The hard numbers on Twitter racism, plus the Taxi Test

Twitter users post 10,000 racist slurs every day, study finds: "Just how racist is Twitter? About .00007 percent racist. ... Demos, a UK research group, has published a new study finding that about 1 in every 15,000 tweets contains a slur. That’s over 10,000 tweets each day. The most common phrase that turned up on the study? “White boy.”"

They do give some nuance, so if you want to quibble, read the short article first.

I was recently looking at the numbers for how hard it is for a black perso...