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Its a good start but this is maybe like 5-10% of Xenophobia. Border protectionism is not good but there's a huge amount of systemized xenophobia thats unrelated

Its a good start but this is maybe like 5-10% of Xenophobia. Border protectionism is not good but there's a huge amount of systemized xenophobia thats unrelated to borders.

starostaabe 7y ago
Thank you, and yes we're definitely missing many different types of xenophobia, it's a complex issue. Border protectionism seems to be on the rise now given the political situation and probably the most common today. So hopefully it'll be interesting to use.
- bifrost 7y ago
  One thing I hadn't considered - with Twitter's limited post size, you can do better statistical analysis of word usage. If someone mentions race or racial characteristics an unusual number of times - you can probably count the tweet as being racist or "racialist". There was a recent HN thread that I was commenting on where another commenter mentioned that the author of the article discussed mentioned race and national origin a certain number of times. While it was relevant to the story I could also see where it might not have been for another type of article. You'd basically need to apply some NLP and some sort of geopolitical filter...
  - starostaabe 7y ago
    Yes, I followed until the part about how the geopolitical filter would help. I might not be understanding well since I don't know what the story was about. Could you please elaborate on that?
    - bifrost 7y ago
      It was an American article discussing how an Iranian sourced/proxied attack had XYZ effects. The author mentioned the attack was traced/lost in Iran. Talking about Iran was called a cultural attack, however since this had more to do about Iran's lack of cooperation with American law enforcement it was actually somewhat relevant. If the article was talking about Iranians as being bad people simply for being Iranian, that would have been a cultural attack.

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Its a good start but this is maybe like 5-10% of Xenophobia. Border protectionism is not good but there's a huge amount of systemized xenophobia thats unrelated

by bifrost 7y ago

Its a good start but this is maybe like 5-10% of Xenophobia. Border protectionism is not good but there's a huge amount of systemized xenophobia thats unrelated to borders.

starostaabe 7y ago
Thank you, and yes we're definitely missing many different types of xenophobia, it's a complex issue. Border protectionism seems to be on the rise now given the political situation and probably the most common today. So hopefully it'll be interesting to use.
- bifrost 7y ago
  One thing I hadn't considered - with Twitter's limited post size, you can do better statistical analysis of word usage. If someone mentions race or racial characteristics an unusual number of times - you can probably count the tweet as being racist or "racialist". There was a recent HN thread that I was commenting on where another commenter mentioned that the author of the article discussed mentioned race and national origin a certain number of times. While it was relevant to the story I could also see where it might not have been for another type of article. You'd basically need to apply some NLP and some sort of geopolitical filter...
  - starostaabe 7y ago
    Yes, I followed until the part about how the geopolitical filter would help. I might not be understanding well since I don't know what the story was about. Could you please elaborate on that?
    - bifrost 7y ago
      It was an American article discussing how an Iranian sourced/proxied attack had XYZ effects. The author mentioned the attack was traced/lost in Iran. Talking about Iran was called a cultural attack, however since this had more to do about Iran's lack of cooperation with American law enforcement it was actually somewhat relevant. If the article was talking about Iranians as being bad people simply for being Iranian, that would have been a cultural attack.