Posted on 01/26/2012 8:34:46 PM PST by Redcat
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice.......
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
All of the low-intelligence adults I’ve seen lately seem to have Obama bumper stickers on their cars and tend to gravitate towards the local food stamp office.
“The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults”...and grow up to support liberalism and abortion. (kinda like the “progressives”, liberals, NAACP, Girl Scouts of America,Congressional Black Caucus, and the Susan G. Komen Organization?)
Margaret Sanger-Planned Parenthood:On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“...human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning... human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people.
liberal clap-trap bump for later.......
"James Taranto, author of "The Best of the Web" column for the Wall St. Journal had a brilliant comment about this "study" today:
So IQ tests are racist, except when they're used to "prove" that people with "socially conservative ideologies" are racist and intellectually inferior.
Game, set, match.
Exactly. Gordon Hodson gets schooled by a guy who didn't even graduate from high school.
Brock University is in Ontario... Canada.
Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Publishes extensive study on ‘Psychological Causes of Political Madness’
Published: 11/12/2008 at 6:33 PM
WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying
themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the
case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals
relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our
freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book,
“The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like
spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities
of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from
cradle to grave.”
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made
similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a
life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing
conspiracy.”
For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500
patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more
than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic
psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the
University of Chicago.
Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack
Obama and his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton can only be
understood as a psychological disorder.
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the
vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity –
as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human
nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal
appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social
equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who
understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which
over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their
character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of
inferiority in the population by:
creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and
compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to
the will of the government.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly
identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to
adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs
of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines
about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks
above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own
lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”
Hey! I’ve got a Ph. D. in Physics and I’m prejudiced as hell! ... er, ummm ...
The average Black inner city IQ is 76.
Average Black IQ is 85.
Blacks vote Democrat 95%. And the 5% who don’t - sure aren’t average city folks.
Sorry. Facts are facts.
it is kind of ubsurd what the Left will pay iteself to conclude, to pretend to feel good about themselves and their anti-human insanity.
Wow! A study done in Canada that shows a correlation between
racism and conservative thinking...can’t be anything wrong here.
“Note their definition of conservative: Conservatives “stress hierarchy and resistance to change.”
Classic propaganda: Simply redefine your opponent’s beliefs. Then attack those beliefs.
If conservatives truly “stress hierarchy and resistance to change,” I should be able to assign the inverse definition to the inverse label: Liberals stress disorder and lawlessness.”
Exactly, I also wonder when they decided blacks were mostly conservative as well! As a group the most racist are blacks in the USA. Oh well, so much for truth and logic, guess this researcher just wanted to make some propaganda point...
It has been my experience that very intelligent people tend to be conservative. The slow ones are easily bamboozled.
Dovetails into the recent Newsweek article “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?” It sounds like the White House is disseminating talking points again.
Science?
Science?
Nope. Politics.
I’m not surprised at all that Yahoo! News ran this. This is just business as usual for them.
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