Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says controversial study - and conservative politics can lead people to be racist | Mail Online
QUOTE:'In psychological terms, the relation between intelligence and prejudice may stem from the propensity of individuals with lower cognitive ability to endorse more right wing conservative ideologies because such ideologies offer a psychological sense of stability and order.'Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html#ixzz1lNtGxA1P
And (whether or not you believe the line), THIS, my fellow-me-ladies is precisely where intellectual shamanism comes in: challenging the assumption that a psychological sense of stability and order has a primary, intrinsic worth (without further justifying criteria).
There ARE things more worthy of human endeavor, one or two.
There ARE things more worthy of human endeavor, one or two.
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