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African American

Recursion

(56,582 posts) Sun Apr 2, 2017, 03:54 AM Apr 2017

https://psmag.com/the-death-of-the-white-working-class-has-been-greatly-exaggerated-1c568d3e6b8c

Neat article, but I want to point out an enraging chart (the author is calling it out; this isn't a screw-up by Pacific Standard). So, before you read it, who can tell me what's wrong with these graphs:

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Black lives matter, except to journalists [View all] Recursion Apr 2017 OP

The literally *USE DIFFERENT SCALES* for black and white lives Recursion Apr 2017 #2

Yes - I read the story later The Polack MSgt Apr 2017 #3

that is intentionally misleading JI7 Apr 2017 #4