Session 31 - As a Gay Man, I think Ra's take on Homosexuality is idiotic

[YinYang]

In my first post of this thread I linked an article which explores the link between prejudice and low IQ, and one can certainly observe it with these extreme right-wing white supremacist groups, and most fundamentalist movements.

But there’s another personality type that isn’t necessarily intellectually challenged that is also always very prejudiced, and that’s the authoritarian personality.

Theodor Adorno’s 1950s book The Authoritarian Personality (Studies in Prejudice) is quite a seminal work in this field. He measured authoritarianism with an F-scale – F standing for fascist.  Authoritarian personalities seek extreme order, and they struggle to make sense of a world filled with infinite variety, abstract concepts, confusion and chaos, and then they proceed to try and “create order”, which leads to fascism and totalitarianism if they’re not met with resistance. With fascist regimes, the first group who is usually in danger is homosexuals - Nazi Germany, Italy during Mussolini's reign, Apartheid South Africa, etc.

Ra also speaks of this order which is characteristic of negativity.

It may seem that the rational or analytical mind might have more of a possibility of successfully pursuing the negative orientation due to the fact that in our understanding too much order is by its essence negative. However, this same ability to structure abstract concepts and to analyze experiential data may be the key to rapid positive polarization.

So this week was interesting for me to observe how we as a nation who is extremely sensitive to fascism and authoritarianism due to our recent past, reacted to this situation with this fundamentalist preacher and hatemonger. We have the most liberal constitution in the world, it's a thing of beauty, written by very positive entities and finally signed off by the big man Mandela himself, so I just got this smile on my face when the decision to bar him from entry was released to the media. I'm still smiling.