[/video]
Why is posting being screwy, I can't post a video and it won't let me edit.[/QUOTE]
remove s from 'https'
i bet tyler the creator's statuses make up a small fraction of these :v:
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43907833]I didn't even know crow is a racial slur
[editline]14th February 2014[/editline]
It's weird to me because crows are fucking awesome[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.rsdb.org/[/url]
more specifically
[url]http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=Crow[/url]
[QUOTE]Crow Blacks Relatively large black bird. Could also be a reference to "Jim Crow", a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, which later was used as the name of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South.
Crow Native Americans Used against other then Crows. Crows were scouts for the American Military or considered tradors by other Native Americans.[/QUOTE]
-shit late fuck-
If the words are primarily being used as non-derogatory terms of endearment, are the words themselves still offensive?
Whitey can mean smoking too much weed and a crow is some sort of bird.
Your study is invalid
Most of the uses of the derogatory words is probably done by the groups themselves.
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