Liberals are smarter...
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- acedeuce
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/0…
"The adoption of some evolutionarily novel ideas makes some sense in terms of moving the species forward," said George Washington University leadership professor James Bailey, who was not involved in the study. "It also makes perfect sense that more intelligent people -- people with, sort of, more intellectual firepower -- are likely to be the ones to do that."
Your thoughts?
- luckyorphan0
This belongs in the Politics thread.
- ...as fun as it is to read.luckyorphan
- this article isn't about politics, just the headlinewhatsup
- joeth0
- oh snapacedeuce
- lol "readitandweap.jpg"bigtrickagain
- Mississippi's IQ = Mild mental retardation. LOLutopian
- mormons=moronsacedeuce
- drgss0
"unconventional preferences appeal to people with higher intelligence"
sums everything up
- GeorgesII0
Can wait for cocky atheist vs fundamentalist christian shoutfest
* gets popcorn
- luckyorphan0
Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.
"It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere," Kanazawa said.
- It's conclusions like that that make intellectuals sound like a-holes.luckyorphan
- Regardless of how correct they might be.luckyorphan
- lol - the truth hurts those who can't handle itsequoia
- I don't know why that would be offensiveukit
- GeorgesII0
seriously fuck existentialism. they are as fucked up as extremist.
you take a line and plot on either opposite point religious fanatics and at the other side existentialist, and you got both side of nuttiest folks.
- iCanHasQBN0
you know, i hate it when a liberal says something intelligent, or tries to explain a concept to a conservative, and then the conservative always accuses the liberal of being an elitist or arrogant. they're so insecure. like if we aren't as dumb as a rock (like them), then we're "elitists" or something (implying that it's a bad thing).
i WANT these "elitists" running the world. they have much higher standards and expectations.
- ...just commenting on the comments on cnn.iCanHasQBN
- You serioulsy think dumb people rule the world ahhahaha comon, bush may appear stupid but he did his jobGeorgesII
- job in such a good way that you can't arguee that he's smarter than all usGeorgesII
- bush didnt rule anything. cheney and his cronies were running shit. W was nothing but a puppet.iCanHasQBN
- mikotondria30
I think the baiting of intellectualism from the right is very strongly related to the religious mistrust of science, something that has been in tension since the reformation, the enlightenment, luther, galileo, right through to today's attempts to force Intelligent Design into schools, and the rallying around against the new atheist movement.
- 762mm0
Organized religion has always been about keeping the people in order. Telling people how to live their lives through fear and scary fairy tale bed time stories written by a group of people with their own agendas in mind. When this fuses with politics, you have a state of zombie like sheeple. This can be exemplified in what you call "Middle America / the South".
- xcarlx0
"faith is making a virtue out of not thinking"
- ukit0
- GeorgesII0
Die America, die.
- Drgss
- ukit0
Here's the thing though, I bet those people with high IQs are not just Democrats/ liberals but urban dwellers who get exposed to a whole different world than someone living in a little town somewhere.
If you look at the IQ chart the states at the top tend to be more densely populated with big cities, while the states near the bottom like Idaho, South Dakota, and Montana are more or less vast expanses of countryland. Not a surprise that if you grow up in a farming town with 500 people your IQ might be slightly lower than someone who grows up in the middle of New York City. Of course small towns are also more religious and tend to vote Republican. Ironically if you go back 100 years the political affiliations were almost completely reversed and the small-town religious people voted almost completely for the Democrats while the city dwellers voted more for Republicans.
- you explained it, but it doesnt make it go awaydrgss
- yeah, but the association between liberal-democrat, and conservative-republi...xcarlx
- were not that clear before 1930's,
remember, Lincoln was a republican, but would be considered a liberal today.xcarlx - considered a liberal today.xcarlx
- Yeah actually the big shift happened when Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Actukit
- Teddy Roosevelt was also a republican, but was considered a progressive.xcarlx
- i would say the shift started with the new deal.xcarlx
- Not really http://www.100bestwe…ukit
- You gotta consider that people like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond were originally Democratsukit
- They switched parties cause they were so pissed about equal rights being given to blacksukit
- well the association between liberal democrat, and conservative republican began with the new deal.xcarlx
- it all has to do with lase-fare economics vs Keynesian economics.xcarlx
- it began there, didn't end there.xcarlx
- Republicans are stupid and evil motherfuckers who deserve to die painfully....vaxorcist
- the civil rights act sealed the deal.xcarlx
- previous0
republicans are either stupid or batshit crazy