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I wonder which generation is most likely to utilize hate speech....Disturbing....
Columnist David French writes:
On Friday, Kevin Wallsten, a political science professor at California State, Long Beach, wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the disturbing findings of a study he conducted. Luckily, Wallsten found, nearly 80 percent of Americans still believe that violence is “never acceptable” to stop free speech. Sadly, this percentage goes down in every generation — 93 percent of baby boomers and 86 percent of Gen X-ers reject violence, but only 71 percent of millennials and 58 percent of Gen Z-ers agree.
This statistic helps explain why there were people who actually celebrated Kirk’s death — they have rejected free speech so thoroughly that they were happy to see a bullet stop a conversation. They believe Kirk’s words merited a violent response and relished in the deadly results. The texts of the shooting suspect — in which he allegedly told his roommate, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out” — suggest that he was one such person.
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