Posted on 06/14/2025 3:23:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Liberals pride themselves on being a bastion of diversity. As it turns out, they’re rather uniform in this belief.
“Democrats (more than Republicans) tightly centre their belief-system around a set of positions at the extremes of these particular items, implying that people who deviate from these positions are likely to be considered as outgroup members,” according to a study from the British Journal of Social Psychology is making the rounds on social media. “It is possible that holding extreme (and thus unnegotiable) attitudes on important social-political issues has become increasingly identity defining for Democrats,” the authors speculate.
The study’s authors recruited over 400 paid participants. 58.1% self-identified as Democrats, 28% as Independents, and 13.9% as Republicans. They asked participants to rank their opinions on eight questions regarding “hot-button topics such as abortion, immigration, gun control, and gay marriage” on a 5-point scale. They concluded the “cluster reflecting Democrat belief-system almost exclusively contained extreme attitudes as indicated by strong disagreement with each of the eight items. Conversely, the cluster reflecting the Republican belief-system contained a wider range of attitude responses ranging from mild disagreement to maximum agreement.”
Loyalty tests serve a vital function for political organizations (and human organizations more broadly). They signal out-group from in-group. The higher the signaling cost – like, say, demanding in-group members affirm that men are women – the more sure one can be of in-group loyalty.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Of course. Leftist ideologues are True Believers.(Eric Hoffer)
It took a study to know this?
I always say we’re not diverse, we’re different.
It took a peer-reviewed study from a respected journal to establish this as something more than opinion.
"Bullsh*t! We're tolerant! The British Journal of Social Psychology is nothing but a haven for Trump-loving fascists! Let's fire-bomb their premises!"Regards,
Of course they’re like this. They’re the first ones to have purity tests and to excommunicate anybody who in any way deviates from their dogma on any issue.
Yes, another term for left wingers is, “narrow minded’... or even ‘closed minded’... inflexible, anal retentive...
In other words, they are losers.
who needed a study?? Pasty white liberals are the most intolerant, bigoted people on the face of the earth.
E pluribus unum nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The left has been this way since 1917. Democrats; party of Lenin, iron discipline.
Let’s stop calling them extremists, radicals, diverse. They are flat out Communists and we should tell our friends and families to start calling them that.
Forget the Congresscritter schlump (D-NY). Call them Congresscritter Schlump (Commie-NY). Force the communists to defend that. Say it in congress. Say it in the media. We need to change the language that the Commies coopted to serve their narrative.
Liberalism is disease far worse than cancer.
Leftism is a dogmatic religion, and they have no tolerance for unbelievers.
Leftism is like a cancer of the mind. And it progresses at an ever increasing rate of speed.
Bkmk
the cluster reflecting the Democrat belief-system almost exclusively contained extreme attitudes as indicated by strong disagreement with each of the eight items. Conversely, the cluster reflecting the Republican belief-system contained a wider range of attitude responses ranging from mild disagreement to maximum agreement.
This is only news to everyone besides conservatives, who have watched Dims become lock-stepped in Leftist orthodoxies more and more every decade.
Liberals do not tolerate diversity of thought.
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