A disturbing number of Americans qualify as "highly right-wing authoritarian," according to new research

[toobfreak]

A disturbing number of Americans qualify as "highly right-wing authoritarian,"​

What's "disturbing" about that. They are the SILENT MAJORITY.

 

[fncceo]

I can agree with being categorized as "highly right-wing", but I just can muster up enough enthusiasm about other people's lives to ever be authoritarian.

What other people do is none of my business.

 

[themirrorthief]

The far right is equally as bad as the far left. They both want to believe THEY know what is the perfect path. Yet they know nothing. They are people of I'll repute.

anthony weiner agrees

 

[themirrorthief]

Based on a survey of 1000 adults in 7 countries and analyzed on a "right wing authoritarian scale" developed by somebody named Bob Altemeyer. The only disturbing thing is that tin foil hat lefties really believe this stuff.

I went so far as to take the survey. No surprise, the questions are intentionally and obviously slanted to cast conservative opinions as “authoritarian” and LIbEral opinions as non-authoritarian. An experiment willfully crafted to produce a preselected result.

duh

 

[MarcATL]

Thread summary:

Right wing authoritarian-followers -- fascist lackeys, that is -- get very triggered whenever their fascist lackey status is highlighted.

Basically.

 

[woodwork201]

A Disturbing Number of Americans Have Right-Wing Authoritarian Views

A new poll shows a higher percentage of people in the U.S. qualify as "highly right-wing authoritarian" compared to other Western countries.

www.vice.com

Maybe because the research is bullshit

Of course the research is bullshit. The concept of right-wing authoritarian is an absurd concept. There are those who pretend to be right wing but are actually fascist authoritarians - I could list a few - but it's not possible to be a right-wing authoritarian. I mean, how would that work?

"No, you can't pay more taxes. You must accept lower taxes or else!"

"No we won't take the money you earned by the sweat of your brow and give it to lazy good-for-nothings sitting on the couch all day; you have to keep your own money. Period. Or else!"

Authoritarianism is something you find in left-wing fascists, socialists, and communists. They are those who think they know best, better than you, what's good for you and will force their will on you. Those are not right-wing; they are not conservatives.

 

[2aguy]

Based on a survey of 1000 adults in 7 countries and analyzed on a "right wing authoritarian scale" developed by somebody named Bob Altemeyer. The only disturbing thing is that tin foil hat lefties really believe this stuff.

they dont believe it, it is simply a tool they ise to attack their enemies

 

[2aguy]

A Disturbing Number of Americans Have Right-Wing Authoritarian Views

A new poll shows a higher percentage of people in the U.S. qualify as "highly right-wing authoritarian" compared to other Western countries.

www.vice.com

Maybe because the research is bullshit

Of course the research is bullshit. The concept of right-wing authoritarian is an absurd concept. There are those who pretend to be right wing but are actually fascist authoritarians - I could list a few - but it's not possible to be a right-wing authoritarian. I mean, how would that work?

"No, you can't pay more taxes. You must accept lower taxes or else!"

"No we won't take the money you earned by the sweat of your brow and give it to lazy good-for-nothings sitting on the couch all day; you have to keep your own money. Period. Or else!"

Authoritarianism is something you find in left-wing fascists, socialists, and communists. They are those who think they know best, better than you, what's good for you and will force their will on you. Those are not right-wing; they are not conservatives.

yep.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

Based on a survey of 1000 adults in 7 countries and analyzed on a "right wing authoritarian scale" developed by somebody named Bob Altemeyer. The only disturbing thing is that tin foil hat lefties really believe this stuff.

I went so far as to take the survey. No surprise, the questions are intentionally and obviously slanted to cast conservative opinions as “authoritarian” and LIbEral opinions as non-authoritarian. An experiment willfully crafted to produce a preselected result.

Wow, thanks for posting the link to the survey. It's laughably transparent that this survey was designed to serve a specific political agenda - to associate certain statements that were generally "Republican" platform positions in 1981 when this was made, with "authoritarianism" in order to paint Republicans as fascists and claim it's supported by "science."

Just look at how most of the questions are structured as compound statements that include a series of concepts/positions, separated by commas. It prompts you to respond to each statement by choosing one of the 9 responses ranging from "Very Strongly Agree" to "Very Strongly Disagree." The laughable part is the outlandish false equivalencies in the compound statements, such as starting with a general statement about believing in religion, followed by a statement that the government should get rid of all the bad people. So you can only select one response to identify whether you agree/disagree even though the question asserts wildly divergent positions. Also, there's tons of ambiguity, with undefined terms like "bad people," and with no detail about who determines that, or whether due process is afforded prior to the government "getting rid of" them, or what "get rid of" means. What if you strongly agree with the first part, but strongly disagree with (or don't understand) the second part? Do you split the difference and choose "neutral"? Do you just respond to the part that resonates most strongly with you, especially if the other concepts are vague? Or do you prioritize responding to the negative concepts?

There's no solution that will provide even remotely accurate insight into what this survey claims. I suspect that most people would use some combination of the methods I mentioned, probably most often selecting the response based on the part that resonates the most while disregarding the ambiguous stuff, or choosing 'neutral' when it lists conflicting concepts. In essence, this produces junk data and has absolutely no objective utility. I could tweak this survey to make any group/culture/profession that has a few discernible characteristics register as fascist authoritarians. What a joke.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

Perfect example of the inherently flawed nature of this survey, starting with the asinine attempt to associate "authoritarian" with "right wing" as that term is used in modern western political theory. Here's a leftist who responded based on typical leftist viewpoints and it registered as "right-wing authoritarian" on this survey (emphasis added) lol:


Conner Clark
I definitely think some of the vague wordings would seem to technical agreement that may increase authoritarianism - but it's not necessarily right wing. This isn't word-for-word quoting, but do I agree we need a "strong leader to get us through our current crisis"? Sure, that's why I'm voting to oust the weak and incompetent Trump. Do I think "the authorities" should "put certain troublemakers out of actions" - like alt-right/militia gangs? Heck yes. I mean I don't want them all shot without trial or anything, but I own that I'm willing to put more faith in *scientific* authorities on things like mask mandates. Does that make me more authoitarian? I guess, probably.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

A Disturbing Number of Americans Have Right-Wing Authoritarian Views

A new poll shows a higher percentage of people in the U.S. qualify as "highly right-wing authoritarian" compared to other Western countries.

www.vice.com

Maybe because the research is bullshit

Can't have Right Wing Authoritarianism, but Socialist Authoritarianism is OK.

 

[initforme]

Authoritarianism never has a good outcome for a group of people.

 

[woodwork201]

And how can people in 7 countries claim that right-wing authoritarianism is on the rise in the United States? The opinions of only one country count and in that country, this one, to be specific, opinions are like assholes... the Internet's full of both. The opinions only reflect things that people are hearing from the left when Eric Garland (thank God he didn't get on the Supreme Court) and his puppet master, Joe Biden, echo the words of Biden's puppet masters at BLM to claim that white supremacists are the biggest threat, out of every threat in the world, even nuclear war or even climate change, to the United States of America.

Damn, that's a long compound sentence. Just read it thoroughly.