Author: Adam Mill Via American Greatness
The Views of the Author are not necessarily the Views of Enigmose
On Wednesday, the New York Times published an opinion column by Thomas B. Edsall warning, “The Whole of Liberal Democracy is in Grave Danger at This Moment.” Like many pieces in the Times lately, this was a particularly laughable exercise in intellectual projection that nevertheless hints at the darker agenda of the Left: a one-party “democracy.”
Edsall first congratulates the Left for its open-mindedness and willingness to change convictions based upon evidence. Yep, that’s the hallmark of the modern Left: open-mindedness and a willingness to entertain evidence that challenges their beliefs. He cites a new paper out of Canada with a monstrously long title that amounts to an academic hit job on the “irrationality” of non-Leftists. On closer examination, the paper’s cited studies actually measure how people on the Left are much more likely to absorb the dogmatic assumptions of the Left and much less likely to tolerate controversial speech that challenges those assumptions.
The authors write, “Individuals who believe that beliefs should change according to evidence were: a) less likely to . . . [be] religious (and, specifically, theistic),” and “b) less likely to hold traditional moral values.” Contrary to Edsall’s assessment that conservatives are hostile to science, the paper also notes, “The correlation with conservative opinions and pro-science beliefs . . . were well above the 95th percentile.”
The test used a measurement called the Actively Open-Minded Thinking (or AOT) scale. Liberals, the paper notes, scored very poorly on the AOT scale on the question of free speech—agreeing with such statements as, “students should be able to block controversial speakers from giving talks at their university.” Conservatives, on the other hand, “more strongly disagreed” with censorship of “controversial” speech.
When one reviews the paper’s underlying studies, one quickly realizes that the investigators were not measuring “actively open-minded thinking,” but whether the test subjects properly absorbed the leftist assumptions the testers also assumed to be true. Thus, a student could receive a higher score for agreeing with statements about global warming and “microaggressions.”
Conservatives, the paper argued, were more likely to believe in “conspiracy theories.” What’s a “conspiracy theory?” The only example provided by the authors was a belief that “A small, secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war.” So, for example, a conspiracy theorist would question why the United States remains in Afghanistan in spite of public opposition to continuing the war.
The problem for Edsall is that too many people are receiving unapproved messages. Citing a Harvard study apparently commissioned to justify internet censorship, he writes, “While any group can come to believe false information, misinformation is currently predominantly a pathology of the right. Some conservative voters are even suspicious of fact-checking sites, leaving them particularly susceptible to misinformation.” Might that be because so many “fact checks” are hopelessly partisan?
So what exactly is the threat to democracy that has Edsall so excited? You only need one guess: Donald Trump. Full Article @ American Greatness
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