Authoritarians are distinctly willing to join state persecution of outgroups

Evidence

You may be reassured to learn that most participants said they wanted nothing to do with such pogroms. They usually answered with —4 and — 3. But whether the targets were Communists or homosexuals or religious cults or radicals, authoritarian Manitoba students and parents were likely to respond with a less reassuring —2 or —1, and even to choose the “plus” (“Where do I sign up?”) side of the options. The overall RWA correlations by 1987 ranged from . to . (EOF, pp. 114-117, 181, 183) and have been replicated many times since. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 412

You may be reassured to learn that most participants said they wanted nothing to do with such pogroms. They usually answered with —4 and — 3. But whether the targets were Communists or homosexuals or religious cults or radicals, authoritarian Manitoba students and parents were likely to respond with a less reassuring —2 or —1, and even to choose the “plus” (“Where do I sign up?”) side of the options. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 413

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Altemeyer’s RWA framework from earlier chapters; connects to the posse scale item series he built in this chapter. — connects to: High authoritarians readily support persecution of groups including their own. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 917
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 412; Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 413