Democrats less tolerant?

[rjs330]

Here is a study that seems to point out that democrats are less tolerant of other beliefs than republicans are. I've believed the left is less tolerant than the right over all and this study seems to point that out.

Dartmouth study finds students who ID as Democrat are least tolerant

 

[Sanoy]

Today's tolerance refers to singular moments of extreme tolerance.

 

[expos4ever]

Misleading. The study addresses issues of dating and “befriending” only. It is completely silent on other issues more typically defining “tolerance” like immigration and views about race and slternate lifestyles.

 

[TuxAme]

Misleading. The study addresses issues of dating and “befriending” only. It is completely silent on other issues more typically defining “tolerance” like immigration and views about race and slternate lifestyles.

Does that really help the case against the study (which I actually haven't looked at), though? All it would mean is that democrats have endless tolerance for some people, but none for people that think differently than them.

 

[bhsmte]

Here is a study that seems to point out that democrats are less tolerant of other beliefs than republicans are. I've believed the left is less tolerant than the right over all and this study seems to point that out.

Dartmouth study finds students who ID as Democrat are least tolerant

I don't know if I agree, in general.

What I can say, is those folks on the far right and far left, are both intolerant of the other sides positions.

 

[DaisyDay]

Or Republican Dartmouth students are less honest in answering the questions? Who knows? How many of each are there in Dartmouth?

From the Dartmouth:
Dartmouth’s student body is about two-thirds Democrat (67 percent) with small minorities of Republican identifiers (19 percent) and Independents (14 percent), a distribution consistent with previous survey results at the College. Significant demographic divides appear only for gender and for athlete status. Surveyed women are 79 percent Democrat versus 12 percent Republican, while the divide among men is 55 percent and 27 percent, respectively. Athletes at the College are 52 percent Democrat versus 32 percent Republican, while the split is 71 percent to 16 percent for non-athletes. White Dartmouth students are not politically different from non-white students as a whole, but African-American students are more likely to be Democrats.

Methodology Notes

From Monday, Apr. 23 to Sunday, Apr. 29, The Dartmouth fielded an online survey of Dartmouth undergraduates about the role of politics in social life on campus. The survey was sent out to 4,412 students through their College email addresses. Four hundred ninety-eight responses were recorded, making for an 11.3 percent response rate. Using administrative data from the College’s Office of Institutional Research and other sources, responses were first weighted by Greek affiliation for all eligible (non-freshmen) students, then weighted by class year, gender, race/ethnicity, international student status and varsity athlete status for all students. Iterative post-stratification (raking) was the method used for weighting, done with the “survey” package in R. Survey results for the entire sample have a margin of error +/- 4.4. Subgroup differences are statistically significantly different from one another unless otherwise noted, and all reported differences hold in multivariate models.
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[USincognito]

Here's a much less biased source.
A survey of Dartmouth's political landscape
The actual survey was for having a roommate with different political views than oneself and whether certain speakers should be allowed to speak on campus.

 

[ViaCrucis]

See it's all about what you tolerate. Liberalism only concerns the matter of walking in sin and that is all they care about. They are far more tolerant to deviant erotic behavior. That is the tolerance the world only cares for.

How's that hardliner stance against sinful behavior working out for y'all on the Right?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[rambot]

See it's all about what you tolerate. Liberalism only concerns the matter of walking in sin and that is all they care about. They are far more tolerant to deviant erotic behavior. That is the tolerance the world only cares for.

And yet republicans supported who for president again?

I really don't think there is any more "line in the sand" regarding whether republicans or democrats REALLY have some kind of moral high road in terms of sexual attitudes.

 

[angeltrue]

Here is a study that seems to point out that democrats are less tolerant of other beliefs than republicans are. I've believed the left is less tolerant than the right over all and this study seems to point that out.

Dartmouth study finds students who ID as Democrat are least tolerant

I've seen that. It's such hypocrisy.

 

[rjs330]

I don't know if I agree, in general.

What I can say, is those folks on the far right and far left, are both intolerant of the other sides positions.

I would agree with this. The thing that interests me is that the study covered Democrats and Republicans not far right and far left who I would think are equally intolerant. Two sides of the same coin.

 

[rjs330]

And yet republicans supported who for president again?

I really don't think there is any more "line in the sand" regarding whether republicans or democrats REALLY have some kind of moral high road in terms of sexual attitudes.

I agree with this. Trump certainly wasn't chosen because of his great morality. I think he was chosen because people were so sick and tired of the nonsense in government that they wanted someone they thought would actually do something no matter if the person had amazing morality or not. I think it shows just how disgusted people were.

Sad it came to that.

 

[expos4ever]

See it's all about what you tolerate. Liberalism only concerns the matter of walking in sin and that is all they care about. They are far more tolerant to deviant erotic behavior. That is the tolerance the world only cares for.

A ridiculous statement.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

I've seen that. It's such hypocrisy.

Could you give some examples of what you've seen? I ask because my experience has been the complete opposite. You can read my previous posts here and here for examples. Your examples?

 

[Shiloh Raven]

See it's all about what you tolerate. Liberalism only concerns the matter of walking in sin and that is all they care about. They are far more tolerant to deviant erotic behavior. That is the tolerance the world only cares for.

That is a very ironic statement considering how many evangelical conservative Christians support Donald Trump. Let's examine the deviant erotic behavior and walking in sin of Donald Trump.

(1) He's in his third marriage to his former mistress.

(2) He had an affair with a porn star when his former mistress wife was pregnant.

(3) He paid $130,000 to that porn star to silence her about their affair.

(4) He bragged about groping multiple women and forcing himself on them.

(5) He joked about how he would have dated his daughter if she hadn't been his daughter.

(6) He agreed with Howard Stern that his daughter was a piece of...

(7) He's an admitted serial adulterer and philander. He bragged about his sexual exploits.

(8) He bragged about watching young beauty pageant teenage girls getting undressed.

I listed many more examples in my previous post, located here, included 37 different articles clearly demonstrating Donald Trump "walking in sin" and demonstrating his deviant erotic behavior.

A word to the wise... "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones," especially when they politically support and defend Donald Trump. It makes them appear to be very hypocritical when they attempt to claim that their political opponents on the left are tolerate to sin. It also casts a shadow of doubt upon their moral convictions against sin and makes it impossible to take their moral convictions or even take their evangelical Christian faith seriously when they support and defend Donald Trump.

 

[rambot]

I agree with this. Trump certainly wasn't chosen because of his great morality. I think he was chosen because people were so sick and tired of the nonsense in government that they wanted someone they thought would actually do something no matter if the person had amazing morality or not. I think it shows just how disgusted people were.

Sad it came to that.

well to some extent when i hear "[he] would actually do something" it sounds a bit like they want someone with some tyrannical qualities then. Id really thought the checks and balances thing was a proud point of american govt.
I think people chose him because of his policies and they like his bullying personality.

 

[DaisyDay]

(2) He had an affair with a porn star when his former mistress wife was pregnant.

This one is not accurate. Melanie had just given birth; she was no longer pregnant when he had that tryst.

 

[Inkfingers]

I've believed the left is less tolerant than the right over all

The Left are not less tolerant than the Right.

It's just that each tolerates different things.

 

[Shadow]

Or Republican Dartmouth students are less honest in answering the questions? Who knows? How many of each are there in Dartmouth?

From the Dartmouth:
Dartmouth’s student body is about two-thirds Democrat (67 percent) with small minorities of Republican identifiers (19 percent) and Independents (14 percent), a distribution consistent with previous survey results at the College. Significant demographic divides appear only for gender and for athlete status. Surveyed women are 79 percent Democrat versus 12 percent Republican, while the divide among men is 55 percent and 27 percent, respectively. Athletes at the College are 52 percent Democrat versus 32 percent Republican, while the split is 71 percent to 16 percent for non-athletes. White Dartmouth students are not politically different from non-white students as a whole, but African-American students are more likely to be Democrats.

Methodology Notes

From Monday, Apr. 23 to Sunday, Apr. 29, The Dartmouth fielded an online survey of Dartmouth undergraduates about the role of politics in social life on campus. The survey was sent out to 4,412 students through their College email addresses. Four hundred ninety-eight responses were recorded, making for an 11.3 percent response rate. Using administrative data from the College’s Office of Institutional Research and other sources, responses were first weighted by Greek affiliation for all eligible (non-freshmen) students, then weighted by class year, gender, race/ethnicity, international student status and varsity athlete status for all students. Iterative post-stratification (raking) was the method used for weighting, done with the “survey” package in R. Survey results for the entire sample have a margin of error +/- 4.4. Subgroup differences are statistically significantly different from one another unless otherwise noted, and all reported differences hold in multivariate models.
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It may be that the degree of tolerance may not be simply the result of a person's political beliefs, but simply how popular those beliefs are. Democrats (67%) can afford to be more choosy in the company they keep, whereas Republicans (19%) and Independents (14%) are outnumbered and so are going to have to work out compromises with people of different political beliefs regardless of their personal preferences.

Bigotry works both ways; the extreme fringes can be very sectarian by rejecting people they think aren't "pure" or "orthodox" enough in following the party-line. But people who tend to be in the centre or the mainstream, also share a bigotry against those they regard as "extremist", "subversive", "dangerous", etc. [I think its called In-group favouritism in psychology.] Political Ideology may not be as important as social psychology; If Republicans made up 67% of the student body, they'd be in a position to chose their friends more often to exclude people they'd disagree with.

 

[FireDragon76]

I object to the study's premise. That is defining tolerance in only narrow political terms.