MichaelJan 20
https://dorseteye.com/damning-report-finds-that-anti-immigration-right-wing-views-correlate-closely-with-low-educational-attainment/
Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment - Dorset Eye

A person with no educational qualifications had around 2 times the odds of voting for either the Conservatives or Reform UK than someone with a university degree or higher.  A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly […]

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Show threadAndiiJan 21
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To elucidate from the article: "A person with no educational qualifications had around 2 times the odds of voting for either the Conservatives or Reform UK than someone with a university degree or higher.
A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education."
#education #FarRight
Show threadBen 🏳️‍⚧️🍉Jan 21
@Andii @therightarticle Is it an uncomfortable verdict for right wing movements though? I see it as consistent with their attack on education. They know this already and their response is to make sure people are less educated.
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@benofbrown @therightarticle
I guess that we've known for quite a while that university education tends towards support politically leftwards, and I think the RWers have been reckoning with this for a while now.
It is not though that they 'make sure' by simply legislating that, in effect, only the relatively rich can have education beyond the basics needed to have a McJob. No, it's a stochastic and longer-term strategy (like the Mount Pelerin Society's macroeconomic project). The don't (in this phase at least) 'make sure' but rather set in place tendencies that erode access to education. And, I might add, that keep people too tired and anxious to think straight.
I'm minded though of some history I learnt in West Yorkshire -about how the trade unions and working people's institutions put a lot of effort into education. We may need to revive that.
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Show threadAndiiJan 21
@benofbrown @therightarticle
Ironically, of course, the level of education needed to strategise in this sort of way is quite high. The puzzle then is how this education doesn't produce the political goods in these folk ...