{"id":179001,"date":"2018-06-21T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/21\/this-is-the-most-toxic-twitter-discussion-thread-ever\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:13:00","slug":"this-is-the-most-toxic-twitter-discussion-thread-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/21\/this-is-the-most-toxic-twitter-discussion-thread-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Most Toxic Twitter Discussion Thread Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;White Deaths Exceed Births in a Majority of U.S. States&quot; &#8211; from  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AppliedPopLab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AppliedPopLab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUYilH8APh\">https:\/\/t.co\/XUYilH8APh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jAZF8TUgex\">pic.twitter.com\/jAZF8TUgex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactTank\/status\/1009463167175491587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a fairly unsurprising bit of information, the older populations are cohorts are whiter, and the tail end of the baby-boom is over 50, so it&#8217;s not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>But the comments thread is the most unbelievable racist sh%$-show I have ever seen on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you see a bunch of animated GIFs of people eating popcorn.<\/p>\n<p>Click through if you dare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;White Deaths Exceed Births in a Majority of U.S. States&quot; &#8211; from @AppliedPopLab https:\/\/t.co\/XUYilH8APh pic.twitter.com\/jAZF8TUgex &mdash; Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) June 20, 2018 This is a fairly unsurprising bit of information, the older populations are cohorts are whiter, and the tail end of the baby-boom is over 50, so it&#8217;s not a surprise. But &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,367,398],"class_list":["post-179001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-demographics","tag-internet","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}