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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