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posted by mrpg on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-y'all-love-social-sciences dept.

It's 2017. Why are there still Nazis?

It's a question many observers are asking after hundreds of white supremacists, many displaying swastikas and Confederate battle flags and shouting racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-communist slogans, took to the streets of Charlottesville, Va., this weekend, provoking violence that claimed the life of one counter-protester and resulted in multiple injuries.

The continued existence of people who hold openly white supremacist ideologies more than seven decades after the fall of the Third Reich can be explained, in part, through a social theory developed in the early 1990s. Social dominance theory seeks to explain how hierarchy-enhancing ideologies do not just drive social inequality, but are also a result of it. It suggests that a single personality trait, called social dominance orientation (SDO), strongly predicts a person's political and social views, from foreign policy and criminal justice to civil rights and the environment. What's more, it offers insight into how ideologies such as racism, sexism, and xenophobia tend to arise from the unequal distribution of a society's resources.

"Social dominance theory provides a yardstick for measuring social and political ideologies," says Felicia Pratto, who developed the theory with fellow psychologist Jim Sidanius. "SDO is one way – not the only one – to try to figure out what those ideologies are 'about.'"

You too can take the Social Dominance Orientation quiz to determine your nazi quotient.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by ledow on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:19PM (5 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:19PM (#569131) Homepage

    Why are there still stupid people?

    Why are there still strict religious people?

    Why are there still flat-earthers?

    Why are there still all kinds of people?

    Because stupid people will always exist.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:11AM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:11AM (#569197) Homepage

    Why are there still Nazis? Because goddamn Jews are the scourge of the planet.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:52AM (1 child)

      by jmorris (4844) on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:52AM (#569210)

      Doesn't explain why Nazi. All Nazis are racist but not all racists are Nazi. Nazi is after all a very new thing historically speaking.

      That would explain why racist. Every racist hates at least one or more racial groups, always including Jews unless they have never encountered any. Including Jews themselves, hence the stereotype of the self hating Jew.

      Unavoidable at this point really, the Jews survived the Diaspora by developing a culture that could retain cohesion as a minority within pretty much every other culture and they became very clannish and in grouped. So wherever they are found they will be working to safeguard their always precarious status by building ever more power and wealth. The benefits of strong ingroup networking combined with above average intelligence means they almost always become a wealthy minority. Their extreme ingroup trait and the antisemitism they encounter as a reaction means they will work to weaken the host culture as a self defense mechanism.

      They should be 'encouraged' to either migrate home or fully assimilate. Especially in white lands where they can pull the "Quantum Jew" routine. But allowing a powerful, wealthy, smart and utterly hostile minority to remain is suicidal. Notice that most of the Alt-Right is pro Israel. Jews there aren't a problem, they should be free to aspire to greatness in their own land.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Immerman on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:43AM

        by Immerman (3985) on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:43AM (#569250)

        I read an interesting editorial several days back specifically about neo-nazism. The premise being that with the huge negative publicity that historical Nazis have gotten, pretty much everybody recognizes that they were monsters. And so neo-Nazism, actually voluntarily identifying yourself as a Nazi, is heavily dominated by individuals who want to be monsters themselves - the white (hetero-normative) supremacy is more of a rallying point around that cause than the focus itself - it gives them a common target, but the thing that really unifies them is the desire to have *any* target.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:10AM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:10AM (#569262)

    Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend? All you have to do is follow the worms... Roger Waters 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Worms [wikipedia.org]

    MAGA... Carrot Top 2016

    You'd like to think things have changed, but in a lot of ways they haven't.

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    🌻🌻 [google.com]