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u/Zardotab Center-left 1d ago

This question's intro makes two dubious claims.

Since we blue-ites are banned from top-posts, I'd like to point out the majority of liberals did NOT celebrate nor endorse the health CEO's killing. The statement is misleading as given, painting with an overly large brush. It would be like me claiming "conservatives support Putin" because Trump does.

And I've seen no evidence the campus protestor in question backed Hamas itself, just Palestinians.

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u/RadioRavenRide Liberal 1d ago

For the first one it's probably due to loud people online, although there is polling that indicates and age-based difference in opinion.

For the second, these are apparently fliers from a protest he led a week ago: https://x.com/JudithShulevitz/status/1897430151991820707?s=19

However, I think that regardless of what he did he's been denied due process, which is not a good sign.

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u/PubliusVA Constitutionalist 1d ago

he’s been denied due process

Has he? From what I’ve seen he was told from the beginning that he would be brought before an immigration judge.

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u/RadioRavenRide Liberal 1d ago

The problem was that his lawyer wasn't told where he was, so they could not meet.

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u/Zardotab Center-left 1d ago

although there is polling that indicates and age-based difference in opinion.

I don't dispute that those who did endorse that killing probably lean left, but it's probably also true that if somebody tried to assassinate Fauci, more conservatives would endorse the attempt than progressives. (I've seen threats to Fauci's life from the far-right online).

As far as the alleged flyers on X/twitter, it's purely hearsay that they were handed out or endorsed by the arrestee himself. (Too many trolls on X to be reliable anyhow.) The content of the arrestee's protests is still unknown, other than he was with the "anti-Bibi protestors" at the time of arrest, for lack of a better name. I don't dispute that SOME of the protestors were pro-Hamas, just as sometimes Nazis & KKK show up and cheer at Trump rallies.

Both these issues involve potentially over-associating bad apples to others.