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Re:Social Cooling by johnmaguire on Sunday October 05, 2025 @01:05PM (#45483254)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/#s4

> When compared to individuals associated with a right-wing ideology, individuals adhering to a left-wing ideology had 68% lower odds of engaging in violent (vs. nonviolent) radical behavior (b = −1.15, SE = 0.13, odds ratio [OR] = 0.32, P < 0.001).

Re:Social Cooling by toomim on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:08PM (#45485274)
That's using ancient data from... 1948:

> We included individuals whose public exposure occurred between 1948 and 2018.

The last 8 years of politics have been very very abnormal. And in today's data, the "very liberal" approve of political violence at a rate of 24% vs. 3% for the "very conservative":

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52960-charlie-kir...

This ^^^ is the troubling statistic, and there's a 7x difference between the left and the right.

Re:Social Cooling by acdha on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:15PM (#45485343)
You’re presenting the data for whether it’s okay to be happy about a political figure’s death, not whether it’s okay to cause one. There’s a section about this you should read starting with “YouGov's polling doesn't suggest that young people or liberals are more pro-violence in general”, and in particular the stark divide about self-defense. None of this is great, but it’s hardly surprising that a minority of younger people are more supportive of violence than people who have more life experience and fully-developed frontal cortexes.
Re:Social Cooling by toomim on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:08PM (#45485720)
Nice points!

But as for "causing" violence, they also asked whether "political violence is ever justified", and the difference between left vs. right there was even more — 25% vs 3%.

Re:Social Cooling by scoopdewoop on Sunday October 05, 2025 @08:18PM (#45486440)
The data in the link is clear that the opinions are always partisan based on the very last person shot at... that does track.
Re:Social Cooling by toomim on Sunday October 05, 2025 @09:58PM (#45486943)
Wouldn't you expect the conservatives, then, to be the ones who say that violence is justified?

Yet you're seeing the opposite — after the killing of a conservative, it's the left that says violence is justified.

Furthermore, this trend on the left had been building for a while, which we see in surveys done before his killing:

[1] https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899

[2] https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1836511736213704769

Re:Social Cooling by wat10000 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @08:43PM (#45486580)
Given the right's overall reaction to things like January 6th, I conclude that this number tells us more about what the left vs right thinks qualifies as political violence, not about their support for it.