But what's really remarkable about the response to these shocks of people like him has been their inability to acknowledge that their own satisfied white-collar class might be part of the problem.
More than just a delightful romp through someone's actual, real-life misery, though, Serial is a bespoke, pastel dog whistle for anyone who absolutely cannot stand the self-satisfied "white liberal media" industrial complex the well-meaning yet perpetually enraged section of the internet that loves reminding people how evolved they are.
The recovered pixel is treated as black if Eq. (3) is satisfied and white if Eq. (4) is satisfied.
For example, The Times' recent poll of Chicago, conducted with the Kaiser Family Foundation, revealed that African Americans and Latinos are generally less satisfied than whites with police and city services, and they are markedly more likely to say that racial discrimination is a major problem.
Between Brexit and Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year, aka this Monday– it's not always been easy of late to sustain the self-satisfied, privileged-white-male grin that greets you in my byline picture.
Racism against blacks depends, in some part, on Asian complicity, as much as it relies (to paraphrase the writer Frank Guan) on the willingness of self-satisfied middle-class white liberals to pass the buck to "white trash".
The residuals were also examined for homogeneity of variance over the depth gradient using White's test (White 1980) and always satisfied homogeneity assumptions.
Not so in London, none of the above apologists, black or white, having satisfied critics including Paul Boateng and Lee Jasper, former adviser on equalities to Ken Livingstone.
Then there are those startling contemporary resonances, such as the moment when Elizabeth Kendall, a global flâneur, declares: "China is waking up, the self-satisfied complacency of the white race has received a shock".
The Obama phenomenon raises the question of what will happen when the Hispanic constituency, whose ethnic identity has also been carefully cultivated by the Democratic Party, decides it is no longer satisfied with black men or white women professing to speak for its distinct interests and runs "one of its own" in 2012 or 2016.
Asian respondents had significantly lower odds of being very satisfied relative to non-Hispanic white respondents (AOR =.33, p =.0077) in this subset of the data.
