Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by dragonwriter on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:05AM
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> Just short of half of the country recently elected a President who openly spouted white-supremacist conspiracy theories.
He was elected by the votes of ~27% of eligible voters, and about ~20% of the population, not “just short of half the country”.
You could say it was a little less than half the people who felt it is worthwhile to vote in a system where votes matter so little that getting the most of them doesn't mean you win, but then the story is about alienation from the electoral system more than support or even indifference to racism.
He was elected by the votes of ~27% of eligible voters, and about ~20% of the population, not “just short of half the country”.
You could say it was a little less than half the people who felt it is worthwhile to vote in a system where votes matter so little that getting the most of them doesn't mean you win, but then the story is about alienation from the electoral system more than support or even indifference to racism.