… America deserved 9/11.

Actually, I’m a bit surprised that it’s that low. Today’s college students have no personal memory of 9/11; it’s just something they learned about in school. And the vast majority of today’s college students have gone to schools dominated by leftist thought.

The pollsters didn’t ask the students who thought 9/11 was deserved why they thought it was deserved. Here’s more about the poll; the results are broken down by political affiliation but not by, for example, ethnicity or religion, which might have been informative.

I find this interesting and not the least bit surprising:

Some students in this survey expressed intolerance for contrary opinions. A significant minority (42%) believe that hearing opinions they disagree with can be harmful to their mental health, the highest percentage in the five years the question has been asked. 44% would avoid taking a class with a professor who publicly shares opinions they disagree with, and 48% would not be able to be close friends with someone of a different political party. Liberal students led moderates and conservatives in all 3 categories with 51% believing contradictory political opinions are harmful to their mental health, 55% saying they wouldn’t take a class with a professor with contrary opinions, and 65% being unwilling to have close friends across the aisle. Conservatives sat at just 31%, 33%, and 27% respectively.

That conforms to my own observations, and not just of students but across the age groups.