Students largely sympathize with Hamas, get most war info from TikTok: shocking survey

The New York Post ^ | May 11, 2024 | Deirdre Bardolf

[rmlew]

A new survey from the online magazine Intelligent found that a majority of students support the current protests on campus though admit they have little knowledge of the Israel-Hamas war and get most of their information on it from TikTok. Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

A majority of college students support the anti-Israel protests plaguing campuses across the country — and 15% of those surveyed who participated in one don’t believe Israel has a right to exist, a shocking new poll found.

[rmlew]

Younger Americans are getting their news from the Chinese Communist Party and those in college are being thoroughly indoctrinated in Cultural Marxism to hate America, Israel, and the West. They neither know nor care about the actual facts or figures. We are looking at a generation who have been taught that victimhood and pathologies are to be celebrated, truth is relative, and the search for objectivity to be a White right-wing cis-male talking point.

[NWFree]

They think HamAss is a Nazi First Aid Organization

[NWFree]

Students have been educated in STUPIDITY

[Red Badger]

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[Jamestown1630]

There aren’t many places young people can go for news even if they were inclined to search out something reliable. (I wonder what the people here consider a reliable news organization. Many here don’t even like Fox.)

[dfwgator]

All news organizations are suspect.

The problem is kids aren’t taught history anymore. They rely on media to get their view of the world.

[SpaceBar]

They get both their introduction to marxism and marching orders from their professors. TikTok is just considered homework.

[Jamestown1630]

I’m especially concerned that they aren’t taught Civics.
(How do you know that your rights are being violated if you don’t even know what they are or on what they are based?)

[adorno]

What more proof is needed in order to shut down TikTok? They’re poisoning young people’s minds. Just like the public school system is indoctrinating young people with complete communist crap. TikTok and the public school system: both run by people who hate America.

[dfwgator]

I miss Frank.

[Jamestown1630]

There seem to be good reasons to shut down TikTok; but there are lots of sites today that ‘poison young people’s minds’.

[Gary from Dayton]

It’s not just Tik Tok. Universities have been teaching this pro-Hamas version of the Israel - Hamas conflict for decades. I remember arguing with college students about this in the early days of the internet.

[adorno]

but there are lots of sites today that ‘poison young people’s minds

How many of those sites are run by a hostile country that would like to destroy the U.S.?

In any case, sites that do poison young people's lives need to have measures to prevent young people from joining, perhaps even to the age of 21, regardless of how much that sounds like violations of free speech. Free speech is not about supporting harmful speech or allowing the poisoning people's minds.

[Angelino97]

What more proof is needed in order to shut down TikTok?

The Deep State doesn't want to shut down TikTok. It wants a forced sale.

They want TikTok controlled by Silicon Valley oligarchs rather than by the CCP oligarchs. A changing of the censors.

[dfwgator]

How many of those sites are run by a hostile country that would like to destroy the U.S.?

I'd say that our government is already doing that for them.

[escapefromboston]

Americans should only get their news from American communists not red Chinese communists !

[Jamestown1630]

My point was that shutting down TikTok won’t stop the poisoning; and plenty of it is ‘home grown’.

[Vermont Lt]

There is nothing “shocking” about this. The conservative operatives should start watching this stuff to learn how to communicate to the up and coming generations.

Instead we talk about taking it away from the voters we will need in 5-10 years. That is a losing proposition.

[Thunder90]

Also keep in mind that these Anti Israel and Anti America protests are being funded by and stoked by Russian and Chinese intel agencies. Yes, Russia.

[adorno]

My point was that shutting down TikTok won’t stop the poisoning; and plenty of it is ‘home grown’.

Still should never allow a foreign power to do it to any of our citizens. The Chinese don't allow their citizens to express themselves through TikTok, so, why should we allow them with our people?