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Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

"Polling data and social and political science research do show that prejudice is more common in those who hold right-wing ideals tha(n) those of other political persuasions..."

"studies have found links between low levels of education and higher levels of prejudice..."

"As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood... When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.

"Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found."

People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races. This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and cognitively draining, and consistent with findings that contact reduces prejudice"

"...many anti-prejudice programs encourage participants to see things from another group's point of view. That mental exercise may be too taxing for people of low IQ."

http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservati ... 03506.html

1. Political science research? Good one.

2. We have been presented no data, just the conclusions.

3. I don't consider myself republican or democrat, but I hope no money was wasted in this study. It is fucking stupid.

some people are always forgetting about the Southern Democrats, who were more racist in the 1800's & 1900's than the Republicans ever were

Calling a republican a racist is like calling Paul Stanley bi-curious. It falls that much into the No Shit Sherlock Catagory. But the democrats aren't much better, they just seem to be the lesser of two evils. I mean Ted Nugent's a republican and Dave Mustaine's a democrat, what's the difference, they're both assholes.

Everyone knows Repukes are racist Christnitwits!

joey64 wrote:some people are always forgetting about the Southern Democrats, who were more racist in the 1800's & 1900's than the Republicans ever were

No, we're not forgetting that. It's constantly brought up, and we'd have to have collective Alzheimer's to forget it. However, it's about as relevant to modern politics as talking about bleeding people in the 1800s is to modern medicine.

tin00can wrote:

joey64 wrote:some people are always forgetting about the Southern Democrats, who were more racist in the 1800's & 1900's than the Republicans ever were

No, we're not forgetting that. It's constantly brought up, and we'd have to have collective Alzheimer's to forget it. However, it's about as relevant to modern politics as talking about bleeding people in the 1800s is to modern medicine.

It's as relevant to modern politics as bringing up slave auctions and somehow pretending they still go on!