{"id":247048,"date":"2023-09-23T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=247048"},"modified":"2023-09-23T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:38:06","slug":"the-enemy-of-your-enemy","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/the-enemy-of-your-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"The enemy of your enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been nice to see a broad generational trend towards tolerance for LGBT+ people, considering the entrenched bigotry that seemed to pervade western societies until quite recently.<\/p>\n

A new study <\/a>suggests a darker side to this trend though, particularly among conservative voters. It turns out that if you ask them straight out, they’re not very tolerant of LGBT+ rights, gay marriage etc. But if you first prime them with pictures of Muslims, whose religion is widely known to be homophobic, they profess themselves much more tolerant of LGBT+, possibly as a way to justify anti-immigration views.<\/p>\n

‘This may indicate that the liberal credentials of the UK, and other western nations, is likely far more superficial than first thought.’ Indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-247048","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/247048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}