High RWAs can hold contradictory views about deservingness and discrimination

Evidence

When I picked through the psychometric rubble, I found that the twelve items held together quite nicely among the Low RWAs, who typically said, (1) people do not always get what they deserve, and (2) some people are treated very unfairly. The problems arose among the Highs, who typically said, (1) people do get what they deserve in life, and (2) some people are treated very unfairly. To be specific, High RWAs tended to agree with such items as “If poor people really wanted to, they could ‘pull themselves up by their bootstraps’ ” and “A person can have lots of drive and determination, but still not get very far in life because of discrimination against their sex or race.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1228

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims on authoritarianism, prejudice, and just-world beliefs about poverty.
• QUESTION: Does this self-contradiction co-occur with the punitive/antipoor attitudes documented in the vault’s moral-economy claims?