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‘It’s Bullsh*t’: Liberals Seethe At Diversity Debunking Study (Peer reviewed study: Dems are lock-step extremists)
Daily Ca ^ | Natalie Sandoval

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 ...


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1 posted on 06/14/2025 3:23:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Of course. Leftist ideologues are True Believers.(Eric Hoffer)


2 posted on 06/14/2025 3:29:04 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: RoosterRedux

It took a study to know this?


3 posted on 06/14/2025 3:33:19 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: RoosterRedux

I always say we’re not diverse, we’re different.


4 posted on 06/14/2025 3:34:26 AM PDT by period end of story (Unvaxxed for my protection.)
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To: Fai Mao

It took a peer-reviewed study from a respected journal to establish this as something more than opinion.


5 posted on 06/14/2025 3:46:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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"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,
6 posted on 06/14/2025 3:48:48 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: RoosterRedux

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.


7 posted on 06/14/2025 3:56:14 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yes, another term for left wingers is, “narrow minded’... or even ‘closed minded’... inflexible, anal retentive...


8 posted on 06/14/2025 3:59:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (The "PROTECT CRIMINAL ILLEGALS" riots are subsidize by cartels, commies, and organized crime)
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To: RoosterRedux

In other words, they are losers.


9 posted on 06/14/2025 4:02:17 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: RoosterRedux

who needed a study?? Pasty white liberals are the most intolerant, bigoted people on the face of the earth.


10 posted on 06/14/2025 4:25:43 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: RoosterRedux

E pluribus unum nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.


11 posted on 06/14/2025 5:10:38 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: RoosterRedux

The left has been this way since 1917. Democrats; party of Lenin, iron discipline.


12 posted on 06/14/2025 5:18:57 AM PDT by henkster (The attacks on Tesla are all the proof you need that climate change was never about climate change.)
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To: RoosterRedux

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.


13 posted on 06/14/2025 5:19:00 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS Much?)
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To: RoosterRedux

Liberalism is disease far worse than cancer.


14 posted on 06/14/2025 5:22:13 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Leftism is a dogmatic religion, and they have no tolerance for unbelievers.


15 posted on 06/14/2025 5:32:41 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: maddog55

Leftism is like a cancer of the mind. And it progresses at an ever increasing rate of speed.


16 posted on 06/14/2025 5:43:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Bkmk


17 posted on 06/14/2025 5:44:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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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.

18 posted on 06/14/2025 5:55:36 AM PDT by NoLibZone (Trump failure: Not declaring Antifa a terrorist organization.)
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To: RoosterRedux

This is only news to everyone besides conservatives, who have watched Dims become lock-stepped in Leftist orthodoxies more and more every decade.


19 posted on 06/14/2025 6:00:20 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: RoosterRedux

Liberals do not tolerate diversity of thought.


20 posted on 06/14/2025 6:27:23 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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