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Nice points! But as for "causing" violence, they also asked whether "political violence is ever justified", and the difference between left vs. right there was
by toomim 1y ago
Nice 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.