Mr. T's point was not about the right having become less authoritarian but about the left having become more, which is the reason Altemeyer might have changed his views.
So far I haven't been able to find an email address or other contact information for him. I wanted to tell him that I had put up the post so he could respond to it if he wanted to.
The left not only calls mainstream right-leaning beliefs "nazism" or "fascism", but arrogates labels such as Antifa to themselves, not from sincerity but as a way to silence their opponents. It's all confession through projection, as is the entire notion that authoritarians are mostly on the right. The opposite is true. But most public debate on the topic is poisoned by the fact that the left controls nearly all of the "mainstream" media (and have turned them so extreme as to forfeit the public's trust that used to make them mainstream).
For what it's worth, my answers to most of the list are that the questions are so sweeping and/or vague that "sometimes true" is the only accurate short answer.
My major reason for saying that the left is more authoritarian is that it is willing to use outrageous methods to shut its opponents up (such as deplatforming, swatting, violently attacking, or getting the opponent fired from his job, jailed for peacefully demonstrating, removed from ballots, or expelled from professional organizations) that the right will not attempt.
Well, a brief internet search shows that he jumped on the "Trump is a Fascist" bandwagon.
Mr. T's point was not about the right having become less authoritarian but about the left having become more, which is the reason Altemeyer might have changed his views.
So far I haven't been able to find an email address or other contact information for him. I wanted to tell him that I had put up the post so he could respond to it if he wanted to.
The left not only calls mainstream right-leaning beliefs "nazism" or "fascism", but arrogates labels such as Antifa to themselves, not from sincerity but as a way to silence their opponents. It's all confession through projection, as is the entire notion that authoritarians are mostly on the right. The opposite is true. But most public debate on the topic is poisoned by the fact that the left controls nearly all of the "mainstream" media (and have turned them so extreme as to forfeit the public's trust that used to make them mainstream).
For what it's worth, my answers to most of the list are that the questions are so sweeping and/or vague that "sometimes true" is the only accurate short answer.
My major reason for saying that the left is more authoritarian is that it is willing to use outrageous methods to shut its opponents up (such as deplatforming, swatting, violently attacking, or getting the opponent fired from his job, jailed for peacefully demonstrating, removed from ballots, or expelled from professional organizations) that the right will not attempt.
I also found this piece which seems relevant to this question:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/left-wing-authoritarianism-mirrors-far-right-research-finds-1.4729300