• zqps@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      After decades of trying to appease white liberals, he shifted away from that reformist stance to a more radical approach. That’s why they killed him.

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        22 days ago

        Big-C lenses apply to epochal statistics and northern liberals don’t like being confronted with nuance. If I’m guessing your meaning correctly.

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                22 days ago

                … you did read the thing about epochal statistics right? I think we’ve been over this already, you can’t really be arguing statistical literalism about martin luther king.

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                    22 days ago

                    A third response is still valid, though. That concept is the cornerstone of everything from data science to regular science. Removing something as sensitive as a poll from it’s context is to remove all meaning from it, but again, he was indeed hugely popular. Even the gallup polls at the time support this. I’m really lost as to what you’re getting at.