Re:Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
by raldi on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:06AM
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Huh? The claim was that the people who oppose development are predominantly upper middle class whites, not that a majority of white people oppose development.
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"belie (trasitive verb)
1 a : to give a false impression of: "Her gentleness belies her strength."
b : to present an appearance not in agreement with: "His manner and appearance belie his age."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belie
To say "it's mostly upper middle class whites" does give a false impression of what the study said.
Do you have other sources that support that statement?
But the chosen quote doesn't support that claim.