chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Again, carry on insulting Tories and all those who vote for them. That desperate tactic is clearly very well for the Labour Party🤡 Only last month Tony Blair (the last leader I ever voted for in an election) said the Labour Party is being destroyed by the Woke Left. You only have to watch the daily live coverage of the Commons to see what a train wreck of party it's become. Completely obsessed with their ever more extreme identity politics, relentlessly attacking the indigenous population for being horribly racist, and then they expect those very people they attack day in day out, to go out and vote for them in elections. There's a genuine, seething hatred for Britain's past as well as it's present amongst far too many in that party and they are getting what they deserve in election after election.😡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, chippy said: Again, carry on insulting Tories and all those who vote for them. That desperate tactic is clearly very well for the Labour Party🤡 Only last month Tony Blair (the last leader I ever voted for in an election) said the Labour Party is being destroyed by the Woke Left. You only have to watch the daily live coverage of the Commons to see what a train wreck of party it's become. Completely obsessed with their ever more extreme identity politics, relentlessly attacking the indigenous population for being horribly racist, and then they expect those very people they attack day in day out, to go out and vote for them in elections. There's a genuine, seething hatred for Britain's past as well as it's present amongst far too many in that party and they are getting what they deserve in election after election.😡 The "class war" and the "working class struggle" are copyright slogans of the left - marka depositata. Yet it is the Tories who enact the class war. Do you know why we have no flat fare in the London tube ? All the tube systems around the world have flat fare except London. This is done so as to prevent the lower classes to move into the high class areas of the town. Or has a brick layer ever attempted to take part in fox hunting in the country ? It is therefore the Tories who do the "class war" and "class struggle" rather than the other way around. My views on the Tories are objective. It is true that such beliefs are shared by the Corbynite left of the Labour party but what does that mean ? If I was born in the 19th century and believed in the theory of relativity while all the others believed in the ether except for some so called weirdo leftists, what could that mean ? That the theory of relativity is wrong and the theory of luminiferous ether is right ? It could n't. The Tories (Ukipites nowadays) are the shame of the world. Edited June 12, 2021 by cosmicway Fulham Broadway and Vesper 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,231 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 2 hours ago, chippy said: Again, carry on insulting Tories and all those who vote for them. That desperate tactic is clearly very well for the Labour Party🤡 Only last month Tony Blair (the last leader I ever voted for in an election) said the Labour Party is being destroyed by the Woke Left. You only have to watch the daily live coverage of the Commons to see what a train wreck of party it's become. Completely obsessed with their ever more extreme identity politics, relentlessly attacking the indigenous population for being horribly racist, and then they expect those very people they attack day in day out, to go out and vote for them in elections. There's a genuine, seething hatred for Britain's past as well as it's present amongst far too many in that party and they are getting what they deserve in election after election.😡 I am going to start calling you Oswald, as obviously you were born far too late you would have made a perfect fluffer for Mosley 'Woke Left' is a RIGHT WING construct, a false framing slur as if it somehow wrong or evil to strive for racial equality and fair play same for the ludicrous negative spin simply for being anti-fascist you are a white nationalist nob, a parrot trapped in your role of both endlessly and mindlessly repeating ad nauseum the bilge spewed out by corporate-fascists, who lead marks like you around by the nose all you have is repetitive sloganeering when I read your dross, this is the image that comes to mind it's plonkers like you who make the UK smaller and more irrelevant as each year goes by if you actually think the now off-the-cliff, white grievance-clinging Tories are the saviours of working class Britain, the you are even more stupid than you have already faced up as since you started shit-posting here Fulham Broadway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 hour ago, cosmicway said: The "class war" and the "working class struggle" are copyright slogans of the left - marka depositata. Yet it is the Tories who enact the class war. Do you know why we have no flat fare in the London tube ? All the tube systems around the world have flat fare except London. This is done so as to prevent the lower classes to move into the high class areas of the town. Or has a brick layer ever attempted to take part in fox hunting in the country ? It is therefore the Tories who do the "class war" and "class struggle" rather than the other way around. My views on the Tories are objective. It is true that such beliefs are shared by the Corbynite left of the Labour party but what does that mean ? If I was born in the 19th century and believed in the theory of relativity while all the others believed in the ether except for some so called weirdo leftists, what could that mean ? That the theory of relativity is wrong and the theory of luminiferous ether is right ? It could n't. The Tories (Ukipites nowadays) are the shame of the world. Comrade Khan and TFL are the ones in charge of the tube trains, not the government. Anyway, I'm just glad I'm not a Leftie living in a country where their backward thinking ideology has and is being so massively rejected and populated by tens of millions of people which you have such contempt and hatred. Tis why I think the best way forward is to break up countries like ours and the USA. Give you your own country and get on with it. Just think, no more bogey men to blame for your life being shit. Your world will be perfect. Can have bestest person of the week competitions and everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, chippy said: Comrade Khan and TFL are the ones in charge of the tube trains, not the government. Anyway, I'm just glad I'm not a Leftie living in a country where their backward thinking ideology has and is being so massively rejected and populated by tens of millions of people which you have such contempt and hatred. Tis why I think the best way forward is to break up countries like ours and the USA. Give you your own country and get on with it. Just think, no more bogey men to blame for your life being shit. Your world will be perfect. Can have bestest person of the week competitions and everything. The left are brexiters - Bojo's allies. You could n't win without them - given that Cameron with his 2016 stance is likely to have carried some of the party with him. Some of them are into "German type socialism" - the Aryan race and all that. The so called red wall. I stand for Europe and in Europe the left is a relic of the last century. If we were to dissolve the EU then there would be a war in time dt. The Tories know it too but there is nothing they can do - they have been ukipized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,231 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) This is the way the RW rolls, creating bullshit memes and fake 'astroturfed' movements, then getting idiots like Oswald here to buy into a ginned up fake story, one with racist underpinnings in this (and far too many others) case. They buy in by the tens of millions via social and mainstream RW media. The framing is thus set in stone and the RW-started divisions and hatred continue to increase in both size and rage-intensity. A new RW talking point/slogan for gits like him to spew about is thus born: Researcher Uncovers 'Critical Race Theory' Astroturfing Campaign Berman and Company admitted it is the organization behind a campaign protesting against New York City schools curricula. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5g5ny/researcher-uncovers-critical-race-theory-astroturfing-campaign Rick Berman, an infamous right-wing lobbyist whose organizations have been accused of several astroturfing campaigns—and who is known as "Dr. Evil"—revealed that his firm is behind an organization that claimed to be a grass-roots movement against New York City's prep schools focus on "diversity education." Last week, the New York Post reported on a "group of parents" that was planning to show billboards showing messages such as "DIVERSITY NOT INDOCTRINATION" and "WOKE SCHOOL? SPEAK OUT." The Post's story is centered around and features Prep School Accountability, which describes itself on its official website as "a group of concerned parents." "In recent years, a new orthodoxy has emerged at our schools, dividing our communities based on immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. As a result, the core tenets of high-quality education—uniting all children and families through a love and appreciation for learning and community spirit—have gone by the wayside," the Prep School Accountability website reads. Prep School Accountability is soliciting parents to share their stories "If you or your child have witnessed concerning content or been part of a troubling experience regarding NYC prep school curricula" via a form. The group did not respond to an email sent through that form. Nowhere on the site is there any reference to Rick Berman and his right-wing lobbying firm Berman and Co. The site mentions the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), but specifies that PrepSchoolAccountability.com is not affiliated with FAIR. FAIR did not respond to a request for comment. On Thursday, a researcher who specializes in open source intelligence investigations, published a post detailing evidence that he claimed showed Berman and Company was behind Prep School Accountability. The researcher, who goes by Z3dster, found a handful of non-public author pages on the Prep School Accountability website, which is built with WordPress. The author pages belonged to: Charlyce Bozzello, whom the researcher identified as the Communications Director for the Center for Union Facts, an organization that is also run by Rick Berman. A Twitter account with the same name describes herself as “Just a New Yorker who left NY and can't remember why.” Someone with the last name Petriccione, who appears to be Christy Petriccione, a Communications Associate at Berman and Company, according to a profile found here. When Motherboard reached out to Berman and Company's email address displayed on the firm's official site, Bozzello responded. In her email, she included a statement attributed to Berman: "With support from a diverse group of concerned parents in New York, we launched the Prep School Accountability project. The schools’ defensive response to such an uncontroversial message—teach students how to think, not what to think—shows the overwhelming need for the project. It also explains why most of the parents supporting this project chose not to be identified right now for fear of retaliation or being 'canceled.' As the group grows, we expect more parent supporters will choose to be identified publicly." Do you have more information about this campaign? We’d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, lorenzofb on Wickr and Telegram, or email [email protected]. As Fox News reported on Monday, the group founded by Berman drove at least one van in front of a New York City prep school. Fox News described the group as "some fed-up parents here in New York City taking it to the next level" and as "anonymous parents." The Fox News segment does not mention Berman or his firms. A New York Post also published a follow-up story reporting on the vans showing up at several schools. Just like in the first story, there is no mention of Berman, and the campaign is described as a "$10,000 campaign, which was coordinated by an anonymous group Prep School Accountability." A Twitter account called @uwsparents posted a video of the van on the same day. The account has 7 followers and is following 2 accounts, and was created in May 2021. The person or persons behind the account did not respond to a Tweet asking to establish contact in order to ask for comment. Z3dster also lays out evidence showing apparent fake Twitter accounts linked to the campaign. "This is fairly cut and dry inauthentic behavior: the site isn’t who they say they are and their followers aren’t who they appear to be," he wrote. It looks like Twitter agrees. As of Friday, the official Twitter account of the Prep School Accountability group was suspended. A Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard that the account “was permanently suspended” for violating the platform’s manipulation and spam policy. Bozzello, Berman, and Company's spokesperson, did not respond to a follow-up email asking whether the organization used fake Twitter accounts to boost the campaign. It's unclear if the New York Post was aware of Berman's involvement. A spokesperson for the paper did not respond to a request for comment. The author, Dana Kennedy, said in an email that she was "not familiar with the information cited in your email." The campaign appears to have gathered the support of some people. Bozzello sent a statement attributed to Andrew Gutmann. In April, Gutmann gathered the attention of Fox News and other conservative outlets when he wrote a letter to fellow parents at the Brearley school in Manhattan. Gutmann shared the letter with former The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss. At the time, Guttmann announced he decided to pull his daughter from the school after seven years, complaining about the school's "antiracism initiatives," arguing that "Brearley’s obsession with race must stop." "I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country," he wrote in the letter. "I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” In the statement sent to Motherboard, Guttmann said that "Prep School Accountability is a much-needed parent-supported effort that has been applauded by parents across the city. I support the parents behind this initiative and have connected with them about our shared concerns over what's going on in NYC's private schools. I hope to continue to work with the group to amplify the voices of parents who want to see diversity done better at NYC's independent schools and at schools across the country." Edited June 12, 2021 by Vesper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, Vesper said: This is the way the RW rolls, creating bullshit memes and fake 'astroturfed' movements, then getting idiots like Oswald here to buy into a ginned up fake story (and one with racist underpinnings) by the millions. The framing is thus set in stone and the RW-started divisions and hatred continue to increase in both size and rage-intensity. A new RW talking point/slogan for gits like him to spew about is thus born: Researcher Uncovers 'Critical Race Theory' Astroturfing Campaign Berman and Company admitted it is the organization behind a campaign protesting against New York City schools curricula. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5g5ny/researcher-uncovers-critical-race-theory-astroturfing-campaign Rick Berman, an infamous right-wing lobbyist whose organizations have been accused of several astroturfing campaigns—and who is known as "Dr. Evil"—revealed that his firm is behind an organization that claimed to be a grass-roots movement against New York City's prep schools focus on "diversity education." Last week, the New York Post reported on a "group of parents" that was planning to show billboards showing messages such as "DIVERSITY NOT INDOCTRINATION" and "WOKE SCHOOL? SPEAK OUT." The Post's story is centered around and features Prep School Accountability, which describes itself on its official website as "a group of concerned parents." "In recent years, a new orthodoxy has emerged at our schools, dividing our communities based on immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. As a result, the core tenets of high-quality education—uniting all children and families through a love and appreciation for learning and community spirit—have gone by the wayside," the Prep School Accountability website reads. Prep School Accountability is soliciting parents to share their stories "If you or your child have witnessed concerning content or been part of a troubling experience regarding NYC prep school curricula" via a form. The group did not respond to an email sent through that form. Nowhere on the site is there any reference to Rick Berman and his right-wing lobbying firm Berman and Co. The site mentions the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), but specifies that PrepSchoolAccountability.com is not affiliated with FAIR. FAIR did not respond to a request for comment. On Thursday, a researcher who specializes in open source intelligence investigations, published a post detailing evidence that he claimed showed Berman and Company was behind Prep School Accountability. The researcher, who goes by Z3dster, found a handful of non-public author pages on the Prep School Accountability website, which is built with WordPress. The author pages belonged to: Charlyce Bozzello, whom the researcher identified as the Communications Director for the Center for Union Facts, an organization that is also run by Rick Berman. A Twitter account with the same name describes herself as “Just a New Yorker who left NY and can't remember why.” Someone with the last name Petriccione, who appears to be Christy Petriccione, a Communications Associate at Berman and Company, according to a profile found here. When Motherboard reached out to Berman and Company's email address displayed on the firm's official site, Bozzello responded. In her email, she included a statement attributed to Berman: "With support from a diverse group of concerned parents in New York, we launched the Prep School Accountability project. The schools’ defensive response to such an uncontroversial message—teach students how to think, not what to think—shows the overwhelming need for the project. It also explains why most of the parents supporting this project chose not to be identified right now for fear of retaliation or being 'canceled.' As the group grows, we expect more parent supporters will choose to be identified publicly." Do you have more information about this campaign? We’d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, lorenzofb on Wickr and Telegram, or email [email protected]. As Fox News reported on Monday, the group founded by Berman drove at least one van in front of a New York City prep school. Fox News described the group as "some fed-up parents here in New York City taking it to the next level" and as "anonymous parents." The Fox News segment does not mention Berman or his firms. A New York Post also published a follow-up story reporting on the vans showing up at several schools. Just like in the first story, there is no mention of Berman, and the campaign is described as a "$10,000 campaign, which was coordinated by an anonymous group Prep School Accountability." A Twitter account called @uwsparents posted a video of the van on the same day. The account has 7 followers and is following 2 accounts, and was created in May 2021. The person or persons behind the account did not respond to a Tweet asking to establish contact in order to ask for comment. Z3dster also lays out evidence showing apparent fake Twitter accounts linked to the campaign. "This is fairly cut and dry inauthentic behavior: the site isn’t who they say they are and their followers aren’t who they appear to be," he wrote. It looks like Twitter agrees. As of Friday, the official Twitter account of the Prep School Accountability group was suspended. A Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard that the account “was permanently suspended” for violating the platform’s manipulation and spam policy. Bozzello, Berman, and Company's spokesperson, did not respond to a follow-up email asking whether the organization used fake Twitter accounts to boost the campaign. It's unclear if the New York Post was aware of Berman's involvement. A spokesperson for the paper did not respond to a request for comment. The author, Dana Kennedy, said in an email that she was "not familiar with the information cited in your email." The campaign appears to have gathered the support of some people. Bozzello sent a statement attributed to Andrew Gutmann. In April, Gutmann gathered the attention of Fox News and other conservative outlets when he wrote a letter to fellow parents at the Brearley school in Manhattan. Gutmann shared the letter with former The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss. At the time, Guttmann announced he decided to pull his daughter from the school after seven years, complaining about the school's "antiracism initiatives," arguing that "Brearley’s obsession with race must stop." "I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country," he wrote in the letter. "I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” In the statement sent to Motherboard, Guttmann said that "Prep School Accountability is a much-needed parent-supported effort that has been applauded by parents across the city. I support the parents behind this initiative and have connected with them about our shared concerns over what's going on in NYC's private schools. I hope to continue to work with the group to amplify the voices of parents who want to see diversity done better at NYC's independent schools and at schools across the country." Astroturfing is the one man band rather. The use of multiple internet accounts to make it look like a crowd. It can be done for the same purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 minute ago, cosmicway said: The left are brexiters - Bojo's allies. You could n't win without them - given that Cameron with his 2016 stance is likely to have carried some of the party with him. Some of them are into "German type socialism" - the Aryan race and all that. The so called red wall. I stand for Europe and in Europe the left is a relic of the last century. If we were to dissolve the EU then there would be a war in time dt. The Tories know it too but there is nothing they can do - they have been ukipized. No doubt there's been some genuinely extreme right Tories in years gone by, but even those on the right of today's party are still pretty much nothing more than middle of the road libertarians. Quite a lot of today's party are actually very socially liberal, with the most diverse cabnet in the history of this country! It's really just economic policies which seperate most of them from the average liberal or right wing Labour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,231 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Just now, chippy said: No doubt there's been some genuinely extreme right Tories in years gone by, but even those on the right of today's party are still pretty much nothing more than middle of the road libertarians. LOL Yes, nothing screams 'libertarian' more than billions of quid of the public's monies being siphoned off and going to elite cronies via good old boy insider networks and nepotism. Fulham Broadway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, chippy said: No doubt there's been some genuinely extreme right Tories in years gone by, but even those on the right of today's party are still pretty much nothing more than middle of the road libertarians. Quite a lot of today's party are actually very socially liberal, with the most diverse cabnet in the history of this country! It's really just economic policies which seperate most of them from the average liberal or right wing Labour. There were - the forefathers of UKIP, Mosleyites-Monday club. Anyhow, the Tory ideas for the economy are mostly accepted by many Europeans (Merkel - Macron and then you slide downwards). But in the European parliament the conservative block expelled the Tory party, well before brexit, because of their intolerant nature. Edited June 12, 2021 by cosmicway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 19 minutes ago, cosmicway said: There were - the forefathers of UKIP, Mosleyites-Monday club. Anyhow, the Tory ideas for the economy are mostly accepted by many Europeans (Merkel - Macron and then you slide downwards). But in the European parliament the conservative block expelled the Tory party, well before brexit, because of their intolerant nature. Standing up for Britain's interests will come across as intolerance to some others.I Iwould very much like to know exactly which countries saw the Cons that way. And then I would look at the racial, religious and ethnic make up of their countries and go tell them to fcuk themselves. Another thought. The "intolerant Cons" have had two female PM's and it's over 40 years since the first one. Meanwhile, the "progressive" Lefties have still not had a female leader of their party.🤭 Also, I would bet very good money it will be the Tories who have the first non white PM of this country. Might well be Rishi Sunak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 26 minutes ago, chippy said: Standing up for Britain's interests will come across as intolerance to some others.I Iwould very much like to know exactly which countries saw the Cons that way. And then I would look at the racial, religious and ethnic make up of their countries and go tell them to fcuk themselves. Another thought. The "intolerant Cons" have had two female PM's and it's over 40 years since the first one. Meanwhile, the "progressive" Lefties have still not had a female leader of their party.🤭 Also, I would bet very good money it will be the Tories who have the first non white PM of this country. Might well be Rishi Sunak. It was n't because of the various "renegotiations". Rather the Tories walked out because of their archaic ways. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Hilarious how some just spout bollocks from the 10 'newspapers' owned by six tax dodging billionaires that do the tories dirty work, quid pro quo. ''Lefty, woke, marxism, '' -not an original thought amongst any of the duped forelock tuggers. Atomiswave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomiswave 6,118 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 5 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said: Hilarious how some just spout bollocks from the 10 'newspapers' owned by six tax dodging billionaires that do the tories dirty work, quid pro quo. ''Lefty, woke, marxism, '' -not an original thought amongst any of the duped forelock tuggers. Mate they all eat from the same hand, they own the narrative, media completely under their control, and we the sheeps buy it all hook line and sinker. Fulham Broadway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said: Hilarious how some just spout bollocks from the 10 'newspapers' owned by six tax dodging billionaires that do the tories dirty work, quid pro quo. ''Lefty, woke, marxism, '' -not an original thought amongst any of the duped forelock tuggers. So Tony Blair is a "duped forelock tugger" then? I stopped buying newspapers over a decade ago. Wouldnt wipe my arse on any of them, left or right leaning! I get my information directly from live, unedited footage of Parliament tv or video footage of people saying or doing something. And as I've said before, along with that, I take the time to look at government data and and stats from organizations like the FBI. And again, you lot on the left will never look at or discuss the data because you know it's shits all over the lies being spouted by the lying cnuts in the Labour Party . I gave a recent example of Tracy Babin and her race baiting filth about deaths in Police custody. Patel shot her down in flames with simple Home Office facts to which Babin had no comeback on. Another one (can find her name if need be) a week before stormed out of the commons after being given the stats on deported criminals. Ranting away, but yet again had no answer to the stats, so she shut her gob and ran out. Fortunately, these days, people don't have to rely on biased newspapers or TV stations. The truth is out there and it's easy to find it and people are finding it, despite the best attempts to cover it up by the BBC, ITV,, C4 and Sky. No amount of slurs by the left will change the minds of the massive number of working class people who've deserted your party. Your party is done for as a major force in this country and you know it. Nothing more than a dying cult of activists now.☹️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 The arrogance of someone just assuming that because they dont agree with forelock tugging racists that they are Labour. Laughable. 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 ''A British black person is twice as likely to die in police custody than any other ethnicity in the past 10 years.'' From that bastion of 'wokeness' the Daily Express June 2020. Atomiswave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,333 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views. Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others. The paper analysed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people. The study, by academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, used information from two UK studies from 1958 and 1970 , where several thousand children were assessed for intelligence at age 10 and 11, and then asked political questions aged 33. The study published in Psychological Science showed people with low intelligence gravitate towards right-wing views because they make them feel safe. Crucially, people's educational level is not what determines whether they are racist or not - it's innate intelligence, according to the academics. Social status also appears to play no part. The study, published in Psychological Science, claims that right-wing ideology forms a 'pathway' for people with low reasoning ability to become prejudiced against groups such as other races and gay people. A parallel study - The British Cohort Study involved 3,412 men and 3,658 women born in 1970. It's the first time the data from these studies has been used in this way. In adulthood, the children were asked whether they agreed with statements such as, 'I wouldn't mind working with people from other races,' and 'I wouldn't mind if a family of a different race moved next door.' They were also asked whether they agreed with statements about typically right-wing and socially conservative politics such as, 'Give law breakers stiffer sentences,' and 'Schools should teach children to obey authority.' The researchers also compared their results against a 1986 American study which included tests of cognitive ability and questions assessing prejudice against homosexuals. The authors claim that there is a strong correlation between low intelligence both as a child and an adult, and right-wing politics. The authors also claim that conservative politics is part of a complex relationship that leads people to become prejudices. 'Conservative ideology represents a critical pathway through which childhood intelligence predicts racism in adulthood,' says the paper. '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.' Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said: The arrogance of someone just assuming that because they dont agree with forelock tugging racists that they are Labour. Laughable. 😆 You dodged the question about Tony Blair saying Labour is being destroyed by the woke left. And now you've added racist to the forelock tuggers slur as well.😚 As I've said before, please do carry on with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 57 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said: ''A British black person is twice as likely to die in police custody than any other ethnicity in the past 10 years.'' From that bastion of 'wokeness' the Daily Express June 2020. And that's why I don't even look at newspapers. A couple of months in the house of commons the home secretary read out the actual Home Office figures on deaths in police custody from the last year. 16 people died, 15 of them white. Was Tracy Babin concerned about the 16 deaths (as she should have been) the majority 15 deaths or the one death? I think you know the answer And over the last 10 years, 10 black Brits have been killed by our police and 124 white Brits killed. If you want you can start talking about American crime stats, but I'll warn you that won't like what you see, especially if we take into account the pro rata stats with the figures. In fact, I'll go as far as saying you won't even believe the FBI data on crime rates and racial murders etc. I know I wouldnt have believed them, until I saw Black Conservatives asking viewers to go and take a look for themselves and see the lies that are being spun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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