r/SpaceXBets • u/Battlemania420 • 9h ago

Image Wonderful things are happening now that the Russian Bot Farms are gone.

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u/Inner_Agency_5680 9h ago

So is he is defrauding advertisers with fake stats?

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u/chookshit 9h ago

Can someone put the real stats in this post. I don’t know how to look for them

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u/mtaw 3h ago

There are no 'real stats' because the Belgian census does not register 'race'.

What it does tell you is the Brussels capitol region is about 2/3 Belgian citizens and 1/3 non-citizens. And that about 44% of the total have a non-EU immigrant background. "Immigrant background" is defined by the person or at least one of their parents being born abroad. Neither of these correlate directly with skin color (after all, white Englishmen now count as non-EU immigrants), but the largest immigrant group is Moroccans - do they count as 'white'? What about someone half-Moroccon, half-Flemish?

In any case, even if you counted everyone born outside the EU or with at least one parent born outside the EU as 'non-white', you'd still only be halfway to the claimed figure. So no, it's blatantly false.