Study: Liberals Want Censorship More Than Moderates, Conservatives

 



By Corinne Weaver | September 4, 2019 10:04 AM EDT

Censorship is in direct opposition to the ideal of free speech and  the First Amendment. However, it seems to be a priority for those who espouse a liberal ideology, as shown by a new study from Marietta College. 

The research found that liberals were more likely to censor a statement if it disagreed with their values than moderates and conservatives. Liberals were more interested in censoring statements that criticized women, African Americans, and Islam than conservatives and moderates. 

Conservatives, on the other hand, were more likely to censor swearing and gore than moderates and liberals, according to the study by Marietta Assistant Professor of Psychology Bo Winegard and Durham University Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Psychology Cory Clark called, The Ideology of Censorship.

Furthermore, millennials were more likely to censor ideological statements than those from Gen X, or Baby Boomers. The results here were more marginal, i.e. age did not have that much difference on who wanted censorship.

The study showed the 559 participants (recruited via crowdsourcing app Mechanical Turk) five different controversial statements. One-hundred-and-thirty-five of participants were conservative, 114 were moderate, and 307 were liberal. 

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