Joanna: if you remember? From where? I'm not persuaded that maintenance of traditional white male prerogative is the explanation. It wouldn't account, anyway for right wing women, would it? Again, we have an empirical question here. This is one on which there is lots of work. I'm not sure that there is any consensus, however.
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On Sep 11, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ravi: "That’s the standard liberal argument, isn’t it? That the
> wealthy are duping the masses? "
>
> [WS:] Not really. The wealthy are using the masses but not duping
> them. Development of popular beliefs is a complex issue - its
> grounded in cognitive distortions as well as framing but it also
> responds to genuine belief and yearnings of the masses. The wealthy
> and their agents certainly can influence the framing but they do not
> implant what the masses think. It is a far more dynamic process than
> simple "hypodermic needle" (a metaphor used in media research.)
>
> One thing seems certain, though - the conservatives are much better at
> framing the issues to promote their agenda than liberals are.
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
>
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