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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 7 2013, 11:38 AM (465 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Mar 7 2013, 10:40 PM Post #11 |
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Nope, just shooting down your ludicrous claim that authoritarianism is left, which you know damned well it isn't. The point is it has nothing to do with left or right, but then again you knew that didn't you. Unless of course you really are as stupid as you appear. |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 7 2013, 10:41 PM Post #12 |
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Bottom, line. History has shown repeatedly that being authoritarian has absolutely nothing to do with right and left. Both extremes have spawned authoritarian leaders and governments. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 7 2013, 10:43 PM Post #13 |
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Sure, you know that, I know that, but apparently Mr copy & paste has his head so far up right wing blog asses, he can't see any light of sensibility. |
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| Berton | Mar 7 2013, 10:44 PM Post #14 |
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"Regrettably, however, we have known since Galileo that the popularity of a belief is no guarantee of its truth. And The Authoritarian Personality must hold some sort of record for the amount of criticism and disconfirmatory research that it has attracted. There are various summaries of this body of criticism but the first half of Altemeyer's (1981) book and Ray (1988) give a pretty good idea of it. And what the various criticisms have repeatedly shown is that only the most trivially true contentions of the Adorno theory survive the encounter with empirical testing. The most basic postulates of the theory are just plain wrong." Try opening your eyes for a change. |
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| Berton | Mar 7 2013, 10:46 PM Post #15 |
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"The theory that would seem to have the widest explanatory power is that Leftist advocacy serves ego needs. It is submitted here that the major psychological reason why Leftists so zealously criticize the existing order and advocate change is in order to feed a pressing need for self-inflation and ego-boosting -- and ultimately for power, the greatest ego boost of all. They need public attention; they need to demonstrate outrage; they need to feel wiser and kinder and more righteous than most of their fellow man. They fancy for themselves the heroic role of David versus Goliath. They need to show that they are in the small club of the virtuous and the wise so that they can nobly instruct and order about their less wise and less virtuous fellow-citizens. Their need is a pressing need for attention, for self-advertisement and self-promotion -- generally in the absence of any real claims in that direction. They are people who need to feel important and who are aggrieved at their lack of recognition and power. One is tempted to hypothesize that, when they were children, their mothers didn't look when they said, "Mummy, look at me"." |
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| Deleted User | Mar 7 2013, 11:01 PM Post #16 |
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You remind me of that Bizzarro planet from the old superman comics, although I think yours make that one look normal in comparison. I don't think I have ever encountered someone who lives in such a fantasy world as you appear to. All I can do is shake my head and feel sorry for someone like you, who is trapped in a one dimensional universe. |
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| Brewster | Mar 8 2013, 12:38 AM Post #17 |
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He may be trapped, but it's a trap of his own making. I have never met anyone who makes such a concentrated effort to avoid learning anything that doesn't match his preconcieved ideas. |
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| Berton | Mar 8 2013, 01:49 AM Post #18 |
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Speaking of not being able to learn anything new is a very good description of the left on this board. Instead of discussing the information in the article all you do is continue with your childish name calling and insults. Edited by Berton, Mar 8 2013, 01:50 AM.
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| Deleted User | Mar 8 2013, 03:17 AM Post #19 |
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Pretty hard to reason with someone who is trying to revise history to his own making. Fortunately, most recognize a right wing nut case when they see one. |
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| Neutral | Mar 8 2013, 04:17 AM Post #20 |
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Most recognize teflon when they see it. |
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