Right Wing Authoritarianism - A serious disorder

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Woke up early tonight and got to researching on the web and find this interesting piece I thought I would share. It is an essay about Right Wing Authoritarianism, which some believe to be a disorder which if one is brave enough to visit FreeRepublic.com, can clearly see why it is dangerous and a disorder. Link to full article below.

Altemeyer discovered a wide range of correlations over the years, which can be organized into four general categories. (The Authoritarian Specter)

1: Faulty reasoning — RWAs are more likely to:

Make many incorrect inferences from evidence.
Hold contradictory ideas leading them to ‘speak out of both sides of their mouths.’
Uncritically accept that many problems are ‘our most serious problem.’
Uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs.
Uncritically trust people who tell them what they want to hear.
Use many double standards in their thinking and judgements.
2: Hostility Toward Outgroups — RWAs are more likely to:

Weaken constitutional guarantees of liberty such as the Bill of Rights.
Severely punish ‘common’ criminals in a role-playing situation.
Admit they obtain personal pleasure from punishing such people.
Be prejudiced against racial, ethnic, nationalistic, and linguistic minorities.
Be hostile toward homosexuals.
Volunteer to help the government persecute almost anyone.
Be mean-spirited toward those who have made mistakes and suffered.
3: Profound Character Attributes — RWAs are more likely to:

Be dogmatic.
Be zealots.
Be hypocrites.
Be bullies when they have power over others.
Help cause and inflame intergroup conflict.
Seek dominance over others by being competitive and destructive in situations requiring cooperation.
4: Blindness To One’s Own Failings And To The Failings Of Authority Figures whom They Respect— RWAs are more likely to:

Believe they have no personal failings.
Avoid learning about their personal failings.
Be highly self-righteous.
Use religion to erase guilt over their acts and to maintain their self-righteousness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Wing_Authoritarianism

[seemslikeadream]

1. so so true

Man arrested in fake anthrax attacks an avid free republic poster


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2701099&mesg_id=2701099

[xchrom]

2. you might want to read alice miller's book on german family life

pre-nazi era.

[sam sarrha]

3. it is called Apriori Logic.. it creates a perceptual loop that always comes to the same conclusion

it is the basis of fundamental religion, juvenile delinquency, the major cause for people being sent to jail..

Apriori logic doesn't work very well in the real world.. the problems it creates are externalized and blamed on others... never the cause of the problems.. believing in DOGMA.

it is invincible ignorance.. you cant talk to these people it is frequently unsafe to have an intellectual interaction.. because they operate on an primitive emotional lever..

research has shown that art, music as learning to play an instrument with a teacher, repetitious exercise and meditation will restructure the brain back to the way it was designed to function

apriori is a system of believing in something on limited/selected or incorrect information without checking the validity of the information.. it is also known as 'Information Disease'

i can become a psychosis like Bu$h .. where they self righteously kill others.. whether in ovens or Faux wars or lynching..Etc etc

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. I've always referred to it as circular reasoning

Like the statement, "the bible is true." How do you know it is true? Because the bible says it is true.

It's like did these people think the bible would say, all of the following you are about to read is BS but we thought it was a pretty good line of BS so we went ahead and wrote it down.