Comment by blue_dice on 25/06/2020 at 22:11 UTC

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View submission: i feel totally cynical about what's happening right now

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I don't doubt that there is a an apolitical section of the population that agrees that embedded anti-blackness and its manifestation in policing circles is an issue, but I would be hard pressed to believe that this constitutes a majority.

If you use support for the BLM as a proxy for these views then it certainly does. Polling has found that BLM now has majority support in America, which was definitely not the case before the current protests (-5 net favourability in 2017 vs +28 net favourability now).

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Comment by [deleted] at 25/06/2020 at 23:38 UTC

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Yes and in 2016 polls showed HRC was going to trounce DJT.

Who is going to answer this question with "no actually I think Ibrahim Kendi is a moron"?

What people say and what they do/think are different.

Comment by [deleted] at 26/06/2020 at 13:05 UTC

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With that much social pressure to voice the "correct" opinion, I don't know how reliable polls are, even "anonymous" ones.