Do Young Americans Seek to Silence Debate?
Sam Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, recently used Reality Check Insights’ data to better understand Cancel Culture among young Americans. Here are some of his key findings.
“As new data from Reality Check Insights reveal, an overwhelming majority of young people are willing to shut down speech regarded as harmful and untrue—such as Holocaust denial, which 70% of Millennials and Gen Zers would ban from campuses. Yet large majorities of younger Americans oppose cancelling or limiting expressions of controversial or even offensive views: 69% would welcome a speaker on campus who opposed the Black Lives Matter movement, for example, while 81% would welcome a guest speaking in support of BLM.”
Read his full article here.
The data is from our recent State of America survey.
Methodology: Reality Check Insights State of America Survey, Aug. 11-27, 2020 (N=3,673, MOE +/- 4.4%). Data are weighted according to demographics.