4/Some on both the right and the left believe that young whites are being radicalized ("redpilled") by YouTube and other social media. Some claim that polls already show a shift to the right among young whites.https://nypost.com/2017/07/01/why-the-next-generation-after-millennials-will-vote-republican/ …
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15/So the idea that young whites are "redpilled", and are going to ride to the rescue of Trumpist or alt-right ideas, appears to be a fantasy. How about the other stereotype? Are young people a bunch of intolerant cultural leftists bent on destroying free speech? Let's see...
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16/By a margin of around 2 to 1, young people express negative opinions about recent protests and marches. Young whites are slightly more negative.pic.twitter.com/N477UqlRS8
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17/Most young people support allowing offensive speakers on campus.pic.twitter.com/GWEroWV2zl
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18/Among young white, Hispanic, and Asian people, there is overwhelming support for allowing offensive speakers on campus, while young black people are evenly divided on the question.pic.twitter.com/NK5mIVMgkf
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19/Finally, most young people are not as gender-fluid as the stereotypes would have you believe.pic.twitter.com/jrDKNzyM0X
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20/From this survey, I conclude that Generation Z looks a lot like you'd expect - a slightly, but not hugely, more liberal version of their Generation X parents.
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21/The idea that Generation Z is a bunch of "redpilled" YouTube Nazis is a fever dream, as is the idea that they are a bunch of intolerant fist-pumping campus SJWs. They're moderate liberals, like the two generations before them.
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22/People on the Right who think that the white half of Generation Z is going to ride to their rescue need to strongly reconsider. White Gen Zers are evenly divided, and lean slightly to the left. That cavalry is not coming.
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23/And Gen Z isn't going to usher in a leftist Cultural Revolution. But they *are* going to continue inching America very slowly to the left. (end)
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I’d venture that opinion is because they haven’t left home and met any people who are Muslim.
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