MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Matthew Hudson @ "The Big Idea" @ Politico.com, May 9
[.....] Research over the years has shown that in industrialized nations, social conservatives and religious fundamentalists possess psychological traits, such as the valuing of conformity and the desire for certainty, that tend to predispose people toward prejudice. Meanwhile, liberals and the nonreligious tend to be more open to new experiences, a trait associated with lower prejudice. So one might expect that, whatever each group’s own ideology, conservatives and Christians should be inherently more discriminatory on the whole.
But more recent psychological research, some of it presented in January at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), shows that it’s not so simple. These findings confirm that conservatives, liberals, the religious and the nonreligious are each prejudiced against those with opposing views. But surprisingly, each group is about equally prejudiced. While liberals might like to think of themselves as more open-minded, they are no more tolerant of people unlike them than their conservative counterparts are [....]
Comments
Yeah, we just aren't open enough to pussy grabbing, shutting down governments to drown it in the bathtub, mass shootings from easy gun access, diverting all the money to the rich, banks stealing people's homes and retirement funds, lying our way into foreign wars, making laws that keep minorities from voting, and cavorting with Russian spies. We should be more tolerant of intolerance, since it's just a difference in cultural values, not substantial issues worth caring about.
I mean, look at all those liberals who won't hire conservatives or Christians, or who pay them less or fire them for their dress and comportment, or arrest them just for the way they look, sometimes beating them senseless or even killing them, hundreds of times a month across America.
I get religious reservations about abortions. I don' quite grok Christian contempt for the poor, for immigrants, for engaging in divisive politics instead of spreading love, and all those thousands of conservative messages in the Bible last time I read it.
But I know that some liberal said Happy Holidays instead of Christmas and sometime in the 60's a hippie supposedly spit on a returning vet, so we're just as responsible for the impasse.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/09/2017 - 2:43pm
Betsy DeVos delivered the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman today. Bethune-Cookman is an HBCU. DeVos is a racist, unequipped to be Secretary of Education. She plans to gut funding for HBCUs. She was booed during her speech. DeVos would defund HBCUs if the students greeted her warmly. She will defund HBCUs now that she has been booed. I am proud of the students who protested non-violently. Those students were under no obligation to tolerate the evil represented by DeVos.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-commencement-speech-beth...
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 05/10/2017 - 11:21pm