Study links dim wits to conservative ideology

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Study links dim wits to conservative ideology

British and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.

The research study, "Bright minds and dark attitudes", used data from two British studies that tested the intelligence of children born in 1958 and 1970. The tests were carried out when the children were around 10 years old, and then when they reached their 30s the subjects were quizzed on their political views. Data was also used from a similar study in the US, where attitudes towards homosexuality were checked.

“We found that lower general intelligence in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology,” said Professor Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. “A secondary analysis of a US data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact.”

Over 15,000 subjects were asked a series of questions to gauge their political views and attitudes towards race and homosexuality, such as "Family life suffers if mum is working full-time," and "I wouldn't mind working with people from other races."

In the British study, 62 per cent of boys and 65 per cent of girls whose level of intelligence was below the median at age 10 expressed above-median levels of racism during adulthood. Conversely, only 35 to 38 per cent of the children with above-median levels of intelligence exhibited racist attitudes as adults.

The team stress these results are based around median levels, meaning there are plenty of smart racists and tolerant thick people. But on average there was a clearly defined link between sub-par cognitive skills and abstract reasoning and bigotry.

“Cognitive ability is a reliable predictor of prejudice. Understanding the causes of intergroup bias is the first step toward ultimately addressing social inequalities and negativity toward out-groups. Exposing right-wing conservative ideology and intergroup contact as mechanisms through which personal intelligence may influence prejudice represents a fundamental advance in developing such an understanding,” the paper concludes.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/03/thick_kids_racist/

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If Tolerance To The Bullshit of Others is an indicator of intelligence, put me down in the Dumb As A Fucking Stump Category.

News Flash:  We're sick and fucking tired of being told what we can or cannot endure just to make you happy.

*spits*

[Pepsi]

put me down in the Dumb As A Fucking Stump Category.

No need to do any re-arranging then 

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What is social intolerance? Social intolerance is a process by which one person or group hates or shuns another person or group due to differences they possess. Social intolerance is a process, which advances from feelings, which occur as responses to one or more environmental factors. Environmental factors could spark fear, which is normally a major reason for prejudice’s birth.

Antipathy of peculiars in a society is known by one common name: Social Intolerance. Social intolerance begins with many sources but mainly begins due to fear of the unknown. An example of fearing the unknown is how the American southerners enslaved and completely opposed freedom of black men due to fears of the black men’s potential putting white men out of jobs as expressed in “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass”. Fears normally tend to spark anxiety, which is normally heightened by personal insecurities.

Insecurity is a great reason for developing intolerance because the intolerant are so insecure that he/she begins to claim differences as faults. The accuser first thinks the difference as a fault, and when he/she speaks it, many people agree with the accuser thereby spreading an insecure person’s stupid hatred thoughts into the minds of other insecure people. In all my experiences, almost every person possesses a form of social intolerance, but thereby denies that fault by creating excuses to justify him/herself. An example of this is people hating racist people but denying this hate as social intolerance, which just goes to show that all forms of hate are still social intolerance because they still do not wish to tolerate the hated. Hate remains the same even after generations, mainly due to the unchanging status quo.

At all times in history a status quo is constantly changing, but most people do not like change so these new changes were greatly abhorred. People do not like the idea of change because then it is getting used to something new and people just do not want that. People begin to believe that change is an insulting concept because it is different from general beliefs, and this ties in greatly with insecurity. One example is the rejection of Nicolas Copernicus’s solar system due to the fact that our “great” Earth is not in the center where God can “smile upon us” the church argued. It was rejected for a very long time due to the insecurities of the people believing that “If the church was wrong about the solar system, could salvation be an illusion to easily damn us?” Change and social insecurities both work greatly to belittle great ideas and theories which could help the world.

Social intolerance can be harmful to many people and families, putting people in the Hester Prynne situation, and sometimes even leading to the Dimmesdale-ian insanity. The society can even Puritan-ify itself by the destruction of logic and the establishment of unrationalistic faith. Many people try to dethrone intolerance by using feelings as a javelin, but the javelin is just caught and snapped by the haters’ abusive “ well they shouldn’t be different” argument. Slave holidays were started by fear of revolt, and the people not allowing any holidays were scolded because of it. Almost all the insecurities of people created new intolerances, and the hate of change only helps to leave all these intolerances in place. People begin to shun the benefits of change and differences thanks to the intolerance. The society’s mind narrows by not thinking of the possibilities of the hated; society becomes irrational, and the people only see a piece of the whole picture.

http://socyberty.com/society/social-intolerance/

Conclusion:  Pepsi, if you believe you are "socially tolerant" of ANYTHING other than your own worldview, you should question your sanity.  Those who claim tolerance are just as intolerant to the viewpoints of others as those who have said "Enough is enough.  STFU!!"

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Extreme and insane veiwpoints should not be tolerated.

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Extreme and insane veiwpoints should not be tolerated.

Agreed.

That means you should STFU.

[IM2]

Except that my veiwpoint is not really all that extreme. Maybe you need to STFU.

Agreed.

That means you should STFU.

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The White Man rules the world, and that is good because if the black man was in charge, we would be a complete ghetto.

Word, bro!!

[IM2]

I think that in the future people who mess with the words others have posted and/or post up quotes people have not said, should be a bannable offense.