Quote: (03-22-2019 04:04 PM)TutorGuina Wrote:
Quote: (03-22-2019 01:27 PM)The Catalyst Wrote:
Quote: (03-22-2019 10:29 AM)Sherman Wrote:
I wonder if the majority of people in New Zealand are actually in favor of the Muslims. The media makes it look like they are all overwhelmingly united in support. But then the media lies so there is no way of telling. Look at how they suppressed the latest attack in Italy. That is where we are at. We have no way of finding out what the truth is anymore. All these pictures are just click-bait designed to have a specific effect.
I think so(for the most part). The amount of actual conservatives like what the US or EE would define as conservative are only a few dozen.
They are generally apathetic so don't have an opinion one way or the other.
I've seen 20-30+ people in my newsfeed being supportive of Muslims, and only 2-3 not being supportive, and they are generally shouted down unless they have a really foreign audience. My friends list is skewed conservative too. Not that my conservative friends would support Muslims but the typical Kiwi newsfeed must be even worse. In real life I get this feeling too. I understand it's like the Trump effect where Trump supporters have to keep quiet but I genuinely don't really notice people feeling uncomfortable having sympathy for Muslims.
Which platform was it? My facebook feed is 60% to 80% retarded left wing bullshit yet my state voted Bolsonaro by a significant margin, twitter was probably even worse. Having young urban people in your friend list and Soylicon Valley censorship will greatly change your perception
In my opinion the most possibly adequate way of measuring public opinion is youtube comments, Google itself may be biased but they can't stop all the comments for some reason
Even in public spaces the virtue signalers are much more noisy, silent majority is a real phenomenon. On the other hand, I agree that electing that dumb bimbo in headscarf is quite suspicious
It is Facebook. However I notice there are virtually no Youtube comments on political topics from Kiwis.
Incidentally, we didn't actually elect Jacinda, as such. Horus has explained above. The National("right", actually centre-left) party was higher than Labour("left", actually far-left) by a decent margin, but because they didn't get 50% the coalition got Labour in.