Slightly OT, an old (straight) friend of mine who is now a thriving real estate agent and auctioneer, reckons the worst mortgage/home loan risks are young hetro couples (“they often break up and then fight really hard over the assets”) and the best are single gay professionals.

I think around 25% is as good as it’s gonna get for now, equating roughly to a baseline “yuckiness” factor out there in the general populace at the moment.

Suz: I am not “desperate” to prove anything. I made a statement, it was commented on, & counter commented etc. Matter closed (or not, as the case may be).

Please state why you feel I am “conservative”. Is it something you read in the tarot cards? Or do you have more concrete documentary evidence?

I’m not a social scientist. If people disapprove of the category of people to which I belong such that they state that they wouldn’t want to live next door to people like me, I call that prejudice and I don’t call it “value-free�.

You are right, you are not a social scientist. You are confusing observer denotation of a behaviour with participant commendation.

I take my methodological cues from Max Weber whose attitude to political bias could best be described as Puritan paranoid. From the pov of a methodological puritan you are “getting involved” and should recuse yourself from the analytical case.

Interesting, one conservative here (SATP) is desperate to prove that everyone, of the left and right, is a bigot, while the other conservative is desperate for us to avoid prejudicial terms like “prejudice”.

I’m not a social scientist. If people disapprove of the category of people to which I belong such that they state that they wouldn’t want to live next door to people like me, I call that prejudice and I don’t call it “value-free”.

Webatrix!

Done by a webatrix!

Webmistress?

Given that people use the neologism “homophobic” is such incoherent ways, I think those who shriek accusations of “homophobia’ would be more interesting subjects for research.

Also the phrase In part the Decline of the Wets link was improperly tagged.

Sorry about the mess.

“As a corollary the Cultural Leftist ideological program is on the nose with the populus.”

If true then you’d expect parties like One nation to be in power, but, er, they’re not…

But, er, they are in a way. The median Australian voter is substantially more culturally conservative now than s/he was a decade ago. In part this Decline of the Wets is because of the Hanson phenomenon. Only professional sociologists of the Leftist persuasion are ostrich-headed enough to dispute this more or less slef-evident truth.

In stable two-party democracies like Australia we find that fringe parties, like One Nation on the Cultural Right or Greens on Ecological Left, do not necessarily do well in attaining formal office. Their success works indirectly on forcing the major parties to accept moderated forms of their core policies. This has been the fate of One Nation.

Both major parties now more or less accept a moderate version of One Nation cultural conservative policies ie strong border control, stamping out immigration rorts, aversion to hard-core multiculturalism, reform of indigenous welfare bureaucracies, promoting the birth rate of native women. Plus strong defence and plenty of flag waving.

Not to mention falling over themselves to give handouts to rural and regional Australia.

Larva Prodders seem to be afflicted with a bad case of false consciousness about the true state of political culture.

As a corollary the Cultural Leftist ideological program is on the nose with the populus.

If true then you’d expect parties like One nation to be in power, but, er, they’re not…

People want to show off their higher selves

Shame on them! People don’t want to be thought of bigots!