President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke from the White House on college protests happening across the nation in connection with the Israel-Hamas war.
    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year 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.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          The point is that some young people are mad about Biden’s policy, some likely support it, but the biggest group isn’t even paying attention.

          Politically, that’s grounds for maintaining the status quo.

          • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
            4·
            1 year ago

            These people don’t want to understand nuance. They’re polarized and want to be outraged. You can’t stop that.

            • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7·
              1 year ago

              ahh the nuances of supporting an active genocide. It’s strange that might be polarizing and cause folks to be outraged. Whaddaya gonna do? People need to understand that this is an election year /s

              • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
                4·
                1 year ago

                Ahhh. The freedom of making up your own headlines for the purpose of a shared hive is outrage.

                And the fact that this is an election year isn’t lost on anyone that knows propaganda when they see it.

                  • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
                    4·
                    1 year ago

                    Cool story. This same shit is happening elsewhere too. But sadly, no one cares much about that. Its a shame people only seem to care when they can use it to prop up an agenda.

                    Hell. Most people didn’t even know where Palestine was less than a year ago. But don’t let this get in the way of some good old fashioned election year outrage.

                    So predictably obvious. Yet we’re not allowed to point it out.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year 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.

      • Truth_Hurts@lemmus.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year 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.

        • Dojan@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

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

          • Crikeste@lemm.ee
            4·
            1 year ago

            Biden should get to work in fulfilling his constituents demands, then.

            You don’t get to use authoritarianism and then claim your opponent is the authoritarian. Terrible things are happening under Biden, but I should make the terrible things keep happening because if I don’t the terrible things will get worse? Americans are fucked.