Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
2 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans left
of the writing, not the subject · beta estimate
Publisher signals
60/100
National Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
While most Canadians reject collective blame and sweeping claims about religious and ethnic groups, younger Canadians are substantially more likely to accept them, according to a new poll.
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Canadians → reject → poll
Data collected by the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) found that more 57 per cent of Canadians find it unacceptable — not very or not at all — to suggest that a particular religion has harmful beliefs.
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religion → collect → beliefs
The only outlier among the age groups was 18-24-year-olds, 56 per cent of whom felt it was somewhat or very acceptable to say that.
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it → feel → that
Nearly seven in ten respondents (69 per cent) think it’s either degree of unacceptable to say that members of a specific ethnic or religious group cannot be trusted.
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members → think → group
The youngest cohort was the only one with observable conflict, with 42 per cent of on the accepting side.
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cohort → accept → side
When it comes to holding members of a religious group collectively responsible for the actions of a foreign government, three quarters (75 per cent) deemed it unacceptable, but, again, nearly a third (32 per cent) under 25 were more accepting.
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third → come → 25
People in the 25-34 age group (30 per cent) and the 45-55 demographic (31 per cent) also registered above the overall net acceptable number (25 per cent).
“There needs to be some increasing thought and sensitivity about the extent to which people make those connections,” ACS president Jack Jedwab told National Post in an interview, noting that none of that should ever be acceptable “in democracies like ours.”
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none → register → ours
Without ascribing any symmetry to the subjects, the poll sought to understand which religious or ethnic groups Canadians feel should be apologizing for the one they are perceived to be affiliated with outside of Canada.
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they → ascribe → Canada
It found that 43 per cent of respondents are most likely to think that Muslims should be expected to publicly condemn terrorist acts carried out in the name of Islam.
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Muslims → find → Islam
Meanwhile, 36 per cent suggested Russian Canadians should be expected to publicly condemn actions of the Russian government with which they disagree, and 32 per cent felt the same about Jewish Canadians and the Israeli government.
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cent → suggest → Canadians
“I’m not comparing the acts of the Israeli government to the actions of terrorism in the name of Islam,” said Jedwab.
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Jedwab → compare → Islam
“But what is common about it is the accusation of responsibility for such actions, because I sometimes get the impression that some people feel that some of this is okay, but the other sort of expression of it isn’t.”
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sort → get → it
ACS’s data also showed that the people most likely to say that members of a specific ethnic or religious group are responsible for the actions of a foreign government are the ones who expected to publicly condemn acts “over which they have no individual control or responsibility.”
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they → show → control
A plurality of people who feel that’s very (73.2 per cent) or somewhat acceptable (54 per cent) who feel that way said Muslim Canadians should be expected to publicly condemn terrorist acts carried out in the name of Islam.
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Canadians → feel → Islam
Asked if Jewish Canadians should be expected to publicly condemn actions of the Israeli government with which they disagree, the majority (52.7 per cent) from the very acceptable ranks agreed, as did 38.2% among those on the somewhat acceptable side.
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% → ask → side
“People who make that statement, who support those views, think that it’s okay for Muslim Canadians to publicly condemn terrorist acts carried out in the name of Islam — it’s not okay,” Jedwab said, noting the same holds for Jewish and Russian Canadians.
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Jedwab → make → Canadians
They’re a threat to free expression.”
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They → ’re → expression
The poll of 1,538 respondents, conducted by Leger on behalf of the Association for Canadian Studies, was conducted Sept. 4-6.
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poll → conduct → Studies
A margin of error cannot be associated with a non-probability sample in a panel survey for comparison purposes.
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margin → associate → purposes
However, a probability sample of this size would have a margin of error of 2.5 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
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sample → have → 20
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