Can you square the contradiction between these two statements:
I can. It is not causation, it is statistical correlation, via personality traits.
It does not mean that your personality traits dictate who you vote for, at all. It simply means it seems that the big 5 personality traits that are common among those who agree with the social justice / cancellation / shunning going on, tend to currently have very left-leaning political views.
What is the key here, is that not all who have left-leaning political views are cancelists!
Note that I myself pointed out that in the past, when the mainstream conformist pressure was towards conservatism, the cancelist/shunners were conservative. This all goes down into herd mentality and social pressure mechanisms in urban environments.
Dave's
"And yes, it's practically a 100% left leaning phenomenom. The "right" seem to just shrug their shoulders and go, meh." is my observation also.
Note:
my observation. That is also how I understood Dave meant it too: that Dave hasn't seen any right-wingers trying to cancel others.
I do understand that in USA, McCarthyism was a thing (right-wing cancellism), but hasn't been a thing for decades now.
This easily explains why that culture has permeated our school system so thoroughly in the last ten-fifteen years. As the baby boomers have retired, there was simply nobody left to push back on the ideologically-driven hogwash. And the results we already know: PISA scores plummeting.
Do you have a source or is this your own conclusion?
My own conclusion, largely based on my personal contacts and observations wrt. teacher education in the last two decades. I could have prefaced that paragraph with "in my opinion", but I thought it obvious.
If you are interested in finding out for yourself, I recommend you compare the comprehensive school curriculum (
suomeksi,
på svenska), to those in say mid-1990s. (Of course, the old ones are not on the web, so to do such research, you need to contact OPH and hope you find someone willing to do extra work for you.)
The current one is full of ideas and models created in this century, relying on them without any scientific basis, except for their proponents hopes and beliefs. 'Yhteisöllinen oppiminen', or 'community learning', is a central one; and quite a few comprehensive school teachers I know say that it just does not work at all in practice. If you take the time to read through it, and do a proper source review for each concept embedded in it, you'll find that "hogwash" is an apt characterization for it.