From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Re: THE HOAXER PROJECT REPORT (Racist and Anti-Semitic Hoaxes and more!)
Date: 14 Apr 92 09:07:45 GMT
Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK

In article <13APR199208295174@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:

[Quoting Laird Wilcox on the characteristics of extremist groups]

>   1. Character assassination
>   2. Name calling and labeling
>   3. Irresponsible sweeping generalizations
>   4. Inadequate proof for assertions
>   5. Advocacy of double standards
>   6. Tendency to view their opponents and critics as essentially evil
>   7. Manichean worldview
>   8. Advocacy of some degee of censorship or repression of their
>      opponents and/or critics
>   9. Tend to identify themselves in terms of who their enemies are:
>      whom they hate and who hates them
>   10. Tendency toward argument by intimidation
>   11. Use of slogans, buzzwords, and thought-stopping cliches
>   12. Assumption of moral or other superiority over others
>   13. Doomsday thinking
>   14. Belief that it's okay to do bad things in the service of a "good"
>       cause
>   15. Emphasis on emotional responses and, correspondingly, less
>       importance attached to reasoning and logical analysis
>   16. Hypersensitivity and vigilance
>   17. Use of supernatural rationale for beliefs and actions
>   18. Problems tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty
>   19. Inclination toward "groupthink"
>   20. Tendency to personalize hostility
>   21. Extremists often feel that the system is no good unless they win

Consider Ralph.

1: Character assasination.  Some, but not as much as his opponents on
   this net.

2: Name calling and labeling.  Again, some but not as much as others
   round here.

3: Irresponsible sweeping generalisations.  Yes.  Jews control the
   media.  All holocaust evidence is a lie....

4: Inadequate proof for assertions.  Yes.

5: Advocacy of double standards.  Yes.  Decries racism, but splits
   world into "Jews" and "everyone else".

6: Tendency to view critics and opponents as essentially evil.  Some,
   but not as much as others view him.

7: "Manichean" world view (everything springs from Good source or Evil
   source).  Yes.  All Jews are evil until proven innocent.

8: Advocacy of some degree of censorship or repression.  Well he seems
   to feel that Jews in the Media should be removed, so Yes.  On the
   other hand some people have asked for Winston to be removed.

9: Tend to identify themselves in terms of enemies.  Yes.  Jews are
   the Enemy.

10: Argument by intimidation.  No. (a bit difficult over the net).

11: Use of slogans.  Apart from that silly .signature, his postings
    tend to the rhetorical.  Some.

12: Assumption of moral or other superiority over others.  Yes.
    Winston is the One who knows the Truth.  We are all dupes of the
    Jews.

13: Doomsday thinking.  Yes.  America is on the edge of disaster
    because of Jewish Media Control.

14: Belief that end justifies means.  Hard to say about his own
    behaviour, but he certainly seems to feel that the concentration
    camps were OK as long as they didn't kill anyone delibrately.
    Death from "natural causes" (i.e. neglect and starvation) seems
    not to count.

15: Emphasis on emotional responses rather than logic.  Yes.
    Arguments are weak.

16: Hypersensitivity and vigilance.  I don't know about
    hypersensitive, but Ralph seems to spend an awful lot of time on
    the Net.

17: Use of supernatural rational.  No.

18: Problems tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty.  Seems to be, yes.
    Everything is either Jewish or Non-jewish, and Ralph seems to feel
    this is of central importance.

19: Inclination towards groupthink.  Unknown.  No group to compare with.

20: Tendency to personalize hostility.  Some, but not as much as
    others on this net.

21: Feels system is no good unless he wins.  Yes.  Courts and Judges
    are rated according to how they judge Ralph's favoured causes.

Thats 13 out of 21.  Over 50%.  Opponents of Ralph on this net score
about 4 out of 21, most of which can be put down to extreme annoyance.

Paul.

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