A quarter of those polled said schools should have protesters arrested for opposing the Israel-Hamas war. Not for vandalism or disruption, not for supporting mass murder, just for opposing a war which the respondents support.

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/national-speech-index-july-2024

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To be fair I think that particular question was kind of crappy.

> Should colleges and universities have police arrest student protesters opposing the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

or should colleges allow the protests to continue as a matter of free speech?

There're a whole lot of things between "arrest everybody" and "_colleges_ should show full support", but the question presents those two as a binary.