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    Default Studies show left wing people to be less tolerant and generous

    I found this article on a french blog and translated it. It's about the contradictions of left-wing people who claim to be the side of tolerance and generosity, while in practice it seems to be the contrary.
    (We're speaking here of tolerance towards different opinions)


    Left-wing people, and more generally all interventionnists, are the first to claim values of tolerance and generosity. Especially about the latter, the will to use the state to "social" ends is presented as a proof of generosity.
    "Social" politics are naturally good, other "selfish". However, as recent studies show, it's left-wing people who are the least tolerant and the least generous.

    "Intolerance is a contagious illness for it always contaminates those who fight against it", said Raymond Aron [ZV : French-jewish philosopher mostly known for his works about totalitarism and who was marginalized by french left-wing philosophers because he also strongly condemned communism, which they did not.]

    This sentence could apply to the french Left who made of struggle against intolerance one of its mottos and yet, to believe (left-wing) sociologist Anne Muxel, appears to be far less tolerant than the Right

    Anne Muxel led a sociological study to see how left-wing and right-wing people reacted towards close people who don't share their ideas. The verdict was without appeal : people who claim to be right-wing prove to be much more tolerant than people who claim to be left-wing.
    What explains this greater tolerance from the Right, is its culture of freedom (and so the liberal influence) to believe Anne Muxel in her book Toi, moi et la politique, amour et conviction ( You, me and politics, love and convictions).

    The sociologist summarized the conclusions of her work on France Inter [ZV : french radio station]

    "It was a surprise to me when I began this study, considering that the values of tolerance, respect of difference, respect of the other are part of a culture claimed by the Left ; and indeed there is more difficulty for people who classify themselves to the Left to accept political divergence in the private sphere, in the intimate sphere, in their affective contacts with others... It's true that to the Right, the right-wing culture supposes freedom, the other's freedom, the freedom of everyone to think and live as he wants, and this implies a greater open-mindedness, a greater tolerance to difference
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    These results from a sociological study are unsuprisingly supported by a study on the respective generosity of right-wing and left-wing people.

    Arthur Brooks is doctor of economy, specialist of social and behavioural economics. In Who really cares (Basic Books, 2006), he studies the respective behaviours of american conservatives and liberals (left-wingers) in terms of generosity.

    These two positions have a concrete translation in the behaviour of the individuals who assume them : those who "think that the government should lead a policy of greater redistribution" give... clearly less to associations or the less fortunate than those who want to reduce the role of the State. This despite the formers having an income superior by 6% to the latters.

    Once again, it's the individualistic culture which explains for a great part this difference in generosity depending on political opinions. Those who trust the individual and not the State to give to others give more. Those who appeal to the State's action give clearly less and lie upon others to help the less fortunate. They have no right to assume the notion of generosity of which they speak a lot but don't put into practice.

    We find exactly the same scheme about blood donation. Right-wing people donate their blood more often than left-wing people. If left-wing and centre people donated as much blood as the right-wing, there would be 45% more blood donation in the US according to Brooks ! ("If liberals and moderates gave blood at the same rate as conservatives, the blood supply of the United States would jump about 45 percent.")

    Another interesting comparison is between US and Canada. As writes Martin Masse from Canada :

    "One could assume that a society like Québec, where the words solidarity, equity and compassion are in all mouths, a society that "resist the cold right-wing wind that blows on the rest of the continent", like our politicians who defend the "québecois model" like to tell, would be a place where individuals showed more generosity than elsewhere. Compared to those Anglo materialists and individualists from the rest of the continent, aren't we a big generous family ?

    Well no. As polls and studies show year after year, Canadians are less generous than Americans, and Québecois are the least generous of Canadians. They are thus the northern-Americans who contribute the least to charity works.
    A study from the Fraser Forum of december 2000 (Canadian & American Monetary Generosity), that compares all american states and canadian provinces in terms of generosity (number of donators and amount of donations) puts the provinces at the bottom of the list. It's Alberta, paradise of conservatism and minimum taxes, that shows the best face. Québec is last.

    This reality is not so surprising and the explanation is very simple. The québecois taxpayer must bear the heaviest state on the continent and must contribute to finance a lot of social programs for the poorests. Logically, he tells himself that he already did his share. Why give a second time to private foundations, when you already have to give for public programs ?

    Québecois are not more selfish than other northern Americans, they act rationnally in their own socialist context. Albertans too, who have the lower taxes in the country. They logically feel more responsible and donate more to private foundations.

    The result is however not the same on the moral ground. Private donators may really claim to be generous : it's their own money they donate, freely and willingly. On the contrary, public charity is a vast socialist trickery. Those who donate are forced to do so. And those who claim the merit for it, in the government, are in reality but highwaymen and hypocrites.
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    Conclusion

    The list of studies supporting these conclusions would be endless, but the idea remain the same. When one always asks the State to do everything, one ends up doing nothing for the other by himself. Always striving towards more socialism and statism, is striving to a closed society. Socialism and statism, be they from Left or Right, only lead to a society of intolerant and withdrawn into themselves people.

    Striving towards an open society implies to responsibilize the individual, to stop entrusting the state with everything to give the power back to its source : the individual. As some say it well, "I didn't betray my socialist ideals by becoming a liberal". Those who really want the development of the individual in an open and tolerant society can only want a society of freedom.
    We shall overcome

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