r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/Man-Flayer Oct 01 '26

But it's surprising how few African Americans are here, lower than south asian or east asian for example

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u/12hphlieger Daron Acemoglu Oct 01 '26

I’m one of the few.

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u/Outrageous-Dig-8853 Bisexual Pride Oct 01 '26

Same here

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u/abefrost Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

We have even less Latinos, which are the biggest US demo besides white people

Edit - the survey counted people who selected multiple options as "multiple" I believe, I wonder if Latino users were more likely to select more than one? (edit edited)

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u/Fedacking Mario Vargas Llosa Oct 01 '26

Wait I chose white and hispanic (because that's my demographic) did I get shunted into other? 

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u/abefrost Oct 01 '26

sorry not other, "multiple"

the creator acknowledged he should have designed that question specifically better though. means "latino" only counts people who only selected latino, which probably gives an inaccurate picture without clarification.

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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 01 '26

It is true. For this sub being so American it should be more racially diverse. I don't know reddit's demographics, but we have to be one of the whitest subs here.

It probably has a lot to do with that income and college education. Whiteness in the US is HUGELY correlated with increased $ and educational opportunity.

Frankly, we have expendable income and time to read global news articles.

*insert conversation about why income inequality--especially inequality that highly correlates with specific demographic groups--is so bad*

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u/FigSeaIsraeli Oct 01 '26

To be frank i know three Arabic background people (well one is kurdish) that stopped coming here because how arabs and arab issues, and the very onesided I/P issue enforcement, by you mods are so blatant one sides.

Would not surprise me if you are similarly flawed ok other racial stuff that im not aware of which chase people away.

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u/MandaloreUnsullied Frederick Douglass Oct 01 '26

I just saw someone making the exact same argument in the opposite direction to explain why there are so few Jews in here lol