Posted on 02/22/2023 6:29:02 PM PST by Golden Eagle
Britain’s elite cultural institutions – the BBC, universities, the national trust – are dominated by the woke. Since smart people tend to get ahead in life, you might assume the woke would have higher intelligence. Not so, according to a new study.
Louise Drieghe and colleagues surveyed 300 North Americans adults using the platform Mechanical Turk. To measure participants’ cognitive ability, they administered the Ammons Quick Test, which involves correctly assigning words to pictures. Previous studies have shown that people’s scores on the test correlate strongly with their scores on more comprehensive IQ tests, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
The researchers also assessed participants’ support for free speech and concern for political correctness. To measure the former, they constructed a 9-item scale, comprising items such as “Every individual has the unalienable right to express their thoughts freely,” and “Censorship of speech leaves little room for debate and diverse points of view”.
To measure the latter, they used a 7-item scale developed by two other researchers. It includes items such as “I get mad when I hear someone use politically incorrect language,” and “I try to educate people around me about the political meaning of their words”.
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Liking math makes it hard to be a leftist.
Being woke means rejecting a whole lot of things that result from applying cognitive ability.
That’s why math is racist.
A = A is racist.
Well that explains much
I always said I wasn’t as dumb as I looked.
:-)
"Might assume"? Try never. Stupidity is not intelligence by definition.
“I try to educate people around me about the political meaning of their words”.
For instance, “democracy,” “our values,” “who we are,” and “rules-based order” are various ways of saying “sodomy” when the globalists say them.
I read that a while back also.
But they can recite all 72 genders, until they become 11,213.
Modern liberals are what we call Marxists, and of them you are correct.
Classical liberals are what we call "libertarians", who do indeed support those ideals in red.
Uppercase 'L' is the Libertarian Party which is something else, largely unrelated to classical liberalism.
You make a good point, but I will say this. Going back to
1972, the Democrat party ventured out onto it’s new Liberal
path.
Now I get your classically liberal intention here, but who
is this guy polling? Anyone in his stride in 1972, is now
in his 90s.
Is he going to nursing homes and finding classically liberal
people worth their salt, to poll?
At some point the reference to “classically liberal” loses
its validity.
It seems to me that it’s likely he’s actually polling
Liberals, and not the classic variety.
He didn’t reference Libertarians. If he had I wouldn’t
have responded to his comments as I did.
Did I miss a reference to Libertarians?
I must be a super genius! ;-)
Well, certainly not big-L Libertarians. As I mentioned, big-L Libertarians (i.e. the Libertarian Party) aren't classical liberals. By and large, they're loons.
And the reference to small-l libertarians was indirect, not explicit. So I'll grant you a pass on that, too.
With regard to age:
> Now I get your classically liberal intention here, but who is this guy polling? Anyone in his stride in 1972, is now in his 90s. Is he going to nursing homes and finding classically liberal people worth their salt, to poll? At some point the reference to “classically liberal” loses its validity.
Depends on what you call "stride". In 1972 I was 20 years old, and arguably getting ready to "hit my stride". I'm 71 now, work full-time in Engineering, play in three rock bands, and don't look a day over 60. :-) "Stride" is where you find it.
But you're (unfortunately) correct that we "classical liberals" -- small-l libertarians -- are a diminishing breed. The extreme polarization of modern politics and social viewpoints has all but eliminated any reasonable, sensible, dare I say moderate, position. We are ignored by both the Right and the Left for insufficient ideological purity. *sigh*
I’m 71 also, and honestly I’m not sure others would really
grasp what you mean by classical liberals.
Is that kind of dying out, or am I not as well informed on
that class of political leaning as I should be?
If I had to expound on those beliefs, I would probably
get a few things wrong also. I have an overall view of
it, but not an exact grasp. I’ve seen it addressed over
the years and I believe my perception is fairly accurate
even if I couldn’t perfectly describe it.
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