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geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 30 days ago

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geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 30 days ago
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    He was hugely popular, that’s… why they killed him?

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      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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      Have you tried looking up his popularity numbers?

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        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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          Have you tried looking up his popularity numbers?

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            I… Yes? What’s your point?

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              What did they say

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                … 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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                  Was he popular during his time? Sounds like you are doing historical revisionism.

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                    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.

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                  What did they say?

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