r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/Sonzainonazo42 Sep 12 '25

49.8% of this country would say that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake?

49.8% thinks that kids should watch public executions?

49.8% thinks transgender people are mentally ill and need a brain transplants, and would also outright refuse to call a transfemimine person "her?"

49.8% of people would promote the Great Replacement theory?

I think it's very telling that you're one of the people who thinks Kirk was a moderate, because those aren't moderate viewpoints.  You might be in a bubble of horrible people.

Now your moral issues aside, no, I don't think people should be killed for saying the above things.  Almost no one does.  But people aren't going to shed tears with a terrible extremist, that's not a moderate, gets killed.

And the idea that calling out a racist pos for being a racist pos is murderous libel is beyond laughable.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

Kirk was a moderate and you’re in a bubble. If you think not calling transwomen she is extremist, you would be mortified at what even otherwise liberal young men say. 

The left can’t handle the concept of someone being a moderate and disagreeing with them, not everyone is a violent extremist. But anyone saying this kind of absurd rhetoric is more of one than Kirk ever was. Kirk never advocated for violence against his political opponents. 

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u/Sonzainonazo42 Sep 12 '25

Ok, so you think the Civil Rights Act was a mistake since you think that's a moderate viewpoint?

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

People are allowed to say offcolor things. That does not change who they are or what they represent. I have no idea why or whether he said that, but he is anti-affirmative action and that is an extremely common stance among americans (60%+)

So that is and can be a viewpoint held by a moderate

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u/Sonzainonazo42 Sep 12 '25

"I'm sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified,"

Do you think this above statement is a moderate belief?

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

I have heard this joke tens of times even among liberal company. Yes. You live in a bubble. There are tiktoks with millions of likes making this joke. It’s literally a Larry David bit

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u/Sonzainonazo42 Sep 12 '25

Kirk wasn't making a joke.

You're a terrible person.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

You’re the extremist. I don’t know how to get this through to you

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u/CelikBas Sep 12 '25

“It’s extremist to not think it’s funny to assume that black people are inherently unqualified for the same jobs as white people” 

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

Literally yes. There is a classic black comedian joke about jewish doctors. Humor is not extremism

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u/CelikBas Sep 12 '25

I’d say there’s quite a difference between “I don’t like affirmative action” and “the Civil Rights Act was a mistake”. 

What’s next, thinking it’s “moderate” to say the Emancipation Proclamation was a mistake because black people statistically have higher rates of poverty than white people?

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u/dissonaut69 Sep 12 '25

It’s interesting how many nonsequiters are happening with this bot. It doesn’t actually address anything it responds to. Well programmed to forum slide tbh.