[itsdrewmiller]

"Widely" could mean a lot of things - it doesn't appear to have anywhere close to majority support, but more than 15% of Americans (and almost half of young people) think it was at least acceptable:

https://archive.ph/hXNhj

That's around 50 million people.

[tptacek]

That's an extrapolation from a poll, not literally 50 million people, and you can get 15% of a poll sample to say almost anything, including (first thing that popped up in my Google search) that Hitler was good actually.

[benreesman]

Let’s not finely parse the polling (or any commenter’s history of poll citing):

how about a fucking unprecedented number of people are vigorously endorsing an assassination? How about a fucking huge number that’s a big deal?

[tptacek]

You mean like the poll that showed an unprecedented number of people supporting Hitler?

[benreesman]

I think we can keep a lot of discussion without Godwin’s law or whatever: we really stuck on “Hitler”?

[tptacek]

I'm not doing a "Godwin's law". I literally have on my screen a poll, which generated a whole news cycle, in which more people supported Hitler, in the United States, than are claimed to be supporting the CEO murderer here.

My point --- I think obviously --- is that 15% support in an opinion poll is a meaningless metric. Tens of millions of Americans do not in fact support Hitler. There's a whole literature on why these kinds of crazy results pop out of opinion polls (read up for instance on acquiescence bias).

[archagon]

I’m not sure why you think tens of millions of Americans do not support Hitler in some way.

Kanye seems to like him.

Trump has said positive things about him.

There are more white supremacists around than you might think.

[itsdrewmiller]

I encourage you to think critically about things you find on the internet - I think you are being misled in your summary here. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/headline-summarizing-youg...

There is the concept of the lizardman’s constant for polling wacky ideas but it is more like 4%.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...