I suggest that the conservative use of insult has made conservatives less intelligent and more vicious.
Would that be the strong or weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
I contend that the less intelligent are drawn to conservative ideologies as a form of novelty-avoidance, and the vicious are drawn to right-wing ideologies because those grant them greater liberty to enact their viciousness.
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Date: 2010-03-19 11:09 pm (UTC)Would that be the strong or weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
I contend that the less intelligent are drawn to conservative ideologies as a form of novelty-avoidance, and the vicious are drawn to right-wing ideologies because those grant them greater liberty to enact their viciousness.