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The Death of Ideology
The best predictor of left wing authoritarianism was low verbal intelligence. People want to be the answers, he says. The critical social justice movement is like a fundamentalist religion and they are not people who can be reasoned with. They don't want to start thinking. Thinking is the death of ideology. I've never been surprised by them. But every now and then I take the bait and I say, okay, what is it you think I've said? What is upset? What is the perspective that I have that you disagree with and why? And they just come back screaming Nazi or whatever. It's because if you're not coming from your own ideasYou're probably wrong about an awful lot