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You’re presenting the data for whether it’s okay to be happy about a political figure’s death, not whether it’s okay to cause one. There’s a section about this
by acdha 1y ago
You’re presenting the data for whether it’s okay to be happy about a political figure’s death, not whether it’s okay to cause one. There’s a section about this you should read starting with “YouGov's polling doesn't suggest that young people or liberals are more pro-violence in general”, and in particular the stark divide about self-defense. None of this is great, but it’s hardly surprising that a minority of younger people are more supportive of violence than people who have more life experience and fully-developed frontal cortexes.
- toomim 1y agoNice points! But as for "causing" violence, they also asked whether "political violence is ever justified", and the difference between left vs. right there was even more — 25% vs 3%.
- scoopdewoop 1y agoThe data in the link is clear that the opinions are always partisan based on the very last person shot at... that does track.
- toomim 1y agoWouldn't you expect the conservatives, then, to be the ones who say that violence is justified? Yet you're seeing the opposite — after the killing of a conservative, it's the left that says violence is justified. Furthermore, this trend on the left had been building for a while, which we see in surveys done before his killing: [1] https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899 https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899 [2] https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1836511736213704769 https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1836511736213704769
- wat10000 1y agoGiven the right's overall reaction to things like January 6th, I conclude that this number tells us more about what the left vs right thinks qualifies as political violence, not about their support for it.