Twitter Blowing Up Over Odd Poll Asking Users If They Would Kill Hitler As A Baby
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Twitter is blowing up over an odd survey posted by New York Times Magazine on its Twitter account, asking readers a pressing question – one of the topics trending on Friday.
The poll was: "Dear Reader: Could you kill a baby Hitler?"
We asked @nytmag readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?) pic.twitter.com/daatm12NZC
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) October 23, 2015
Forty-two percent of those who responded to the survey said yes, 30 percent said no and 28 percent were unsure.
The whole #babyhitler thing misses the point that ppl are products of historical circumstance. Kill Hitler & there could be a replacement.
— J. Dylan Sandifer (@jdylan_sandifer) October 23, 2015
So what, we're supposed to go back in time and educate baby Hitler? Wait until he starts holocausting? No. #killBabyHitler #chaostheory
— arrreema ???????? (@arrreema) October 23, 2015
#KillBabyHitler Or give his dad a condom?
— Graham Buxton (@BungleFinchley) October 23, 2015
Killing #BabyHitler = NO HOLOCAUST which killed MILLIONS of innocent ppl yet there r religious wackos who said NO?!? https://t.co/fpI2cXSUuy
— SportsComedyHipHop (@SuperDopeHipHop) October 23, 2015