Support for censorship tracks authoritarianism, not political ideology

Evidence

Recent research, for example, has shown that threats can lead to increases in group identification (Moskalenko, McCauley, & Rozin, 2006), authoritarianism (Duckitt & Fisher, 2003), social dominance orientation (Morrison & Ybarra, 2006), and power distance (Olivas-Lujan, Harzing, & McCoy, 2004). Thus, threats to an ingroup can influence attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies that are typically thought to remain invariant over time and across situations. — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 25 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In Israel, Rubinstein (1996) discovered High RWA Jewish students tended to identify with the right-wing and religious parties. In turn, Palestinian Highs also tended to support “extreme right-wing parties—most of them religiously fundamentalist.” The eta-squared values were 17% and 34%, respectively, analogous to correlations of . and .58. (The relationships are probably high in Israel because religion mixes strongly with politics there, as it increasingly does in the United States.) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 502 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Support for political correctness does not track left-right ideology but Wild-Card Authoritarianism.; Hostile censorship advocates on campus are likely wild-card authoritarians; Authoritarianism can manifest on the political left as well as right — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 446 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Support for political correctness does not track left-right ideology but Wild-Card Authoritarianism. #expands (0.95)
• Threat shifts supposedly stable ideological dispositions like authoritarianism #complicates (0.80) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 25
• Authoritarianism links to right-wing politics across hostile national groups #complicates (0.78) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 502