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"Left-wing authoritarians can be just as prejudiced, dogmatic, and extremist as right-wing authoritarians". New study shows that 'authoritarianism' scales in psychology have been biased against conservatives for decades. HT @jmrphyhttp://www.psypost.org/2018/01/study-leftists-just-likely-dogmatic-authoritarians-right-50674 …
I've recently been struck by how many movements that were, in retrospect, obvious totalitarian moral cults (e.g. the English Puritans) were portrayed by their apologists (e.g. Max Weber) as "anti-authoritarian."
it's not just in retrospect that their authoritarian nature was discovered. the English Puritans were basically ejected from England because of that. They were intolerable even to their contemporaries.
What a stupid study. Anyone who examines political science or authoritarian movements knows this already. Latin America, for example, tends toward left authoritarianism. (Probably unique confluence of liberation theology and colonialism.) Whereas right bias in western powers.
It seems pike obvious: remove the veneer from left or right authoritarians and you get the same inhuman theory loving arrogance. The real fight was always democracy vs authoritarianism not left v right. The latter is only to clear the decks to decide which despots rule.
Water is wet
The future lies ahead.
Fantastic piece :)
Is there a psychological rigidity scale, because I suspect both political fringes will be quite high.
My thoughts too along with thinking they represent a small percentage of the population at any given time as with fanatics of any ideology or belief.
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