I saw this video appear on my YouTube feed this morning. It's actually from 9/8/2022, four years ago. And obviously it's not anything like a scientific survey or a legitimate poll. But I suspect it's showing something real.
The video shows an interviewer from "Young America's Foundation" which seems to be another youth organizing project similar to Turning Point USA, but even further to the right. Matt Walsh is a leading figure. In this video, the interviewer (Kara Zupkus) goes to George Mason University (located about 20 miles east of Washington, DC) to speak to the students there about 9/11/2001. The students are, generally, clueless -- although mostly they do remember that it had something to do with ISIS or Afghanistan or maybe Iraq. One student even mentioned that it had something to do with planes flying into buildings. Apparently the topic just isn't mentioned much in any of their classes.
If there are any 9-11 truthers left, this interviewer didn't feature them. There were some 32,000+ comments to the video, and I certainly didn't read any significant percentage, but I scanned several pages without seeing any 9/11 skeptics among the top posters.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, everybody remembered 9/11 clearly, and various forms of skepticism were very popular according to many opinion polls. For example, Zogby 2006 found that 42% of Americans agreed that the US government and 9/11 commission were "covering up something." And at about that same time, according to Scripps Howard, 16% of Americans agreed that "it's 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' that 'the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings.'"
In 2008, a global poll of 17 countries found that 15% said the US Government was responsible for 9/11, and 7% said it was Israel.
After that, as far as I can find from a web search, pollsters seem to have lost interest in the question -- even as 9/11 conspiracy theories were obviously gaining very widespread traction.
Now, sadly, the Powers that Be have found a winning strategy: all of us 9/11 skeptics are getting old, and "they" just don't tell the kids anything about it at all?
The video shows an interviewer from "Young America's Foundation" which seems to be another youth organizing project similar to Turning Point USA, but even further to the right. Matt Walsh is a leading figure. In this video, the interviewer (Kara Zupkus) goes to George Mason University (located about 20 miles east of Washington, DC) to speak to the students there about 9/11/2001. The students are, generally, clueless -- although mostly they do remember that it had something to do with ISIS or Afghanistan or maybe Iraq. One student even mentioned that it had something to do with planes flying into buildings. Apparently the topic just isn't mentioned much in any of their classes.
If there are any 9-11 truthers left, this interviewer didn't feature them. There were some 32,000+ comments to the video, and I certainly didn't read any significant percentage, but I scanned several pages without seeing any 9/11 skeptics among the top posters.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, everybody remembered 9/11 clearly, and various forms of skepticism were very popular according to many opinion polls. For example, Zogby 2006 found that 42% of Americans agreed that the US government and 9/11 commission were "covering up something." And at about that same time, according to Scripps Howard, 16% of Americans agreed that "it's 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' that 'the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings.'"
In 2008, a global poll of 17 countries found that 15% said the US Government was responsible for 9/11, and 7% said it was Israel.
After that, as far as I can find from a web search, pollsters seem to have lost interest in the question -- even as 9/11 conspiracy theories were obviously gaining very widespread traction.
Now, sadly, the Powers that Be have found a winning strategy: all of us 9/11 skeptics are getting old, and "they" just don't tell the kids anything about it at all?
