Tolerant people are happier than prejudiced people despite social penalties.

Evidence

Although there is reason to believe that the prejudiced are the better rewarded in our society as far as external values are concerned (it is when they take shortcuts to these rewards that they land in prison), we need not suppose that the tolerant have to wait and receive their rewards in heaven, as it were. Actually there is good reason to believe that the tolerant receive more gratification of basic needs. They are likely to pay for this satisfaction in conscious guilt feelings, since they frequently have to go against prevailing social standards, but the evidence is that they are, basically, happier than the prejudiced. Thus, we need not suppose that appeal to emotion belongs to those who strive in the direction of fascism, while democratic propaganda must limit itself to reason and restraint. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1818

Actually there is good reason to believe that the tolerant receive more gratification of basic needs. They are likely to pay for this satisfaction in conscious guilt feelings, since they frequently have to go against prevailing social standards, but the evidence is that they are, basically, happier than the prejudiced. Thus, we need not suppose that appeal to emotion belongs to those who strive in the direction of fascism, while democratic propaganda must limit itself to reason and restraint. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1818

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Stands the crude cost-benefit of bigotry on its head: prejudice may win external rewards but forfeits intrinsic gratification; eros, not fear, grounds democracy.
• XREF: Recalls the ch56 claim that conservatism rationalizes destructive impulses and that victims develop distorting stereotypes. — connects to: Prejudiced people report more consistently favorable self-images than unprejudiced people — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 529
• SEED: Angle: the Frankfurt School’s claim that eros belongs to democracy while fear belongs to fascism — a provocative inversion of the common progressive assumption that reason must defeat emotion.
• CANDY: ‘If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy’ is a quotable aphorism-like line easily shared.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1818

Broader Connections

• Prejudiced people report more consistently favorable self-images than unprejudiced people #contradicts (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 529