Self-declared capitalists score highest on multiple prejudice measures

Evidence

Self-declared capitalists consistently racked up such high scores on the Ethnocentrism, Attitudes toward Homosexuals, and Posse-Radical measures that in 19961 wrote, “The capitalists would have won the gold medal in all three tests if this had been the Authoritarian Hostility Olympics” (p. 213). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1057

Categorization

• CANDY: Delightful quip: ‘capitalists would have won the gold medal… if this had been the Authoritarian Hostility Olympics.’
• SHARE: Send to anyone interested in ideology and prejudice research — the ‘Authoritarian Hostility Olympics’ zinger plus the empirical finding that capitalism self-identification tracks prejudice.