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.
(Score: 5, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:02PM (4 children)
Or you could've just said "losers."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:03AM (3 children)
Found the overprivileged member of the privileged class. Or as you like to call yourselves, winners.
So which are you? Preferred Veteran? Black? Female? Gay?
Or are you one of the ever popular Gregarious Greedy Assholes who shout "fuck you I makes me my money" ?
For examples, see MDC and TMB. MDC is more a gregarious greedy dickhead since his bald head looks like a dick. TMB is the dirty asshole.
We the nerds had a nice internet before you unskilled social shitstains invaded. Fuck off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @01:47AM
You're about as nerdy as a dingleberry . . .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @01:55AM
I gave a hundred bucks to the Houston food not bombs
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:41AM
What? I'm just a non-Nazi. I didn't realise calling Nazis losers would be so contentious.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk