• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Follow up question: why in the fuck would the people writing this ASSUME black voters are into crypto? Never touched it, and nobody in my family has either.

    When did this become some of an extra racist fucking thing?

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      I think some study came out that said something like 20% of black men owned crypto and now we have this. No idea how it was measured.

      Okay - a little digging and it does seem backed up by self-reported surveys. Best explanation I could find is https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/payments-system-research-briefings/the-cryptic-nature-of-black-consumer-cryptocurrency-ownership/

      Basically, from the surveys, it would appear that Black adults own more crypto than whites, with Black men edging slightly higher. It looks to be on the order of 20% with other groups trailing by a few percentage points.

      Disappointed in the Harris campaign for leaning into this, as it seems to be all self-reported survey data and hardly something to build a policy on. Also crypto is stupid, but that’s just my opinion.