Support for political correctness does not track left-right ideology but Wild-Card Authoritarianism.
Evidence
It would probably surprise the editors of Maclean’s that summed support for political correctness did ot correlate with either mock LWA (.08) or RWA (.07) scores. Some students, to be sure, supported political correctness; however, they were not leftists as a rule but Wild-Card Authoritarians. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3017
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
- Campus support for political correctness reflects authoritarian personality, not leftist ideology. (similarity 0.92)
- Campus political correctors advocating censorship are likely Wild-Card Authoritarians, not leftists. (similarity 0.85)
- Non-authoritarians and wild cards, not left or right authoritarians, drive RWA-LWA correlations (similarity 0.81)
- Right-wing authoritarians who also score high on left scales stay prejudiced (similarity 0.81)
- No coherent left-wing authoritarian ideology emerged from measured student responses (similarity 0.81)
- Authoritarianism does not correlate with academic grades or general intelligence (similarity 0.80)
- Even on the left-wing authoritarian scale, right-wing authoritarians dominate the high-scorers. (similarity 0.80)
- Genuine left-wing authoritarians may not exist as a measurable type. (similarity 0.80)
- Apparent left-wing authoritarians were actually high-RWA wild cards who drifted into radical movements (similarity 0.79)
- No genuine left-wing authoritarian was found despite a valid scale for measuring one (similarity 0.79)
- Authoritarianism and partisan affiliation correlate at one of the highest levels ever measured (similarity 0.79)
- RWA and LWA scores correlate positively across both student and parent samples (similarity 0.79)
- Right-wing and left-wing authoritarianism scores correlate positively, not negatively (similarity 0.79)
- Some authoritarians remain open to changing their beliefs (similarity 0.78)
- Canadian left-wing politicians show no more authoritarianism than conservatives (similarity 0.78)