• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Young people are divided on Israel/Gaza.

    Asked whether or not they sympathize with various groups involved in the war, we found that majorities of young Americans hold sympathy for the Israeli (52% sympathize) and the Palestinian people (56% sympathize), while they have far less sympathy for their governments (29% sympathize with the Israeli government; 32% with the Palestinian government). Seventeen percent (17%) expressed sympathy toward Hamas; for those who were presented with the information in a split sample that Hamas was an Islamist militant group, sympathy dipped to 13%.

    When young Americans are asked whether or not they believe Israel’s response so far to the October 7 attack by Hamas has been justified, a plurality indicates that they don’t know (45%). About a fifth (21%) report that Israel’s response was justified with 32% believing it was not justified.

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      7 months ago

      @Truth_Hurts

      An apparent bug in my instance prevents me from seeing some comments, but I saw yours via the “context” button on replies. Fuck your hive mind shit. Children are being murdered. That has nothing to do with anything other than children being murdered. Suck my ass.

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          6 months ago

          It’s the second icon beneath a comment if you look at your replies (on my instance, but I think the layout is standardized). I need it for about half of replies to make sense. Looks like this (for my instance):

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      I’d be careful with relying on poll cross tabs on issues of morality. The sample size is usually too small to tell right from wrong.

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        7 months ago

        Sure, but if Biden is guided by his moral code instead of politics then he has even less reason to care if young people are mad at him.

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      7 months ago

      This is correct, you are being downvoted for being right but the hive mind on here tends to support terrorism & murder as long as they are Muslim and the victims are not Muslim.

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        7 months ago

        This, and the opposite “wow feminists and LGBTQ+ people supporting people who would see them dead” are both woefully awful takes.