The Free Speech Generation Gap

There doesn’t seem to be a big left-right split on political violence, either, even though the left thinks the right favors it and the right thinks the same of the left. According to surveys by the nonprofit More in Common, Americans on both sides overwhelmingly reject it.Something interesting that More in Common found in a recent survey is that the more time people spend on social media, the more likely they are to agree with the statement, “I feel that violence is sometimes needed to advance political causes in the U.S. today.” This tends to support Wallsten’s generation-gap thesis.