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Was a man arrested for saying "We like bacon"?
There is a clip going around where a man yells "We like bacon", and being arrested for public disorder. This has been covered by The Telegraph and Sky News Australia.
Given that the video ...
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In 1964, were some prospective voters in Louisiana asked to "spell backwards, forwards"?
This "impossible literacy test" from Louisiana, circa 1964, is making the rounds again:
There are a total of thirty questions of varying difficulty, including ambiguous ones (e.g. "...
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Was Nikki Haley disqualified from a beauty pageant because of race?
2024 Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley just said this to NBC News:
If you want to know what it was like growing up, I was disqualified from a beauty pageant because I wasn’t white or ...
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Were the Finns ever considered as the Negroes of the North?
The Finnish member of parliament Teemu Keskisarja recently made headlines by claiming in a parliament speech:
Suomen rasismihistorian lyhyt tiedonanto:
...Esivanhempamme eli Pohjolan neekerit olivat ...
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Were evangelicals rallied around abortion in 1978, as a substitute for segregation?
The June 20, 2019 edition of NPR’s “Throughline” podcast “examines how the issue of abortion became a defining political issue for evangelicals.”
In it, the hosts talk about evangelicals initially ...
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Did Sasha Johnson state “the white man will not be our equal but our slave"?
As the news of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson being shot became public in May 2021, social media contained images which allegedly show a tweet posted by her stating:
the white man will not ...
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Did a US school test ask this question about norms in Chinese culture?
OpenDemocracy.net presents this as a question that has recently been asked of 12-year-old children in a US school:
It is described so:
A IS FOR ANTI-ASIAN
A worried Korean American woman recently ...
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Are women who have consulted a social worker banned from most maternity wards in Christchurch?
A Kiwi friend alerted me to the article 'At-risk' women forced to birth at Christchurch Women's Hospital, or at home at Stuff.co.nz, published November 7, 2020.
The article seems to claim that women ...
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Did Priyamvada Gopal say "White lives don't matter"?
I'm seeing many different sources saying that Cambridge professor Priyamvada Gopal said "White lives don't matter" in an interview recently.
Is there some greater context I don't know that ...
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Can 1 in 1,000 black men expect to be killed over the course of their lifetime by the police?
In Last Week Tonight of June 8th, 2020, John Oliver mentions that 1 in 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by the police.
At 5:05 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY
I have tracked the ...
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Did H. Ross Perot call Maya Lin an “Egg Roll?”
Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was chosen after a blind competition in the early 1980s.
There were many critics of her design and the design’s realization was an uphill battle at ...
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Are white and non-white police officers equally likely to kill black suspects?
Well, that's the conclusion of a 2018 US study, as reported in the press:
"White officers do not kill black suspects at a higher rate compared with nonwhite officers," concludes a research ...
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Were there no "white" people in Virginia between 1619 and 1679?
The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen
When the first Africans arrived ...
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Is the Implicit Association Test effective at determining an individual's biases?
A recent post on the Stack Overflow blog, Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change., discusses the problems that members of marginalized groups may experience when ...
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Has lower IQ been linked to Racism? [duplicate]
This article claims that a study links lower IQ with conservatism and racism. It specifically claims that low IQ makes one more likely to be conservative which, in turn, makes one more likely to be ...
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Did Antifa distribute this pamphlet?
This is the pamphlet I'm talking about:
The evil white race must be destroyed!
The white racist and their Heeb masters must be purged from the face of the earth!
The children of the white ...
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Do a third of Trumps twitter followers also follow white supremacists?
A number of articles like this one Have refereed to a study which claims that over 1/3 of trump's followers on twitter are followers of 'white supremacists'.
Is this claim true? are 1/3 of all of ...
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Do blacks in the US get arrested more often for drug usage despite using drugs at the same rate as whites?
Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk says in this YouTube video that
The studies show that as well. Blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate but black people get arrested way more often for it.
Is it ...
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Were 14 million abortions performed on African Americans from 1973 to 2006?
The 2006 book Freed Indeed: The Spiritual Wealth of Black America at page 45 says:
since 1973 over fourteen million black babies have been aborted ... at fourteen million, these abortions exceed ...
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Was Donald Trump's father a member of the KKK?
This tumblr post has garnered over 13,000 notes:
The post makes 3 main claims:
Donald Trump's father was a member of the KKK for over 70 years
He was arrested in 1927 at a KKK event
He was ...
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Has ISIS and Al Qaeda sent out a message telling their terrorists to only attack white people?
Rush Limbaugh stated on the Rush Limbaugh show that ISIS and Al Qaeda sent out a memo to their people saying to not attack minorities, only white people. Their reasoning? If they kill minorities, ...
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In the UK, are young white men the most derided ethnic/gender/age group?
A month, or so, ago this YouGov study was trending on FB and attracting some controversy.
The most derided ethnic group in Britain: young white men
YouGov data from 48 separate surveys reveals that ...
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Is this a genuine 1965 literacy test?
According to the Michigan-based Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, this is an excerpt of the text of the 1965 Alabama Literacy Test:
If it were proposed to join ...
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Is it legal to shoot groups of Native Americans in some US States?
At a young age, I remember being told by a teacher that if there are five or more native Americans in a group, it is legal to shoot them, because it is considered a war party. The teacher told me that ...
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Did a group of U.S. women propose to send black kids instead of dogs to space?
In his 1964 book "The third side of the dollar", Lithuanian journalist Albertas Laurinčiukas writes:
After Laika's flight, a group of women from Mississippi, U.S., sent a letter to the ...
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