SHIT, LET'S BE RIGHT-WING AUTHORITARIANS:
http://personality-testing.info/tests/RWAS/
Bit of a shit test, a lot of questions conflate stuff. Like for example,
Our country desperately needs a mighty leader who will do what has to be done to destroy the radical new ways and sinfulness that are ruining us.
What if these ways aren't new any more, but are well-established? And the opposition between legitimate authority and "noisy rabble-rousers" ignores the fact that the kind of movements it's ostensibly dealing with tend to be novel at their height, and thus arise in opposition to existing social order. Both Hitler and Donald Trump chose to run against an existing establishment that people aren't happy with, so this question is both historically stupid and not relevant to contemporary topics.
Honestly, this seems like some left wing academic Californian's "are you a bad guy" test. The only purpose it serves is giving you a low score or demonizing you for getting a high one, while allowing its creator to pat himself on the back for not getting a real job.
List of especially dumb statements:
- Atheists and others who have rebelled against the established religions are no doubt every bit as good and virtuous as those who attend church regularly. (Equivalent goodness could just as well be a negative, if answered by a fedora tipper)
- There is absolutely nothing wrong with nudist camps. (What does nudism have to do with authoritarianism? There's way too many reasons to have either opinion on this)
- Our country will be destroyed someday if... (Every country is destroyed eventually)
- A "woman's place" should be wherever she wants to be. The days when women are submissive to their husbands and social conventions belong strictly in the past.(A woman can do what she wants unless she wants what I don't want)
I ended up with a 46%, probably because I could think of caveats for most things and didn't use the extreme descriptors much at all. I would argue that this is, in fact, an indicator against the sort of dangerous thought patterns that this test endeavors to identify.
I WAS JOKE
Still are to be honest family