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01-25-2012, 07:36 AM   #1
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Liberal Bias - Disgust

Saw this interesting article... and caught a glimpse of that infamous liberal bias and possibly why conservatives feel put upon by both science and media...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/disgusts-evolutionary-role-is-irre...=1

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“People who are sensitive to one type of disgust are not necessarily sensitive to another,” he said. For example, he said, earlier claims that political conservatives (self-identified) were more sensitive than liberals to disgust were overly general. Research that he and his colleagues did suggested that conservatives were more disgusted by sexual topics, but were similar to liberals in the domains of disease avoidance and moral judgment.
On second reading, that's not exactly biased sounding? Self-identified conservatives are more sensitive to disgust about sexual topics than liberals.

However, and here I'm coming clean with my own bias, I read into that... The liberal in me said 'it figures!' and that this is aberrant of the conservatives. Of course a conservative might see this and feel subtly put down, or, a conservative would read this as liberals being deficient about sexual disgust and therefore prone to condone promiscuity

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On the topic of disgust, here's an amusing book review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/thats-disgusting-unraveling-t...c=me

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Did you hear the one about the Texan at his first Passover Seder? He was mightily impressed with the soup. “These matzo balls sure are delicious, ma’am,” he told his hostess. “What other parts of the matzo do y’all cook with?”

This old joke came to mind as I read “That’s Disgusting,” a lively look at all things revolting by Rachel Herz, a psychologist at Brown. I thought of it as Herz described an evening with friends at a pretentious restaurant, where she ordered the appetizer special, duck oysters. It turned out “oysters” was code for “testicles” — how come her dinner companions hadn’t warned her? — and once she knew that, she lost her appetite for the small bulb-shaped delicacies. It occurred to me that I might never look at matzo ball soup — or oysters — the same way again.

Most of the grossest food described here isn’t disguised body parts, though, but stuff that’s fermented. “Controlled rot tastes good,” Herz writes, introducing food like hakarl, the desiccated shark meat eaten in Iceland, or natto, a slimy soybean dish from Japan. Tastes good? *Really? It’s hard to believe that about casu marzu (Sardinia’s “maggot cheese”), which is covered in writhing, wormlike insect larvae. Eating a hunk of fermented sheep’s milk coated in live maggots tastes good? Yuck.

Or how about chicha, a popular drink in Ecuador, which a student of Herz’s watched as it was made? To prepare the thick beverage, a group of women put handfuls of corn flour in their mouths, chewed it until it “vaguely resembled the vomit of an infant,” spit it out into a collective milk jug and repeated the process until all the flour was gone. Then the women capped the jug and buried it in the yard to ferment. When a well-aged jug of chicha was unearthed and opened for the grossed-out young woman to taste, it took all her self-control not to gag on the warm, vinegary brew.

Too disgusting for you? Here’s one more, my own personal last straw: the information that in China, “chefs can serve you monkey brains from a living monkey sitting at your feet with its skull carved open.”

This is the point at which I wrote, “O.K., that does it,” in the margin — and I was only on Page 17. Still to come were descriptions of mucus, semen, blood (both menstrual and nonmenstrual), vomit, pus, feces, phlegm; stories about slasher porn, cannibalism, necro*philia; and Herz’s attempt to tie it all together with explanations of how disgust evolved, how it protects us, how it works in our brains, and how it keeps us from having to confront our own weaknesses and our own inevitable death.

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On the topic of disgust, here's an amusing book review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/thats-disgusting-unraveling-t...c=me
Disgusting .
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Daily Kos: Study Connects Low IQ with Conservatives

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The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found.


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or those defective in faith capacity tend to compensate via humanist rationalism (a false path) and thus score higher in biased IQ testing, and such people tend to gravitate to liberal and libertarian political philosophies.
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defective in faith capacity? very funny... my liberal Quaker friends went into the south during the civil rights movement facing down the clan, taking beatings and spending time in jail for their liberal faith... who has the faith deficiency? Surely you can't be suggesting the conservatives who were calling them communists and outside agitators were in possession of some kind of superior faith? How is it possible that many of those conservatives came up with justifications for segregation, and what does that say about conservative faith?

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