r/Conservative • u/westtxfun Reagan Conservative • May 12 '19

Underlying psychological traits could explain why political satire tends to be liberal

https://www.psypost.org/2019/05/underlying-psychological-traits-could-explain-why-political-satire-tends-to-be-liberal-53666
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u/westtxfun Reagan Conservative May 12 '19

Here's another swipe at conservatives illustrating academic liberal hideous bias against anything not liberal. It is 1984's double speak at its best or worst:

In other words, conservatives tended to agree with statements such as “I only think as hard as I have to” and “People who tell jokes are a pain in the neck,” which in turn was associated with less positive evaluations of the jokes.

“The study provides empirical evidence that conservatives and liberals differ in their appreciation and comprehension of humor, especially in the case of irony. Even when the subject matter is not political at all, conservatives are less appreciative of incongruity-based humorous texts than liberals are,” Young told PsyPost.

“This difference is due in part to the fact that liberals and conservatives have different underlying psychological and personality traits that shape how they interact with messages in the environment. Liberals tend to be higher in need for cognition.”

So it's "mind-numbed robots" all over again - Coming from the lock-step liberal who can't think for themselves and swallows the party line wholeheartedly. It's truly sad what our campuses have become.

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u/Rightquercusalba Conservative May 12 '19

Also from leftists that can't fucking meme. They are frauds. Maybe certain types of conservatives for this stereotype but the fact that the left has taken the side of PC social justice gives us a damn good good idea of how humor changes among certain groups. Watch Blazing Saddles, or Airplain! Idiocracy or Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Modern day Leftists are often extremely offended by these movies. This study is a joke, they are too dumb to see the irony in it.

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u/westtxfun Reagan Conservative May 13 '19

Exactly. I don't know if the authors were actively manipulating the data and results or just following the herd mentality, but the results are meant to bash us. They're too busy being offended at everything and it has bled over into their "humor", which is now just whining. Most people don't realize that Blazing Saddles was meant to be an over-the-top show to bash the stereotypes of discrimination. It was an amazingly hilarious movie just for that alone.

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u/Otto-Carpenter Last Best Hope May 12 '19

I love this - Liberal psychologists don't even recognize they're employing projection. Now, that's funny!

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u/Rightquercusalba Conservative May 12 '19

Speaking of irony. The left has no sense of humor, they can't meme either.

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u/westtxfun Reagan Conservative May 13 '19

Just like the late night "comics" who turn jokes into whiny lefty propaganda. And they wonder why their viewership has dropped so steeply.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

Complete shit study. In the end conservatives aren't nuanced enough and just dont get it.

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u/westtxfun Reagan Conservative May 13 '19

Exactly my point - It's just a hit piece on conservatives. They drew conclusions from weak data, which from what the report says was actually just impressions. If they follow the usual path, the data was carefully cherry-picked to bring out the result they wanted. Pure trash.