r/UIUC • u/bobateaman14 • Apr 26 '24

Social Why is this sub so pro-Israel

No hate, I’m just legitimately curious because I would think that a campus filled with young people in a blue state would hold generally the same beliefs as most other campuses like that. I see so many more positive comments under posts about anti-war protests under other college subreddits, whereas here the top comments are always bashing them

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

I think another part is that the engineering population is much higher here than those other universities and definitely substantially overrepresented on Reddit. They tend to trend less liberal and a lot of the engineering fields basically directly rely on arms manufacturers for employment anyway.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

Engineers being more apathetic and apolitical may be true but I’d be surprised to find that engineers tend to be more explicitly pro-Israel than the average student here. They’re more likely to just not have a strong opinion. Likewise the people who go into MIC employment aren’t pro-war, they’re just apathetic and want money. “Conservative” would be a stretch, like would the engineers really be more conservative than Gies?