Let's look at a few of the questions. For the most part, I'm going to concentrate on the 18-24 age bracket as it has been the most heavily impacted by DIE and CRT indoctrination. Here, 51 percent of the people in that age group agree with the proposition that Israel should be "ended" and handed over to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

At the same time, 76 percent agree that Hamas was guilty of mass rapes on October 7, and 58 percent think Hamas's goal is genocide.

Other findings are that 54 percent believe Hamas has deliberately put civilians in Gaza in danger (slide 68), and 62 percent think Hamas uses Gazans as human shields (slide 67). By an 80-20 margin (slide 66), they say Israel has a right to self-defense, and 58 percent do not think Hamas should be allowed to govern Gaza (slide 64).

Antisemitism

This is an interesting slide that looks at what constitutes harassment of Jewish students and the source of antisemitism on campus.

What is amazing is that nearly a third of 18-24-year-olds don't think public calls for genocide constitute harassment of Jewish students. Perhaps they think antisemitism is just a public policy proposal? The good news is that 71 percent do. Where it gets interesting is the break out of the source of antisemitism and how the perception of the 18-24-year-olds differs from their elders. They see students, professors, and foreign influence as the leading causes. Only eight percent say that antisemitism was "always" there.

Two-thirds think Jewish students are facing harassment and that antisemitism is prevalent on campus.

Two-thirds of the youngest age group think antisemitism is on the upswing.

In the next slide, we start to see some cognitive dissonance about speech codes and harassment appear. Over half the 18-24-year-olds believe that students should be free to call for genocide even though 70 percent consider that both harassment and hate speech.

So we have a situation where solid majorities say that Jewish students face harassment and that antisemitism is widespread and growing. Still, a majority supports the consequence-free harassment of Jewish students.

An even bigger puzzler is in this slide.

On the one hand, two-thirds of the 18-24-year-olds say Jews "as a class" are oppressors and should be treated as such. This goes a way toward explaining the blase attitude toward harassing Jewish students; they had it coming. On the other hand, 69 percent believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland. If you go back a bit, you'll see that 51 percent think Israel should be "ended" and its territory given to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Whites

The 18-24 age group overwhelmingly believes that Whites are oppressors and they should be, to use the technical term, f***ed over because they are oppressors. Ironically, 48 percent believe this policy is harmful to society.

Race Consciousness

Just as 70 percent of 18-24-year-olds think Whites are oppressors, the same percentage believe that racial identity politics dominates life on US campuses.

What a Dog's Breakfast

When confronted by an enormous volume of contradictory, at least on the surface, information, you have to try to make some sense of it. I don't think the poll is bad because Harris is a credible pollster. There is the possibility that the 18-24-year-olds are morons — I'm open to that explanation — but I think it is too simplistic.

I would suggest looking to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's critique of the USSR. According to Solzhenitsyn, the USSR maintained control of its people by making them lie. The government didn't really care what you believed, but it cared a great deal about what you said. In his essay "Live Not By Lies," Solzhenitsyn lays out a strategy for living in those conditions. Rod Dreher summarizes them in his book of the same name.

We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready,” Solzhenitsyn writes. “But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!” For example, says Solzhenitsyn, a man who refuses to live by lies: 

• Will not say, write, affirm, or distribute anything that distorts the truth 
• Will not go to a demonstration or participate in a collective action unless he truly believes in the cause 
• Will not take part in a meeting in which the discussion is forced and no one can speak the truth 
• Will not vote for a candidate or proposal he considers to be “dubious or unworthy” 
• Will walk out of an event “as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda” 
• Will not support journalism that “distorts or hides the underlying facts”

This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible and necessary ways of evading lies,” Solzhenitsyn writes. “But he who begins to cleanse himself will, with a cleansed eye, easily discern yet other opportunities.” 

Most of the contradictory answers can be explained by students having been indoctrinated to give the right answers and knowing what the "third rails" of the DIE system are. In short, they know which "wrong" answers get them expelled from school or ostracized by their peer group and which opinions may be edgy and painless. They aren't willing to take part in a mass protest against the lies they are forced to mouth, but they are beginning to see the problems and reject what they've been told. 

It is incoherent for students to say that screwing over White students is perfectly fine while admitting that it is probably bad for the country. The dichotomy between saying that Israel must "end" and that it has the right to self-defense and that Hamas has used human shields and committed systematic rape of Israelis is that one of those answers is required and the others are not.

The scary part of the survey for me was the number of students who said that racial group identification dominated campus life. It is a matter of time until they discover what it is like trying to enter a workforce that increasingly discriminates against Whites and men. When race consciousness as a driving force combines with grievance, bad things happen. 

I think the answers indicate we are on the cusp of a pendulum swing that is going to make a lot of people very sad that they ever came up with DIE or CRT.