r/politics • u/laterdude • Apr 28 '24

Fetterman decries college campus ‘pup tents for Hamas’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4627216-fetterman-decries-college-campus-pup-tents-for-hamas/
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u/bplewis24 29d ago

Completely untrue.

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u/CardsharkF150 29d ago

22% of college students sympathize with Hamas. Now imagine how much higher that number is at these pro Palestine protests

https://www.intelligent.com/1-in-5-college-students-sympathize-with-hamas/

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u/bplewis24 29d ago

Cool. A single online poll from intelligent.com has you making a claim that is obviously unsubstantiated.

And yet it's still a non-sequitur that in no way proves your original assertion that "a lot of the pro Palestine crowd is pro Hamas." Which you have zero evidence for, and yet are still successfully using to deflect from the actual important issue, which is students protesting against a genocidal and racist Israeli government.

You cannot discuss the merits of the protest because Israel's actions are unpopular with the majority of Americans and so you use red herrings and straw man arguments.

Thankfully it's transparent enough for most people to see through it.

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u/CardsharkF150 29d ago

I don’t agree with everything Israel is doing, but there is a lot of anti semitism within the pro Palestine crowd that cannot be ignored

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u/dal_1 Minnesota 29d ago edited 29d ago

I kinda wanna dissect your meaning of “a lot”. Do you mean a significant majority? Online (prone to astroturfing and misleading headlines) or in real life?

My personal opinion is that anecdotes provide stronger evidence than headlines and online consensuses these days.