Does Smart Equal Liberal?. Most stupid people are Conservatives!
Robert Peffers
*cough* Canadian Alliance Party of Canada *cough* Conservative Party
of Canada is a hotbed for ignorant, common, low class, blue collar,
working class, pedestrian level, uneducated, unenlightened,
untraveled, redneck, trailer trash who also
tend to be racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, anti-
Quebec, anti-bilingual, anti-immigrant,
anti-multicultural, anti-tax, pro-gun, anti-affirmative action, anti-
women's rights, anti-abortion rights, anti-gay rights, anti-science,
anti-progressive, and utterly backwards angry white males.
You've probably heard the line from John Stuart Mill that "while it is
not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is indeed true
that most stupid people are conservatives". Well, now there's a study
that seems to support this:
-Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
Does Smart Equal Liberal?
Friday, January 11, 2008
By Wray Herbert
Nobody thinks their own values and attitudes are foolish. It goes
against human nature. Say you meet someone who believes that a woman’s
proper place is in the home. And say, for the purposes of argument,
that you firmly believe this as well. You are going to assume that
this person who shares this core value is intelligent, that this
attitude is a reflection of reason and mental acuity. Or say you meet
someone who shares your concern for the natural environment. You will
automatically conclude that this new acquaintance must be a
sophisticated thinker. At the very least, you are not going to think,
hey, he’s a lot like me, he must be stupid.
Given that this is true, how can we ever know if some values are more
intelligent, more reasoned, or more cognitively sophisticated than
others? Put another way, does native intelligence lead to a certain
set of values, and stupidity to another worldview altogether?
Surprisingly, this fundamental question has never been examined
scientifically—until now. Psychologist Ian Deary of the University of
Edinburgh realized he could explore the link between IQ and values
using a very large existing data base on kids who were born in 1970.
These boys and girls, more than 7000 of them, had all taken IQ tests
at the age of ten, so he was able to sort out the bright kids from
their duller classmates. These kids had then been tracked and
interviewed repeatedly for two decades, so there was a rich record of
not only their education and work lives but also their basic attitudes
and beliefs: on race, gender equality, the environment, the sanctity
of marriage, and so forth. In short, Deary wanted to see what kind of
people they turned into at age 30, as they stood on the cusp of the
21st century.
Not to put too fine a point on it: The smartest kids turned into the
most broad-minded and progressive adults. For example, the most
intelligent kids turned out 20 years later to be much more tolerant of
other races. They were also much more supportive of working mothers,
rejecting the notion that pre-school children will suffer without a
stay-at-home mother. In general, the sharpest kids came to embrace
much less traditional moral values and were much more apt to challenge
authority. They were also much less cynical as adults, more trusting
that the political system can do good.
Why would native intelligence translate into a more enlightened
worldview later on? One obvious possibility is that the smarter kids
end up getting a better education; they read more books and newspapers
and are exposed to a richer culture of ideas. But the data, reported
in the January issue of Psychological Science, don’t appear to support
this explanation.
Instead, it appears to be something about the intelligent brain
itself: Smart people may have a different emotional makeup, a
personality that is more open to experience. Or it may be that high IQ
at age ten eventually leads to more complex moral reasoning: In short,
smart people alone may have the cognitive machinery that’s needed for
more flexible analysis of political and moral quandaries.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/2008/01/does-smart-equal-liberal.cfm
John Fleming
desk in the scriptorium Robert Peffers
<auldbobp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Reform Party of Canada
> $*cough*
[snip]
Peffers, I don't normally wish ill to people in Usenet, but
in your case I'll make an exception and say that, whatever
it is that's causing that cough, I sure hope it is
metastatic.
Now FOAD you stupid fuck.
--
John Fleming
Edmonton, Canada
Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
Canuck57
[ snip ]
Liberal: Welcher, dreamer to a point of dilusion. Debtor. Lower than
average rational throught process unless it involves extending credit or
whining for governrment assistance. Entitlement menality disorder often
associated with being Liberal.
Dudley Hanks
"John Fleming" <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote in message
news:fiuuf5pnlm0tjqgdl...@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:23:41 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
> desk in the scriptorium Robert Peffers
> <auldbobp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> $I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Reform Party of Canada
>> $*cough*
>
> [snip]
>
> Peffers, I don't normally wish ill to people in Usenet, but
> in your case I'll make an exception and say that, whatever
> it is that's causing that cough, I sure hope it is
> metastatic.
>
> Now FOAD you stupid fuck.
>
> --
>
> John Fleming
But, John, why'd you snip the article...? I found it quite amusing... :)
Take Care,
Dudley
John Fleming
the scriptorium "Dudley Hanks" <dha...@blind-apertures.ca>
wrote:
> $"John Fleming" <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote in message
> $news:fiuuf5pnlm0tjqgdl...@4ax.com...
> $> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:23:41 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
> $> desk in the scriptorium Robert Peffers
> $> <auldbobp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $>
> $>> $I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Reform Party of Canada
> $>> $*cough*
> $>
> $> [snip]
> $>
> $> Peffers, I don't normally wish ill to people in Usenet, but
> $> in your case I'll make an exception and say that, whatever
> $> it is that's causing that cough, I sure hope it is
> $> metastatic.
> $>
> $> Now FOAD you stupid fuck.
> $
> $But, John, why'd you snip the article...? I found it quite amusing... :)
I trim quoted material to just what is necessary to put my
comments into some kind of context. If people want more,
most newsreaders allow a person to look at earlier posts in
a thread.
Dudley Hanks
Your trim definitely added context ... :)
Take Care,
Dudley
euno...@yahoo.com.au
wrote:
> I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Reform Party of Canada
> *cough* Canadian Alliance Party of Canada *cough* Conservative Party
> of Canada is a hotbed for ignorant, common, low class, blue collar,
> working class, pedestrian level, uneducated, unenlightened,
> untraveled, redneck, trailer trash who also
> tend to be racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, anti-
> Quebec, anti-bilingual, anti-immigrant,
> anti-multicultural, anti-tax, pro-gun, anti-affirmative action, anti-
> women's rights, anti-abortion rights, anti-gay rights, anti-science,
> anti-progressive, and utterly backwards angry white males.
The first thing to note about this article is that its not about
science or reporting on a valid scientific investigation.
Secondly it propurts to link certain values as "progressive" or
"liberal" and associate those with "left wing" ideals and to also
associate them with economic success.
What we are seeing is an ethno-macist hatchet job.
For instance educated conservatives and professionals have no problem
with educatiing women or allowing them to pursue a carear. But this
political pseudo-science effectively defines anyone of significant
income or education as a left/liberal. Nor do conservatives spend
energy 'hating' non White immigrants. They may not favour affirmitive
action 'racial quotas'. Basicially the definition of liberal/left
and life achiecement versus conservative is twisted such that it is
biased. The hallmarks of being a successull person is arbitraritly
defined as being left.
It doesn't take much thinking abillity to see the logical flaws of
Robert Peffers rant.
Secondly what we see is a deep spitiefull hatred of the working class,
presumably the White working class. The lunar-left has rejected the
working class in favour of activism for racial minorities,
immigration, affirmitive action etc. It's not suprise that the
working classes feeling abandoned are begining to sway away from the
lunar-left. That an the destruction that is happening to their
suburbs and workplaces that is caused by immigration.
Most of this ethno-marxist nonsense comes out of holocaust haunted
left wing jews and academics residing in the USA. Political
Correctness favouring immigration, claiming shamefull prejudice
amongst whites, is their way fighting the ethnic homgenity of Whites
they are uncomfortable with without displaying open hostility.
But why invite the US political problems into Canada?
Robert Peffers is a quite a spitefull person. A troll who thinks that
because he pretends to be an 'anti-racist' that it allows him to be an
rude, ugly, bigot.
Canuck57
>> $But, John, why'd you snip the article...? I found it quite amusing... :)
>
> I trim quoted material to just what is necessary to put my
> comments into some kind of context. If people want more,
> most newsreaders allow a person to look at earlier posts in
> a thread.
Quite true, good trimming is a sign of a good response. You took the
time to prepare your response.
Pat Bay
"Robert Peffers" <auldbobp...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:cbcc3305-2232-49d7...@m35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Reform Party of Canada
*cough* Canadian Alliance Party of Canada *cough* Conservative Party
of Canada is a hotbed for ignorant, common, low class, blue collar,
working class, pedestrian level, uneducated, unenlightened,
untraveled, redneck, trailer trash who also
tend to be racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, anti-
Quebec, anti-bilingual, anti-immigrant,
anti-multicultural, anti-tax, pro-gun, anti-affirmative action, anti-
women's rights, anti-abortion rights, anti-gay rights, anti-science,
anti-progressive, and utterly backwards angry white males.
There are incredibily stupid people who are Liberals and also incredibily
stupid people who are NDPers.
So are Liberals a hotbed for ignorant nose up in the air conceited and
arrgoant people?
whitebread
"Canuck57" <Canu...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:ahLLm.2586$kY2....@newsfe01.iad...
But you have to admit that the Liberals kept the economy on track, more people employed,
and fewer miltary involvements that helped make the deficit that we're all feeling now.
It's the Harper government, much like the past Conservative governments, that have always
made a mess of the country. No bloody wonder the Liberals ruled for so long - the Cons
always leave a legacy of destruction and debt.
Canuck57
Bullshit. They had as much to do with this as anyone, maybe more. In
fact, I will predict liberal provinces will suffer more due to their
propensity of loving debt and the misguided belief that yo can spend
your way out of debt.
Hey, the day the Liberals win, I will quit my job, retire and let some
other sucker pay the stupid government.