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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by finfinfin on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:09PM (#28420217)
Greenwald is claiming that people are becoming less opposed to GCHQ’s spying due to their support for social issues like LGBT rights. I am asking whether there is any evidence to support that.
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by TechBro8615 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:38PM (#28420427)
Not sure about GCHQ, but in the US there is a stark left/right divide in support for intelligence agencies. Notably, if you could find similar polls from 2003, the polarization would be almost completely inverted.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/07/24/growing-part...

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by shlant on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:37PM (#28421452)
> the polarization would be almost completely inverted

And how are you going to go about proving causation between pinkwashing and support for intelligence agencies? Do you think maybe the Trump/Qanon rhetoric around the FBI/CIA/Deepstate might have had something to do with republicans opinion shift? (your own link alludes to that)

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