• Enver_McTim [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      A lot of people also aren’t falling for it since they remember 01

      I’m sure a lot of people can see that, but it’s also kinda ironic how people who weren’t even old enough to truly remember post-9/11 are far more on the right side of history on this lol

      Like I’m 20, no one my age was even born on 9/11 and yet it definitely seems like the majority of people my age support Palestine, and actively supporting Israel almost seems fringe. Meanwhile most 30-35+ year old Americans who should be seeing the parallels seem like proud zionists

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          I only found one poll measuring 18-24 year olds (Harvard-Harris) and they phrased the questions in a really manipulative way; like you can immediately infer support for Israel would be lower if they didn’t force you to pick between “Israel” and “Hamas” (and when you don’t even have a “no answer” option, people who are generally pro-Palestine but don’t want to openly side with Hamas will just… not do the poll). And yet pretty surprisingly, half of 18-24 yos sided with Hamas?

          All this poll tells me is gen z is relatively based and millennials are also a bit more based than I assumed

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      1 year ago

      Wasn’t the closest to mainstream pushback in 2002-2003 when Bill Maher went on a CNN-show and said that you couldn’t really call Al-Qaeda cowards, because they actually believed in their cause strongly enough to die for it? And Bill maher was IMMEDIATELY shitcanned IIRC.