The new homosexual moralism: disagree you're branded a hater
An interactive map released this week by U.S. geography students shows what regions in America originate the highest number of racist and homophobic posts on Twitter . The number of tweets with 'hateful' sentiments in a certain area is expressed in a range of colours from light blue to bright red, a style known as a heat map. In this case, the students have called it a "hate map." Hate Map - where most Homophobic, Racist tweets come from. users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate… http:// pic.twitter.com/eFxp7xfOzB CHRIS PIRILLO @CHRISPIRILLO · 4 DAYS AGO REPLY RETWEET FAVORITE Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., incorporated data from 150,000 tweets, focusing on 10 hateful words, as part of a larger project called "G eography of Hate ." The students read each tweet individually to make sure the content was indeed an expression of hatred, and not some other use of the key words investigated. However, it is the stu...