Right-wingers are thick - case closed

[Clinton Huxley]

I know we've had this reported before but it just amused me that now this story has reached the Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... acist.html

"Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced"
"Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'"

[klr]

I know we've had this reported before but it just amused me that now this story has reached the Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... acist.html

"Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced"
"Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'"

Irony of ironies. Were the Daily Mall editorial team too dense to realise the implications of this for their readership?

[Clinton Huxley]

Meta-ironic, probably. Maybe there is a Guardian mole at the very heart of the Daily Mail's science reporting team.....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Being part of a mob, especially an organized mob like the National Socialists, probably makes frightened people feel better, no doubt. It's easier to swallow the lie and go along with the crowd than it is is to think.

[amused]

In the US the right wingers who are dumb racists can't deal with the cognitive dissonance of a smart Black man in the White House, so they become birthers.

Whatever it takes to feel 'safe'.

[Svartalf]

Well, the mob does take care of its own.
Unlike the modern capitalist society.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, the mob does take care of its own.
Unlike the modern capitalist society.

I would disagree. The mob is just a mob. It's the illusion of safety that sucks them in. They don't stop to think that they could be the next victim of the policies they support, and that the government they're obeying has no need to obey them.

[Atheist-Lite]

This may be the case in 'safe and secure' times but the NSDP in Germany were far from dumb. I'd guess it is more a recognition that people with the smarts don't rock the boat unless absolutely necessary. You could imagine doing the same kind of study in five or ten years from now, after the dollar crash and food riots and massive mega-unemployment, and find things quite different? Crumple is undeclared and will support who ever is in power so long as they point the guns elsewhere.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This may be the case in 'safe and secure' times but the NSDP in Germany were far from dumb.

Care to parse that out for me. It doesn't scan as it is.

[Tero]

I have not paid much attention, I was in the lab a long time. So it was a revelation to me in this century to see how dumb people really are.

[Ronja]

Maybe there is a Guardian mole at the very heart of the Daily Mail's science reporting team.....

What a fascinating possibility

[Audley Strange]

Nonsense! a Guardian mole would have had not only a headline damning the research as maligning the thick but an article by a middle class immigrant lesbian Jihadi who's proud to be stupid and right-wing and shame on all of the liberals for not embracing the benefits of honor killings and suicide bombers as a vibrant part of multicultural Britain in the 21st Century.

[Atheist-Lite]

This may be the case in 'safe and secure' times but the NSDP in Germany were far from dumb.

Care to parse that out for me. It doesn't scan as it is.

Prior to the collapse of the Weimer republic things were quite liberal. After the hyper-nflation Germany moved to the extreme right and the so did the intelligensia.



http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003155.html

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This may be the case in 'safe and secure' times but the NSDP in Germany were far from dumb.

Care to parse that out for me. It doesn't scan as it is.

Prior to the collapse of the Weimer republic things were quite liberal. After the hyper-nflation Germany moved to the extreme right and the so did the intelligensia.



http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003155.html

Okay, but I'd limit that to certain operators in the party, not the NDSAP as a whole. Most of them, especially early on, were thugs.

[Atheist-Lite]

This may be the case in 'safe and secure' times but the NSDP in Germany were far from dumb.

Care to parse that out for me. It doesn't scan as it is.

Prior to the collapse of the Weimer republic things were quite liberal. After the hyper-nflation Germany moved to the extreme right and the so did the intelligensia.



http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003155.html

Okay, but I'd limit that to certain operators in the party, not the NDSAP as a whole. Most of them, especially early on, were thugs.

Smart head dumb body. Liberals do it the other way round and never keep power in troubled times, don't know why?