Study: DEI makes people more racist & authoritarian (11-26-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] The National Review article that I am reading by Abigail Anthony headlined, DEI training material increases perception of non-existent prejudice and agreement with Hitler rhetoric. Study finds.

[00:00:46] So, there was a study that was conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute, or the NCRI, and Rutgers University Social Perception Lab. And they released the study yesterday. And the study is called Instructing Animosity, How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias.

[00:01:13] Okay? So, this is a kind of bias one has. Hostile Attribution. So, what does that mean? It means that you are ascribing a feeling or a motivation to somebody else. That you have no information to actually know that about the person. You're just ascribing that motive to them.

[00:01:36] And this study found that when the subjects that were participating in the study, when they were exposed to DEI writings by Ibramex Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, right?

[00:01:52] All of these celebrated authors in the, quote, elite circles of our society, a.k.a. left-wing and media.

[00:02:02] But I repeat myself, right?

[00:02:04] When people are exposed to their writings, they pick up this hostile attribution bias, or the HAB, or the HAB, as I like to call it.

[00:02:17] The researchers concluded, because they did three different experiments. One was on race. One was on religion. And one was on caste. C-A-S-T-E, right?

[00:02:33] It's like in India, they have the caste system with the different levels of society. And when you're born into one of the castes, you can never get out of it, right?

[00:02:44] Which, you don't really hear a lot of leftists complaining about the Indian lack of economic and social mobility for some reason. But I digress. That's a different topic.

[00:02:55] But what they found, what the study found, the researchers found, was that in all three of their tests, that the people who got the DEI trainings, or essays, I should say, they got these essays, they read these essays, their animosity increased.

[00:03:13] And they began ascribing these motives to people that literally did not exist.

[00:03:21] They just, because the study would come up with, like the first one was about sort of a race-neutral college application scenario.

[00:03:33] And you get two names, and, you know, one name, quote, sounds white, one name, quote, sounds black.

[00:03:41] And then they say, okay, the black student did not get accepted, but the white student did.

[00:03:46] But they don't say white and black. They just say, these are the names.

[00:03:49] And the people who have read the DEI garbage, they immediately say that, oh, it's because of systemic racism.

[00:03:58] The admissions officer obviously penalized that person because of their race.

[00:04:05] Even though there was no admission, there were no applicants, there's no application, there's no admission officer, there's no college, it's all just made up.

[00:04:15] So there was no motive. It was just to test what the people thought was the reason.

[00:04:20] And they found that when the people read the DEI material, they ascribed motive.

[00:04:25] Same thing happened with a fake scenario of a court trial.

[00:04:33] And when a guy with a Muslim-sounding name gets convicted and a guy with the name George Green gets acquitted, they say it's due to Islamophobia.

[00:04:46] Then the third group on the casts.

[00:04:48] Compared to the group that read the neutral academic essay, the participants who were exposed to the DEI materials had a significantly higher perception of microaggressions,

[00:05:02] as well as perceived harm and assumptions of bias.

[00:05:06] Also, those who read the DEI materials showed a higher willingness to punish the admissions officer and they assessed Hindus as more racist.

[00:05:21] They also, because they would, so in the Indian caste system, the Brahmins are the top.

[00:05:27] And so what the researchers did was they took statements from Adolf Hitler and they swapped out the word Jew with the word Brahmin.

[00:05:40] And then they asked the people who went through this study to rate the accuracy of various Hitler quotes.

[00:05:52] The Brahmin was only and always a parasite in the body of other peoples.

[00:06:00] The Brahmins are a people under whose parasitism the whole of honest humanity is suffering.

[00:06:08] The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Brahmin.

[00:06:15] Innumerable sicknesses have their origin in one virus, the Brahmin.

[00:06:19] We will all get well when we eliminate the Brahmin.

[00:06:24] Those were all Hitler quotes, except he was saying it about Jews.

[00:06:27] And when people got these quotes with the word Brahmin swapped in,

[00:06:33] the ones that had read the DEI content had more than a 35% increase in agreeing with the parasite statement,

[00:06:44] 27% increase in agreeing with the devil personified statement,

[00:06:48] a 33% increase in the virus statement.

[00:06:54] This stuff is creating hatred.

[00:06:58] It is literally doing the opposite of what the promoters of this poison sell it to us as.

[00:07:07] The researchers concluded from all three of these experiments that DEI materials can, quote,

[00:07:15] engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing,

[00:07:24] and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment.

[00:07:33] This is why, hang on a second, this is why you've heard me talk a little bit about the migration of these leftists

[00:07:41] from Twitter over to this new platform that has been set up by the original founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.

[00:07:49] He's now created this other platform called Blue Sky.

[00:07:53] And it's, you know, no red need apply, right?

[00:07:56] Republicans stay out.

[00:07:57] They have algorithms that if you go on there and you literally type,

[00:08:01] there are only two genders, you will get banned immediately.

[00:08:05] Like within 30 seconds, boom, your account's locked.

[00:08:08] They have this thing on censorship lockdown, which is what Twitter was going through before Elon Musk bought it.

[00:08:19] And a study now came out that showed that Twitter now under the Musk leadership,

[00:08:27] and when they started ripping down these censorship structures and letting people engage with one another,

[00:08:36] what they have found is that of all social media platforms, Twitter is the most balanced.

[00:08:46] And over on CNN, when Scott Jennings, the Republican, said that,

[00:08:52] he got shouted down by the censorious left.

[00:08:57] These people that were on the panel with him.

[00:09:02] I heard what you're saying about X.

[00:09:03] I saw a survey this week.

[00:09:05] It's now the most ideologically balanced user platform.

[00:09:09] Scott, stop, stop.

[00:09:11] It's too early.

[00:09:11] I just sat down.

[00:09:12] I've only been here for two minutes.

[00:09:13] You cannot continue to say that.

[00:09:15] You cannot say that.

[00:09:16] Who is the source?

[00:09:17] Who is the source of that?

[00:09:18] What I find, we've reported it on this network.

[00:09:23] Who's your source?

[00:09:25] You.

[00:09:26] You guys, CNN, this guy is on CNN saying that the survey showed that X is the most balanced,

[00:09:36] and they're like, you can't say that.

[00:09:39] That's what they first said.

[00:09:41] One of the panelists said, you can't say that.

[00:09:42] You can't say, well, yes, he can.

[00:09:44] Why can't he say that?

[00:09:46] It's true.

[00:09:47] Oh, what's your source for that?

[00:09:50] This very network that I'm on right now, we are reporting it.

[00:09:53] In fact, here is how it was reported.

[00:09:56] Look at this.

[00:09:56] The party ID among those who regularly use X slash Twitter for news.

[00:10:01] Back in 2022, 65% of those who regularly use Twitter slash X for news were Democrats.

[00:10:07] Just 31% were Republicans.

[00:10:09] All right.

[00:10:10] So 65% of Democrats said they regularly use Twitter for news two years ago.

[00:10:19] It was a two to one margin two years ago.

[00:10:21] Democrat to Republican.

[00:10:24] Now?

[00:10:25] Look at where we are today.

[00:10:27] Just a completely different picture.

[00:10:29] Now it's basically split between Democrats at 48%, Republicans at 47%.

[00:10:34] And what I should note, Mr. Berman, is this now, this new overall makeup matches the overall electorate far better.

[00:10:42] 48 to 47.

[00:10:44] It's a tie, basically.

[00:10:47] Between Democrats and Republicans that get their news from Twitter.

[00:10:50] It's balanced.

[00:10:53] That's what free speech is.

[00:10:55] That's a better environment for free speech.

[00:10:59] Versus censoring people of one particular political ideology or view.

[00:11:06] Right?

[00:11:07] Very simple.

[00:11:10] But when you realize that the left has been ruminating in this DEI garbage for now, what, four years?

[00:11:20] Probably longer for a lot of them?

[00:11:22] Four or five years?

[00:11:24] Right?

[00:11:25] They are ascribing motive to everybody else.

[00:11:27] And what's the other part of it is they support punitive behaviors, even if there's no evidence of a transgression that even deserves punishment.

[00:11:38] Doesn't matter.

[00:11:38] They're authoritarian.

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[00:12:44] Two parts to this story.

[00:12:46] One is the study itself.

[00:12:49] The study itself that found diversity, equity, and inclusion materials have a wide range of negative consequences, including psychological harm, increased hostility, and authoritarianism.

[00:13:04] Okay?

[00:13:04] That's the first part of this story.

[00:13:07] The second part of the story is the way the media handled the release of this new study.

[00:13:14] Which, by the way, the NCRI is not exactly some right-wing organization.

[00:13:24] They've done other research studies before that have gotten widespread coverage.

[00:13:32] In fact, this study was set to be covered by both Bloomberg News and the New York Times.

[00:13:39] However, both of the publications spiked their articles just before publication.

[00:13:46] That's according to National Review that has seen the communications between those media outlets and the NCRI.

[00:13:57] Which is also, the study was done also with Rutgers University Social Perception Lab.

[00:14:03] The NCRI researcher told National Review, quote,

[00:14:10] Unfortunately, both publications jumped on the story enthusiastically only for it to be inexplicably pulled at the highest editorial levels.

[00:14:21] This has never happened to the NCRI in its five-year history.

[00:14:28] Later on in this piece at National Review, an editor at Bloomberg News named Nabila Ahmed,

[00:14:39] who is the team leader for global equality at Bloomberg,

[00:14:48] Nabila informed the NCRI on November 15th that Bloomberg would not go forward with the article.

[00:14:54] The NCRI asked for some sort of explanation, scientific explanation, a journalistic explanation,

[00:15:03] and Ahmed directed the researchers to another woman named Anna Kitanaka,

[00:15:10] the executive editor of Bloomberg Equality.

[00:15:16] Kitanaka told the NCRI that what stories get published and when is entirely an editorial decision.

[00:15:25] And she did not provide any details on why the publication axed the article.

[00:15:32] The next one is a reporter for the New York Times told the NCRI that he would cover the new study

[00:15:40] and that the article was written and it was ready to go.

[00:15:44] However, he later came back and told an NCRI researcher that the New York Times was going to hold off on covering the study on DEI due to, quote,

[00:15:55] some concerns and suggested that the publication would revisit the study if it underwent the academic peer review process.

[00:16:06] Well, that's convenient.

[00:16:08] Right?

[00:16:09] That's convenient.

[00:16:09] Because I'm sure they wait for peer review on every single study that they publish, right?

[00:16:14] No, of course they don't.

[00:16:16] No.

[00:16:17] No.

[00:16:17] The problem here is the content.

[00:16:19] Because the NCRI pointed out, this researcher who spoke to the National Review,

[00:16:25] pointed out that the journalist involved with the New York Times had previously covered far more sensitive findings out of the NCRI,

[00:16:35] such as their study on QAnon and their study on January 6th.

[00:16:46] And they didn't make any requests for peer review material or anything.

[00:16:53] They just looked at the study.

[00:16:56] They liked the top line results.

[00:16:58] And so they ran with it.

[00:17:00] The New York Times wrote to the National Review denying that the story was ready for publication.

[00:17:06] The New York Times reporter suggested that the research wasn't strong enough.

[00:17:11] Quote,

[00:17:11] I told my editor I thought if we were going to write a story casting serious doubts on the efficacy of the work of two of the country's most prominent DEI scholars,

[00:17:20] the case against them has to be as strong as possible.

[00:17:25] Why?

[00:17:27] Why?

[00:17:29] Why do these two people need protection?

[00:17:32] Right?

[00:17:33] You're not doing the study.

[00:17:35] You're just reporting on the study.

[00:17:38] And you don't wait for peer review on any other studies, particularly when they go after the J6 people or the QAnon people.

[00:17:46] You had no problem with the NCRI's methodology when they did those studies.

[00:17:51] But for some reason, you have what?

[00:17:54] Lower expectations or something?

[00:17:56] Or you feel like these people need to be protected?

[00:17:59] Like there's just some sort of a microaggression?

[00:18:01] How many DEI trainings have you gone through, New York Times reporter?

[00:18:05] Hmm?

[00:18:06] Might that explain your behavior?

[00:18:09] All right.

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[00:18:40] Yes.

[00:18:40] In a related story at redstate dot com.

[00:18:45] Peace by Becky Noble headline.

[00:18:48] Dishonest media strikes again as outlets take concealed cash from teachers unions for positive coverage.

[00:18:55] No.

[00:18:56] Yes.

[00:18:56] According to recent financial disclosures from the American Federation of Teachers or the AFT and the National Education Association, the NEA.

[00:19:08] Right.

[00:19:09] According to these two unions, financial disclosures.

[00:19:13] Three left wing publications.

[00:19:17] Took in almost a million dollars from these two unions.

[00:19:22] Over the last two years.

[00:19:25] Those publications would be the New Republic.

[00:19:29] American Prospect.

[00:19:32] And Courier Newsroom.

[00:19:36] Courier Newsroom.

[00:19:40] Courier Newsroom.

[00:19:42] That one sounds familiar.

[00:19:45] It's because it it is.

[00:19:48] They have collectively raked in nine hundred five thousand dollars since twenty twenty two.

[00:19:54] The problem here is not that they're, you know, suckling at the teachers unions.

[00:20:02] Wasm.

[00:20:03] But the problem is that after they got the cash from the unions, they never disclosed those payments whilst publishing positive articles about the unions.

[00:20:16] Courier Newsroom runs 11 outlets or outlets in 11 states, I should say.

[00:20:23] OK, so they have all these different little websites in 11 states, including states that are swing states.

[00:20:31] Courier Newsroom got half a million dollars from the NEA and then another thirty five thousand from the AFT.

[00:20:40] For just a sampling of Courier's work.

[00:20:43] Their North Carolina outlet.

[00:20:45] Cardinal and Pine.

[00:20:47] Have you heard of these?

[00:20:48] You listen to this show.

[00:20:49] You should have because I've referenced them before.

[00:20:54] Cardinal and Pine.

[00:20:54] Back in March, they featured a video with NEA president Rebecca Pringle.

[00:21:01] No relation to the potato chip.

[00:21:03] Explaining why it is important to teach America's schoolchildren that the United States is systemically racist.

[00:21:12] What was missing?

[00:21:14] Yes, you guessed it.

[00:21:16] No disclosure of the fact that they had been given about five hundred fifty thousand dollars in the span of two years.

[00:21:24] So if I go to you to do the North Carolina Cardinal and Pine website here, you to do to do to do.

[00:21:34] And I go to where is your local people in life and more about us.

[00:21:41] Mm hmm.

[00:21:42] Mm hmm.

[00:21:42] Mm hmm.

[00:21:43] Uh, that that.

[00:21:44] OK.

[00:21:45] Yes, I'm giving them clicks, but I don't care.

[00:21:48] Do to do.

[00:21:48] Here we go.

[00:21:50] Billy Ball.

[00:21:52] Billy Ball was a former reporter.

[00:21:54] Um, I want to say, let's see, can I.

[00:21:56] Do they have a link here to him?

[00:21:57] Let's see.

[00:21:58] Open you up, Billy Ball.

[00:21:59] Let's open up the ball.

[00:22:01] Um.

[00:22:03] Senior community editor.

[00:22:05] He has covered.

[00:22:06] Oh, so they don't tell.

[00:22:07] OK, but he was a he's a longtime.

[00:22:10] Journalist.

[00:22:11] In North Carolina.

[00:22:14] For various legacy media outlets.

[00:22:18] Newspapers.

[00:22:19] Um, let's see here.

[00:22:21] Let me go back.

[00:22:22] Is the other one.

[00:22:23] This name should.

[00:22:27] Oh, where did he go?

[00:22:29] Where did he go?

[00:22:30] Oh, well, the other guy that is mentioned here as a contributor to the Cardinal and Pine is the guy who runs Queen City Nerve.

[00:22:38] Local guy.

[00:22:39] Formerly creative loafing guy.

[00:22:41] Started Queen City Nerve after creative loafing imploded as socialist enterprises tend to do.

[00:22:46] And, um, and so now he's running that operation and he's a he's affiliated with these guys to Cardinal and Pine.

[00:22:54] They've got these kinds of sites in 11 states and they just take left wing money and they do, quote, news stories.

[00:23:04] And they don't tell people that they're not actually news organizations.

[00:23:09] They're left wing propagandists.

[00:23:11] The New Republic published a story with a ratcheted up argument by AFT union president Randy Weingarten about how conservatives wanted to ban sexually explicit books from public school libraries as part of a larger plot to destroy public education.

[00:23:31] They also did not mention a financial disclosure.

[00:23:38] Oh, and Democrats are also given positive coverage at the New Republic.

[00:23:43] Um, they ran a glowing story, several actually on Tim Walls.

[00:23:51] Right.

[00:23:51] He's, uh, he's, uh, he's a, he's a big guy in the labor movement.

[00:23:57] Um, the other endorsements that he was racking up that should have scared Trump.

[00:24:01] Because he was getting all these endorsements from labor leaders.

[00:24:04] Tim Walls was again, no mention of financial disclosures, the American prospect.

[00:24:09] They got about a hundred thousand dollars and they ran positive coverage of Randy Weingarten's handling of tensions stemming from the Israel Hamas war.

[00:24:20] Not really sure why the teachers union, uh, uh, leader would be somebody that we need to talk to about Israel and Hamas, but, uh, whatever, you know, she got some positive coverage.

[00:24:33] And again, no disclosure that American prospect was getting money from the union that they then turned around and wrote a glowing piece about its leader.

[00:24:45] It is the never ending story of taking the union dues from hardworking, underpaid teachers and giving them to Democrat candidates and causes without those workers consent.

[00:25:00] Combined with an ongoing quest for power that puts the nation's school children in the middle.

[00:25:06] Right.

[00:25:07] They want to build left wing infrastructure, not work for children's education.

[00:25:16] That's the problem with the teachers unions.

[00:25:18] At least in North Carolina, it's not compulsory.

[00:25:21] At least here, you're not forced to join a teacher's union and have your paycheck deducted to fund this kind of leftism.

[00:25:32] At least there's that.

[00:25:34] But that's not the case in many other states, in these left wing states.

[00:25:40] It is essentially a money laundering operation.

[00:25:43] That is essentially what is going on.

[00:25:45] You have government employees that have money drafted out of their paycheck.

[00:25:51] That money comes from taxpayers.

[00:25:53] That money gets drafted out of the paycheck and sent to the union.

[00:25:58] The union then uses that money to propagandize and influence our political discourse in order to secure them more power.

[00:26:10] How?

[00:26:11] Via the government that is also funded by us, the taxpayers.

[00:26:16] They use our money to try to get more of our money.

[00:26:24] Democrats need to really abandon this use of government force in fighting the culture war.

[00:26:31] They really do.

[00:26:33] They're not going to, but they need to.

[00:26:36] Quinn Hillier over at the Washington Examiner.

[00:26:39] He said, if Democrats want to understand why not even dedicated never Trumpers could vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and why so-called double haters.

[00:26:48] Remember them?

[00:26:48] Those people who strongly disliked both Trump and Harris or both Trump and Biden, I should say.

[00:26:54] Like, if you're trying to understand why they broke by such wide margins in Trump's favor, Democrats need to remember that people historically have resented edicts and mandates.

[00:27:07] Okay?

[00:27:08] And that's what y'all have been doing.

[00:27:11] Please refer back to my topic on the DEI study.

[00:27:16] They found people who are exposed to that DEI claptrap end up becoming more authoritarian.

[00:27:22] You guys are poisoning your brains with this stuff and your relationships.

[00:27:27] So just kind of keep that in mind when you're going to Thanksgiving, maybe.

[00:27:31] Maybe you're the problem.

[00:27:32] Maybe you're the baddie.

[00:27:34] You know?

[00:27:35] Going over this piece at the Washington Examiner.

[00:27:37] I'll return to it in a moment.

[00:27:39] Joanne has called in and wants to make a comment about teachers' unions.

[00:27:44] Hello, Joanne.

[00:27:45] Welcome.

[00:27:46] Hi.

[00:27:47] I was a representative for the union here when I was teaching in the public schools.

[00:27:52] You got to opt out of giving any money to any political candidates if you wanted to.

[00:27:57] And they did have benefits that really helped in case you had problems where you were teaching.

[00:28:04] I do not like the fact that they used the system in order to publicize their particular candidates because I wasn't on that team and I still am not.

[00:28:17] But they do have benefits.

[00:28:19] It's just that I'm glad that they're not totally in control here.

[00:28:24] Regarding the bad schooling, I was teaching in two schools in the last two years and I'm ancient right now.

[00:28:30] The first one I taught in Union County at one of their worst middle schools and they were having a horrid time.

[00:28:38] The basic problem was discipline.

[00:28:40] The second school I taught in elementary, every single child was on grade level for reading and math.

[00:28:47] It was the curriculum and the way they taught it.

[00:28:51] Right.

[00:28:52] So I said that teachers' unions in North Carolina do not force all of their members to contribute or even to join the unions.

[00:29:02] Okay, I only heard the join part.

[00:29:05] I just wanted to make it clear that you do not have to give to the party you don't like.

[00:29:09] Right.

[00:29:10] Well, in this case, the NEA and the AFT gave money to quote-unquote news organizations, not candidates.

[00:29:17] So it seems like they found a way around it.

[00:29:23] They probably did.

[00:29:24] I mean, it's been several years since I taught.

[00:29:26] Yeah.

[00:29:26] Like two.

[00:29:28] And I was not a member of the NEA the last time I taught.

[00:29:31] I came back from retirement.

[00:29:33] So they were bored silly.

[00:29:35] Well, that would be the NCAE, right?

[00:29:39] Right.

[00:29:40] Yeah.

[00:29:40] Right.

[00:29:40] Which they claim they're not a union.

[00:29:46] Well, they aren't here.

[00:29:47] They can't.

[00:29:47] They are a union.

[00:29:48] No, you are correct.

[00:29:50] They are a union.

[00:29:50] They're part of the NEA.

[00:29:52] But they've lied for years saying that they're not.

[00:29:56] And this is my beef with the NCAE.

[00:29:59] I mean, the thing in North Carolina is there's no collective bargaining rights.

[00:30:02] And so they don't get to collectively bargain for the contracts.

[00:30:06] So, like, that's the, that's what they claim makes them not a union.

[00:30:10] But they are.

[00:30:11] They claim, oh, we're just an association because we don't have collective bargaining.

[00:30:14] But they are part of the NEA.

[00:30:17] Yeah, I believe that.

[00:30:18] Just when I was in there, they could not use money for politics.

[00:30:21] And they didn't.

[00:30:22] Obviously, this last election cycle has been insane with the amount of propaganda and lying.

[00:30:33] It's just, I've never seen it this bad in my entire life.

[00:30:36] And I'm old.

[00:30:37] Well, maybe we're just more aware of it now.

[00:30:40] I don't think there was ever a golden age where this stuff didn't happen.

[00:30:45] I think that now it's just easier to detect because there are so many people with publishing platforms.

[00:30:51] You know, there's so much more avenues for the information to get out.

[00:30:55] Joanne, I appreciate the call.

[00:30:57] Thank you.

[00:30:58] So, this Washington Examiner article by, or editorial by Quinn Hillier says,

[00:31:06] if the Democratic Party wants to recover, they need to abandon their outlandish cultural positions.

[00:31:12] But if not that, then at least abandon compulsion and relearn persuasion instead.

[00:31:21] So, in other words, they're doomed.

[00:31:23] It is, it is not in dispute.

[00:31:26] He says that far-left cultural positions are unpopular.

[00:31:30] Against the left, the vast majority of people think that allowing biological men into women's sports

[00:31:37] and especially into private spaces like changing rooms is wrong.

[00:31:40] The vast majority strongly disapprove of using tax dollars to pay for sex changes for prisoners and illegal immigrants.

[00:31:47] The vast majority disapprove of defund the police efforts, ending cash bail.

[00:31:52] People overwhelmingly believe schools should not hide information from parents about their kids wanting to change gender identities,

[00:32:00] much less enable their kids to start doing so.

[00:32:04] Right?

[00:32:05] If you saw the books that are on the shelves, most parents would agree with the, quote,

[00:32:09] activists about curating them so kids don't have access to them.

[00:32:17] One of the wisest left-leaning academics in the country, Rui Teixeira, published an essay the other day

[00:32:24] that documented the damage that all of these issue positions have done to the Democrats' popularity.

[00:32:29] And it's one thing, right, it's one thing to hold these views.

[00:32:34] Right?

[00:32:35] For the first time in at least 80 years, voters associate Democrats more with sociocultural issues than with class and economic solidarity.

[00:32:44] So it's one thing to hold these culture war views.

[00:32:47] It's another thing to try to compel people to participate and to agree.

[00:32:53] And that's where they've gone off the rails.

[00:32:57] And if you link it back to the study out of Rutgers, it kind of makes sense.

[00:33:03] They end up with this predisposition through the DEI stuff, this predisposition to use authoritarian mechanisms

[00:33:12] to compel people because they are ascribing malintent to their adversaries.

[00:33:18] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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