How Much of an Authoritarian Are You?

[Shadow Wolf]

I never proposed violating such laws.

No, but thats the rough idea of my ideal society. You can go into just about any business. But its in a society that looks and functions differently so industrial models are not present and businesses are regulated to strictly prohibit much of the bad behaviors amd practices we see today.
Another good example is switching to clean and renewable energy. As things like coal and oil are limites and depleting, and are health hazards even for those who dont use them, workers will be retrained and job placement assistance made available, but industries like coal and oil would be left alone to quietly die in a dark corner. And lobbiest against industrial hemp would told tough titties, it's happening and being embracee.

 

[Heyo]

Everyone submits to authority to some degree, we all listen to authorities (be they parents, teachers, officials, police etc.) but some people take it further and submit to authority even when that authority is dishonest, corrupt, or otherwise pursueing its own self interests at the expense of everyone else's - that's Authoritarianism.

Psychologists found out that Authoritarianism is made up of three main criteria - submission to authority, high conventionalism, and aggression against subversive elements of society.

This test was conceived to measure these criteria.



Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale

You don't have to post your results here if you don't want to, I just found it a neat little device for introspection and self reflection in political matters.

"Your score for right-wing authoritarianism was 18.18%. Higher scores indicate more right-wing authoritarianism."

 

[Heyo]

Oh that's easy. We hate the Scottish, like all self-respecting people.

Don't hate them too much. They may love their sheep just a little bit too much but without them we'd be out of first class malt.

 

[Heyo]

I scored exceptionally high (18.18%) but I tried to be honest and not to seem most anti-authoritarian.
E.g. I strongly agree to "There are many radical, immoral people in our country today, who are trying to ruin it for their own godless purposes, whom the authorities should put out of action."
It's just that I think of different people than the questioner might have thought of. (The right-wing underground, racist or corrupt cops, greedy capitalists, Ursula von der Leyen)
There are more questions that I can agree upon by simply viewing the "bad" people as those who are bad in my view, authoritarian people for example.
Also, I think the questions are too US centric for a general audience and they focus too much on religion. Authoritarianism may be connected to (some) religions but it is a political/social question and religion shouldn't play that much a role.

 

[Tambourine]

I don't answer what I believe/feel/think are loaded questions.

Do you have evidence to support that people who publically espouse their conservative politics are being persecuted at university campuses throughout the US?

 

[Twilight Hue]

It'd be a different instrument. It's pretty apparent from the questions that they are slanted to measuring right-wing authoritarianism. To be honest, I'm not clear on what left-wing authoritarianism would look like. It's kind of a contradiction in terms, isn't it?

Well if compulsory policy is any indicator....

 

[OtherSheep]

Do you have evidence to support that people who publically espouse their conservative politics are being persecuted at university campuses throughout the US?

Please follow the thin blue line arrows back to where I posted the link, the first time.

(sigh) Within that link, which I've reposted here:

Measuring Left-Wing Authoritarianism in America

Are the proofs you asked for; three of them, all in that same link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nstrators-in-berkeley/?utm_term=.eb55ae616006

UC Berkeley security costs for Ben Shapiro’s visit estimated at $600k

Milo Yiannopoulos' 15 minutes in Berkeley cost university $800,000

"The almost laughable aspect of Antifa is that these radical individuals are self-righteously convinced they are fighting fascism when in reality they are the only fascists in the room."--pjmedia

 

[Tambourine]

Please follow the thin blue line arrows back to where I posted the link. And then check the link's source material.

Can you not state your argument in your own words? Also, there is no link in your post.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Everyone submits to authority to some degree, we all listen to authorities (be they parents, teachers, officials, police etc.) but some people take it further and submit to authority even when that authority is dishonest, corrupt, or otherwise pursueing its own self interests at the expense of everyone else's - that's Authoritarianism.

Psychologists found out that Authoritarianism is made up of three main criteria - submission to authority, high conventionalism, and aggression against subversive elements of society.

This test was conceived to measure these criteria.



Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale

You don't have to post your results here if you don't want to, I just found it a neat little device for introspection and self reflection in political matters.

Honestly, that test rather sucks because a neo-Nazi (or any person with radical views( would despise the "established authorities" but obviously be very authoritarian. So I wouldn't bother with it.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Everyone submits to authority to some degree, we all listen to authorities (be they parents, teachers, officials, police etc.) but some people take it further and submit to authority even when that authority is dishonest, corrupt, or otherwise pursueing its own self interests at the expense of everyone else's - that's Authoritarianism.

Psychologists found out that Authoritarianism is made up of three main criteria - submission to authority, high conventionalism, and aggression against subversive elements of society.

This test was conceived to measure these criteria.


Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale

You don't have to post your results here if you don't want to, I just found it a neat little device for introspection and self reflection in political matters.

I stopped taking the test after about a dozen questions, when it became obvious that the entire questionnaire was fishing only for right wing authoritarianism, rather than both right AND left wing authoritarianism.

I was also next to impossible to answer questions, because usually three things were listed as a group, and I never assented or disagreed with all three.

If I had to place myself on the scale, I would say that I'm moderately conventional. I am happy with things the way they are, mostly. This doesn't mean I don't see things that need changing. I've been to BLM protests, for example. That's hardly an authoritarian thing to do. But at the same time, I tend to trust those in authority in general.

Indeed I think that one of the alarming trends in society is this new distrust in authority, whether it be the media, the government, the CDC and science, or whatever. The growth of all these conspiracy theories whether it is the anti-vaxxers or truthers or birthers or Q Anon or any other paranoid view, is a major threat to our society.

I'm all for free thinking, protesting, etc. But there is simply a line where things become irrational, and society is crossing it.

 

[Friend of Mara]

I scored an actual 0%. Being a gay anarcosocialist non-Christian who likes drugs sex and social unrest might have some correlation though.