Zach Goldberg
PhD student/Wokeness Studies scholar researching the 'Great Awokening'
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How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening
Tablet Magazine - Tablet Magazine 8d 24 tweets
Years before Trump’s election the media dramatically increased coverage of racism and embraced new theories of racial consciousness that set the stage for the latest unrest
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Zach Goldberg My long overdue (and warning: long) article on the media’s role in the sowing of racial conflict and the spread of wokeness is finally here. Check it out 8d
StoryWrangler - Twitter Ngram Search
Storywrangling.org 17d 3 tweets
Visualize timeseries of word usage on Twitter, curated by the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center.
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Zach Goldberg 1/n The Great Awokening: Twitter edition Credits to the folks at for compiling and sharing these data. 16d
Majority of Voters Say U.S. Society Is Racist as Support Grows for Black Lives Matter
Sabrina Siddiqui - WSJ 24d 10 tweets
Americans of all races and age groups share concerns about racial discrimination nearly two months after George Floyd’s killing, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds, with 56% of voters saying American society is racist.
Why Democracy Fund is Declaring Independence From Bipartisanship — Democracy Fund
Democracy Fund 50d 9 tweets
For the past six years, Democracy Fund has distinguished itself as an organization that has sought common ground between the left and right. We have worked hard to engage ideologically diverse partners and have pursued strategies that could garner...
Zach Goldberg Following the Floyd incident, The Democracy Fund's Voter Study Group--whose data has featured in many of my analyses--issued a statement renouncing its erstwhile commitment to bipartisanship in favor of wokeness-ship. 43d
The Old Man in the Cave - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 49d 1 tweets
Zach Goldberg While we're on the topic of Twilight Zone (which often featured subtle moral messaging): is the 'Old Man in the Cave' episode (of the original series) essentially a principled defense of traditional conservatism.. or is it just me? 49d
Everyones A Little Bit Racist
YouTube 732d 2 tweets
Everyones A Little Bit Racist by avenue Q
Zach Goldberg 'Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes, doesn't mean we go around committing hate crimes'... 49d
The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution - Quillette
Quillette 51d 21 tweets
Statues toppled, buildings renamed, curricula “decolonized,” staff fired. The protests following George Floyd’s killing have emboldened cultural revolutionaries in America and Europe. The iconoclasts are changing minds, and could be in a position to...
Afraid of injustice? Justice sensitivity is linked to general anxiety and social phobia symptoms
Sciencedirect.com 67d 1 tweets
Justice sensitivity (JS), the tendency to perceive and adversely respond to injustice, is related to externalizing problem behavior. Less is known abo…
Zach Goldberg Here's one recent/interesting paper 67d
Perceptions of U.S. Social Mobility Are Divided (and Distorted) Along Ideological Lines - John R. Chambers, Lawton K. Swan, Martin Heesacker, 2015
SAGE Journals 73d 1 tweets
The ability to move upward in social class or economic position (i.e., social mobility) is a defining feature of the American Dream, yet recent public-opinion p...
Zach Goldberg 14/n This question remains considerably under-researched, though (in fact, the above data is the only I can find that directly gets at the question). Other studies more generally on perceptions of inequality are suggestive though 73d
Better Off Than We Know: Distorted Perceptions of Incomes and Income Inequality in America - John R. Chambers, Lawton K. Swan, Martin Heesacker, 2014
SAGE Journals 73d 1 tweets
Three studies examined Americans’ perceptions of incomes and income inequality using a variety of criterion measures. Contrary to recent findings indicating tha...
Zach Goldberg 14/n This question remains considerably under-researched, though (in fact, the above data is the only I can find that directly gets at the question). Other studies more generally on perceptions of inequality are suggestive though 73d
Chicago police release extended videos of officer shooting unarmed subway rider in the back
Cbsnews.com 77d 4 tweets
Ariel Roman was shot twice in February after officers tried to stop him for violating a city ordinance by walking between subway cars. The additional footage was released months later part of the investigation.
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Zach Goldberg Oh look. Here’s another obscure incident that happened over a month that I never heard about until this moment 76d
US Public Perceptions of an Intelligence Quotient Test Score Gap Between Black Americans and White Americans - LJ Zigerell,
SAGE Journals 77d 1 tweets
Intelligence quotient (IQ) is a common measure of intelligence that associates with many important life outcomes. Research over several decades has indicated th...
Zach Goldberg 2/n Original study . Credits to for uploading the datasets. 77d
Title not found
Psyarxiv.com 125d 7 tweets
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Zach Goldberg 1/n 'Virtuous victims': recent paper (which includes a large series of studies) finds that people tend to perceive victims of immoral acts as more moral than both victims of accidents and non-victims. 77d
US Public Perceptions of an Intelligence Quotient Test Score Gap Between Black Americans and White Americans - LJ Zigerell,
SAGE Journals 77d 2 tweets
Intelligence quotient (IQ) is a common measure of intelligence that associates with many important life outcomes. Research over several decades has indicated th...
Zach Goldberg 3/n Full paper here 77d
Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump
Gallup.com 667d 14 tweets
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
Zach Goldberg Actually, it's a tiny bit better. 'Only' 92% approve as of May 1-13, according to Gallup. But that's also higher than it was in previous years of his presidency (when approval was in the 80s) 78d
PsycNET
Psycnet.apa.org 372d 3 tweets
Zach Goldberg 4/n For a study with a very similar pattern of results, see (experiments 3 and 4 specifically) 79d
Opinion: It looks like Amy Cooper is a liberal. That's important
The Independent 79d 21 tweets
When you jump to assume she's a MAGA campaigner or a Trump supporter due to her actions, you erase the very real problem of white liberal racism
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Zach Goldberg Wasn’t this obvious? 79d
The Threat of Virality: Digital Outrage Combats the Spread of Opposing Ideas - ProQuest
Search.proquest.com 79d 1 tweets
Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.
Zach Goldberg 1/n There needs to be a new 'whitesplaining' term for when white progressives insist to skeptical non-whites that 'racism is everywhere' (Interesting dissertation btw ) 79d
When status differences are illegitimate, groups' needs diverge: Testing the needs‐based model of reconciliation in contexts of status inequality
Wiley Online Library 84d 1 tweets
The present paper extends the needs‐based model of reconciliation to contexts marked by status inequalities rather than by overt intergroup aggression. Specifically, we investigated whether and when ...
Zach Goldberg There's a bunch of research on this in the group-based emotions literature. Here's another paper I was recently reading that provides a useful expositional framework 84d
Title not found
Psyarxiv.com 94d 8 tweets