Twenty-five years after al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 22% of American college students now agree that "America deserved Sept. 11," according to the Buckley Institute's annual survey of 803 undergraduates, the New York Post reports. Seventy-two percent disagreed and 6% were unsure.
The same poll found students turning harder against Israel. Asked which is the better ally for the United States, 38% picked "Palestine" and 25% picked Israel, a 9-point shift away from the Jewish state since last year.
Socialism is also gaining. Forty-two percent said they would rather live under a socialist system and 28% under capitalism, the widest gap in the five years Buckley has asked. Forty-seven percent agreed that socialist countries such as Cuba and the Soviet Union "offer a better economic model" than the United States, while 33% said American capitalism is better.
Half of the students said America is "inextricably linked to white supremacy." Just 39% said the country is moving forward on equality.
Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker said in 2019 that America "deserved 9/11." None of the students surveyed were alive on Sept. 11, 2001.
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