Cenk Uygur
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Yelp Can Be Racist Too
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November 29, 2015
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5:43Now PlayingA new study reports that there is significant racial bias in Yelp reviews. The study found that restaurants in black neighborhoods are often referred to as "hood" or "ghetto," while that is not the case for restaurants in white neighborhoods. Grace Baldridge (Pop Trigger), Hasan Piker (Pop Crunch) and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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"Oh, hey, look at that: according to a new study, Yelp reviews appear to have a tendency to be racist, as well as all the other negative qualifiers you’d care to lob their way. Fancy that.
The study, published in the Journal of Consumer Culture, appears to show that Yelp reviewers—at least those in New York—tend to be much more critical of minority owned businesses. Authored at CUNY by Sharon Zukin, Scarlett Lindeman, and Laurie Hurson, it looked at over 7,000 Yelp reviews of trendier restaurants in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Greenpoint neighborhoods of Brooklyn that have opened in the past ten years, as well as focusing on the top ten best-reviewed restaurants in both locations. They found 1056 reviews that explicitly mentioned the neighborhood—720 of which were focused in the historically-black Bed-Stuy, compared to 336 in the traditionally Polish Greenpoint."
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