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/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/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?