You've read Altemeyer, i presume?
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
on right-wing authoritarianism? just via secondary source discussion i think
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Ohhhh. It's free online and you should absolutely read it for real. (And what Altemeyer means by "right-wing authoritarianism" isn't exactly what people think he means.) https://www.theauthoritarians.org/
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One important takeaway, when it comes to "SJWs", is that there is a certain baseline population of authoritarian-follower types in LITERALLY ANY group of people.
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And authoritarian followers don't care WHAT the cause is; it's basically all the same to them, as long as they have a position in the hierarchy.
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(As an aside, I always find it amusing in the extreme that the % of authoritarian followers, as hypothesized by Altemeyer, is not far off of John Rogers' "27% crazification factor" http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html …)
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Unfortunately, at least in our current culture the percentage of authoritarian-follower types, and their even worse cousins the authoritarian-leader types, is a constant. So you gotta figure out how to a) harness them or b) neutralize them, you can't just get rid of them.
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I guess what i'm long-windedly trying to say here is that this is not a problem that is unique to "wokeness" or "SJWs" or "the idpol left" or whatever. There aren't actually any more of those assholes *here* than anywhere *else*. It's just the manifestations that differ.
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And they're absolutely WAY more fucking annoying when they're supposed to be the good guys, but we have to deal with that sociologically because there's no way to just make them go away.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @chaosprime
Also i'm tipsy, thank you for listening to me babble.
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Like, you and i have serious disagreements sometimes - about tactics, about philosophy - but i am unequivocally willing to say that we're on the same side even when i want to kick you
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(And i flatter myself that the feeling is mutual!)
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