Prejudice, Intelligence And The GOP

I just set the record for late starts. Today I didn't get up until 3pm. I know...I know, WTF.
I culd-a slept some more but my thinking was, "hell man, it must be, like 10am-ish...I should get up." So I got up. It's really weirdo drinking coffee in the afternoon, when I'm usually drinking beer at this time. Any who...

Sometimes stupidity is funny, but when it goes too far, then...it's sad.

I'm still very groggy, but you can imagine how shocked I was to discover that not only is bigotry stupid head, but so are the practitioners of bigotry. Really, it was in a survey so it must be true, right. Fellow Team members, whether on Team Atheist, Team Prog-Lib, Team Feminist or Team LGBT, often wonder (out loud and frustrated) "why they hating on us." It must be so frustrating for my LGBT homies to be prejuice-d on by conservatives, when the LGBT homies have not done anything to them. Imagine being a super hottie (because you have an evolved state of mind and you are independent) but you get prejuice-d on by a sexist conservative (probably white) male and all YOU did was get up and go to work in the morning-probably really frustrating, non'.

I Googled "smart Asian people" to get this one.

( I'll create a new paragraph for this next one...) What if you are on the Mighty Team Atheist and you read over and over again in all the newspapers and studies and surveys that you are more hated than murder'rs and trusted less than a rapist. Of course you're gonna go, "WTFF*".  Well, here's the answer...

"Low intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies...Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change (I underlined that), attitudes that can contribute to prejudice."

A million gazillion studies that preceded this one concluded things like hi levels of prejudice are directly linked to low levels of that education that the prog-libs, science minded and generally better looking and smarter than you are peeps keep talking about. Sooooo, you have so little education that you are considered, I'll just say it, stupid, combined with subscribing to a system that "stress hierarchy and resistance to change", gosh where have we seen anything like that before...RELIGION**

This is a world map of IQ's. Of course i don't understand it.

Generally speaking the republican right is God's party. Generally speaking the more education one has, the more likely that person is an atheist and visa versa. The less educated a person is the more likely they are religious and not only that, the more likely a person is uneducated, the more likely they will believe that the bible is written by God and without err (air, I thought it was funny). Finally, and this is just my opinion, I didn't go all survey to find out this information, but...the party with the most rednecks (GOP) is the party most likely to believe bullshit, never question that, and hate brown people (there I said it.)

* WTFF...What the frackin' fuck.

** That is the first time I evah had to use the capital locks combined with the "bold."

*** OK, I changed tone middle way there, sorry. not very focused. any who. Read the article it has bunches and bunches of good information...and they don't fool around. Awesome.

*** SF Gate

News Roundup On Follow Atheist Friday

Why is it that when Team Atheist is in the news...it is always a bad negative thing. Oh well, any publicity is good publicity, right(?). Any who, Elevatorgate was the feature article in my favorite religion news aggregator, Religion News Service. The awesome sauce thingy about elevatrogate is that as a community, Team Atheist did address sexism and we are game to combat it within our own ranks. We need the ladies so much in the sciences, in the atheist blogosphere and in skepticism movements. BTW, RNS has a pretty fair amount of ladies writers reporting the news, so bully for them. Check it out.

Yesterday I wrote about how Islamophobia is being taught to the F.B.I., the armed forces and law enforcement. Today the F.B.I. has announced that it is dropping those programs (should never have happened in the first place). Check out yesterdays posts there are good links to Mother Jones and Slate. For those keeping track of the Christians that want to take over the world, known as dominionist, there is lot's of info for your score cards.

So, it is totally bad for authorities to teach Islamophobia and it is also super bad and wrong for uneducated and super stupid citizens to go old school and try their hand at vigilante violence. 9/11 is also the anniversary of stupid heads that attacked a peaceful Sikh dude because they thought he was...Muslim. So frackin' stupid, but I geuss that is what bigotry is-stupid. It is like when a loser calls me a 'chink' or a 'Jap' when I'm 100% brown hunky Filipino. At least get it right.

In the City by the Bay, the city that brought us OJ Simpson and your truly, 2,000 dirty stinky unimmunized kids were sent home from school because they did not receive the whooping cough vaccine. Gee I wonder if the deadbeat parents subscribe to the Jenny "I've killed many kids" McCarthey's philosophy of vaccines are bad bad bad, or are they not versed in the understanding of science, medicine (hello, herd mentality), or is it...all of the above. Regardless, keep your dirty stinky not-immunized kids away from me. I don't want to die of a disease that is easily preventable. Really.

Keeping with the pseudoscience-y stuffs...Dr. Oz, the multimillionaire that thrives off of selling bogus products with no medicinal value to people that really need help, has been called out for yelling "fire in a crowded theatre." Oz said that apple juice has too much arsenic in it and is hazardous to children. Basically the test he used was for something else (wastewater) therefore the results are no good, arsenic occurs naturally in lot's o' things, like, water, and I don't know this fo sho, but dude is probably selling the cure to apple juice arsenic (phobia) poisoning. Dude, scam much. Sheez.

I don't have too much info on this one, but my skeptic meter is going off. Authorities report that a young boy has emerged from the woods in Germany...speaking English. I don't know if this is a case of mysteriously speaking a foreign  language (skeptics dictionary) or an Ishi thing. I just know it sounds fishy and is a job for Team Skeptic.

Lastly, Christians at Vanderbilt U infiltrated a frat party with hidden microphones demanding that they repent.

That is all folks.

Really, honestly, I'm not attracted to stupidity. I don't care what the 'packaging' is. Awesome, sweetheart, atheist, skeptic lady, that is totally smart-n-stuffs...I'm still waiting and still available (and I don't care what the 'packaging' looks like. I way better than that. Hope to c'ya soon...whoever you are, Kriss.