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PeonForHer -> Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 12:17:58 PM)

Deliberately citing the UK's Daily Mail which itself is famously right wing, not to mention something less than highbrow:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html


"Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study


  • Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced
  • Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'
  • Analysis of more than 15,000 people"
     
    Surely this cannot be true?





  • Trismagistus -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 12:23:49 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

    Deliberately citing the UK's Daily Mail which itself is famously right wing, not to mention something less than highbrow:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html


    "Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study


  • Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced
  • Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'
  • Analysis of more than 15,000 people"
     
    Surely this cannot be true?





  • I cannot personally validate the legitimacy of this claim, I do intend to smack people in the face with it at every opportunity however.




    SternSkipper -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 12:27:25 PM)

    quote:

    Right wingers are thicker than lefties


    Intellectually? Youbetchya!




    thishereboi -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 1:15:14 PM)

    quote:

    I cannot personally validate the legitimacy of this claim, I do intend to smack people in the face with it at every opportunity however.


    You could get together with the ones who love to link the "atheists are smarter than religious folks" studies and put down two groups with one brush. More bang for your buck that way. [8D]




    Trismagistus -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 1:23:05 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: thishereboi

    quote:

    I cannot personally validate the legitimacy of this claim, I do intend to smack people in the face with it at every opportunity however.


    You could get together with the ones who love to link the "atheists are smarter than religious folks" studies and put down two groups with one brush. More bang for your buck that way. [8D]



    I suppose, I'm just being sarcastic though, I'm personally of the opinion that either way of thinking simply leads to being manipulated, meritocracy, now that's got some interesting solutions.




    Marc2b -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 1:40:50 PM)

    Finally!  The proof of what we knew all along!  We're superior!  They're inferior!  We cannot allow these vermin to hold us back any longer!  The intellectual purity, not to mention the future happiness of the human race, is at stake!  We must begin purification immediately!  Let's see... we'll need to identify the inferiors, a means of rounding them up, and places to safely keep and guard them while we carry out an orderly disposal.  I can't wait to see the shinning new future we crerate once we have delt with the right-winger problem once and for all.  I'm getting half a woody just thinking about it! 




    LaTigresse -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 1:44:23 PM)

    I am of the belief that ANYone that blindly follows any idiology is less intelligent. Regardless of who they are or what they believe.




    tazzygirl -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 2:08:07 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Marc2b

    Finally!  The proof of what we knew all along!  We're superior!  They're inferior!  We cannot allow these vermin to hold us back any longer!  The intellectual purity, not to mention the future happiness of the human race, is at stake!  We must begin purification immediately!  Let's see... we'll need to identify the inferiors, a means of rounding them up, and places to safely keep and guard them while we carry out an orderly disposal.  I can't wait to see the shinning new future we crerate once we have delt with the right-winger problem once and for all.  I'm getting half a woody just thinking about it! 



    Woody's belong on the republican sex thread. [;)]




    Kirata -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 2:23:29 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: thishereboi

    quote:

    I cannot personally validate the legitimacy of this claim, I do intend to smack people in the face with it at every opportunity however.

    You could get together with the ones who love to link the "atheists are smarter than religious folks" studies and put down two groups with one brush. More bang for your buck that way.


    There is, of course, the minor detail that equating IQ with intelligence is about the most ignorant bit of prejudicial crap to come along and that anyone who uses such an argument is self-evidently a bigoted idiot.

    K.





    Anaxagoras -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 2:29:13 PM)

    quote:

    ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
    Deliberately citing the UK's Daily Mail which itself is famously right wing, not to mention something less than highbrow:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html

    I think you suggested a few times that the Daily Mail was extremely dishonest so perhaps it is significant that they published a story that covers research that is implicitly very critical of their own overtly conservative readership, and did so without attempting to undermine the study, and paralleled it with contemporary British politics... [8D]




    Kirata -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 2:38:45 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras

    I think you suggested a few times that the Daily Mail was extremely dishonest so perhaps it is significant that they published a story that covers research that is implicitly very critical of their own overtly conservative readership, and did so without attempting to undermine the study...

    Obvious proof of the OP's claim that they're dishonest to the core, eh?

    /sarcasm

    Good call.

    K.




    PeonForHer -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 2:44:10 PM)

    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras

    I think you suggested a few times that the Daily Mail was extremely dishonest


    That is untrue.  I have said that the Daily Mail  is extremely dishonest many times.  [;)]

    Assuming this bit of research exists and does actually say what the Mail claims it says (two big assumptions), I've no idea why they'd choose to publicise it.  Perhaps to show, once again, just why scientists are such terrible people?  Beats me.  




    SternSkipper -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 3:07:43 PM)

    quote:

    Finally! The proof of what we knew all along! We're superior! They're inferior! We cannot allow these vermin to hold us back any longer! The intellectual purity, not to mention the future happiness of the human race, is at stake! We must begin purification immediately! Let's see... we'll need to identify the inferiors, a means of rounding them up, and places to safely keep and guard them while we carry out an orderly disposal. I can't wait to see the shinning new future we crerate once we have delt with the right-winger problem once and for all. I'm getting half a woody just thinking about it!


    Sounds Bigoted... will fit right in though at Newt's Lunar City




    Montana32DDD -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 3:17:26 PM)

    This article is a perfect example of Left Wing Projection. Any Claims of Right Wingers being stupid are just that, claims. Any claims that Left Wingers are smart are also just claims. In My experience, growing up in New York City, Left Wingers protect themselves by dismissing and ignoring the right. Left Wingers live in a fantasy bubble. Upon Leaving the vaunted City of New York *Where right wing thought is all but banned) and moving to "Fly Over Country" I can tell you this. In My experience Left Wingers are Ignorant, intolerant, and rude. Right Wingers are generally a lot more tolerant, a hell of a lot smarter than ANY left winger will give the right credit for. Right Wingers are also more polite, more charitable, and open minded. Also, Left Wingers are always the first to engage in character assassination as soon as they find out you do not agree with the left. Left Wing people are very very rude, engaging in anti social behavior to anyone who does not share their views. Gay Marriage is a perfect example of this, where any support for the traditional family is dismissed as hatred. I also believe that Left wing policies hurt the economy. Example: the current Economic downturn after three years of Democrat Majority Rule is dismissed as Bush's fault. Any one who applies the logic that the people currently in charge have a hand in the current mess is dismissed as racism. This is not an intelligent position. This is a perfect example of just how intellectually dishonest the left HAS to be. Cheers.




    PeonForHer -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 3:28:28 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Montana32DDD
    This is a perfect example of just how intellectually dishonest the left HAS to be. Cheers.


    Did you follow the link, Montana? It was published in what's widely known as the UK's most right wing newspaper. This is a paper that, as I've often said here, lies continually.

    Jesus. I give up.

    I'll just say, one last time:Please do not quote from the Daily Mail. It doesn't matter that it's British and has a veneer of respectability about it. It prints crap.




    SternSkipper -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 3:28:45 PM)

    You won't get away with intelligent posts about the wings in here young lady[:D]




    TheHeretic -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 4:12:08 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Trismagistus
    I cannot personally validate the legitimacy of this claim, I do intend to smack people in the face with it at every opportunity however.



    You might want to read it first. It reminds me a bit of the study Dems were trumpeting over for a bit, about college grads being more likely to be Democrats. They were having loads of fun until the conservatives started pointing out that high school dropouts were also more likely to be Democrats, while people who finished high school, or went on to a Masters or PhD trended Republican.

    What this study says is that people who latch onto prejudice and bigotry are more likely to be dumb. There are plenty of prejudiced morons on the D side.




    tazzygirl -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 4:28:16 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Montana32DDD

    This article is a perfect example of Left Wing Projection. Any Claims of Right Wingers being stupid are just that, claims. Any claims that Left Wingers are smart are also just claims. In My experience, growing up in New York City, Left Wingers protect themselves by dismissing and ignoring the right. Left Wingers live in a fantasy bubble. Upon Leaving the vaunted City of New York *Where right wing thought is all but banned) and moving to "Fly Over Country" I can tell you this. In My experience Left Wingers are Ignorant, intolerant, and rude. Right Wingers are generally a lot more tolerant, a hell of a lot smarter than ANY left winger will give the right credit for. Right Wingers are also more polite, more charitable, and open minded. Also, Left Wingers are always the first to engage in character assassination as soon as they find out you do not agree with the left. Left Wing people are very very rude, engaging in anti social behavior to anyone who does not share their views. Gay Marriage is a perfect example of this, where any support for the traditional family is dismissed as hatred. I also believe that Left wing policies hurt the economy. Example: the current Economic downturn after three years of Democrat Majority Rule is dismissed as Bush's fault. Any one who applies the logic that the people currently in charge have a hand in the current mess is dismissed as racism. This is not an intelligent position. This is a perfect example of just how intellectually dishonest the left HAS to be. Cheers.


    You are so funny!!!!

    Hahahahahaha




    Trismagistus -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 4:33:10 PM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Trismagistus
    I cannot personally validate the legitimacy of this claim, I do intend to smack people in the face with it at every opportunity however.



    You might want to read it first. It reminds me a bit of the study Dems were trumpeting over for a bit, about college grads being more likely to be Democrats. They were having loads of fun until the conservatives started pointing out that high school dropouts were also more likely to be Democrats, while people who finished high school, or went on to a Masters or PhD trended Republican.

    What this study says is that people who latch onto prejudice and bigotry are more likely to be dumb. There are plenty of prejudiced morons on the D side.


    Heretic, man, I totally already tossed it back in the face of the first person who quoted me that I was being sarcastic, no one has a monopoly on truth and there are voices of reason on both sides, sadly none of them get heard on either, the democrats tend to lie and say everything is alright until they aren't in power and the republicans want you to believe they're defending freedom while doing everything in their power to make money at the cost of visibility, democrats are just as guilty of that last offense as well. I don't even really believe two parties actually exist within our government beyond what they want everyone to see to make it look like they're doing their job. If I really wanted to sit here and wax intellectual on the issue I could pull up horrible crap both sides do while somehow miraculously keeping their constituents from objecting loudly enough to change things, but that would be insulting to everyone here, even me considering I used to vote for offices (I still vote on policy on the rare occasion a local issue comes up and I still put in senatorial votes but, there have been confessions by the people that write the electoral booth voting and sorting software that it's all rigged anyway.) but, honestly I think the best thing we can do is try to wake people up to the basic truth that anyone who tries to take power over you that you don't personally know and trust should be tarred and feathered then run out of town, possibly on the end of a bayonet if they object loudly enough.




    tazzygirl -> RE: Right wingers are thicker than lefties? (2/4/2012 4:45:53 PM)

    quote:

    They were having loads of fun until the conservatives started pointing out that high school dropouts were also more likely to be Democrats, while people who finished high school, or went on to a Masters or PhD trended Republican.


    Got that study handy?




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