Comments on: The Authoritarian Dynamic

By: Coyote

Coyote — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:36:58 +0000

r/K explanations in evolutionary psychology make this subject of in-group and out-group more approachable. Check out Anonymous Conservative.

By: Candide III

Candide III — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:39:22 +0000

And how is “authoritarian dynamic” better as an explanation? It’s the same trick as with the postwar “authoritarian personality”: declare some traits pathological when they manifest in a particular way but not in another way. I was disappointed when I read that bit about “authoritarian dynamic” and “authoritarians” in Haidt’s essay. He really ought to know better. Don’t liberals, or globalists, or whatever he calls them, have these buttons on their foreheads? Don’t they have a psychological predisposition to become intolerant when they perceive a certain kind of threat? They become intensely focused on defending their in-group, kicking out foreignersout-group and non-conformists, and stamping out dissent within the group, as well or better than any rube or racist. Etc. Mutatis mutandis, you can basically repeat the whole argument.

By: Candide III

Candide III — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:37:56 +0000

And how is “authoritarian dynamic” better as an explanation? It’s the same trick as with the postwar “authoritarian personality”: declare some traits pathological when they manifest in a particular way but not in another way. I was disappointed when I read that bit about “authoritarian dynamic” and “authoritarians” in Haidt’s essay. He really ought to know better. Don’t liberals, or globalists, or whatever he calls them, have these buttons on their foreheads? Don’t they have a psychological predisposition to become intolerant when they perceive a certain kind of threat? They become intensely focused on defending their in-group, kicking out foreignersout-group and non-conformists, and stamping out dissent within the group. Etc. Mutatis mutandis, you can basically repeat the whole argument.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:56:04 +0000

Xenophobe is much more sinister, because a phobia is an irrational fear of something that poses no actual danger, so the implication is that we are sick, that something is medically wrong with us, by merely having politically incorrect thoughts, like back in the USSR.

The angry whitey meme plays on the same angle: if you would only calm down and think things through calmly, you would of course be a liberal and support mass migration; hence we can dismiss you outright, if you don’t.

I guess racism is a type of anxiety disorder, but there are pills for that! It’s like pest control asking if you have arachnophobia, when you call to report finding a million spiders crawling around your home. Sexist, racist, and the likes are all a play on that, serve the same purpose, to dismiss outright.