Prejudiced people rank freedom far above equality in values

Evidence

Rokeach designed the value-ranking procedure to measure the relative standing of Equality and Freedom, arguably the two most basic values of democracy. He discovered that people generally ranked Freedom higher, and that prejudiced persons ranked it much higher than Equality. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3594

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Rokeach’s value-ranking operationalization of the freedom-equality gap as a prejudice index.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3594