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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: -1, Insightful) by jmorris on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:37PM (2 children)
Nazi ideas were tested and destroyed Germany. Look at the pathetic cucks on the Stools of Eternal Repentance along with the South here in the U.S. Bad idea.
After a Century of making identity politics and Anti-White bigotry the central idea in American politics people are actually shocked when some of the Whites decided to group up and play the game by the published rules. Good, bad, doesn't matter, the reaction was utterly predictable. Considering the ferocity of the assault, the amazing thing is it has taken this long and such extreme provocation to generate the, up to now, fairly mild reaction we now see. Yet judging by the shock and horror it was apparently inconceivable that white people would ever resist their extermination. Fascinating.
Notice that even the linked "quiz" / push poll propaganda is entirely focused around the idea that group identity politics is the only lens to view the world and policy questions through.
So what is the argument against "White identity" or even "White Power" politics? Don't even try the "you can't be a racist unless you have power" crap, all of the White Nationalists have less power than BLM. BLM can riot with impunity, none of their leaders have even been arrested and sent off to prison. That is power. Antifa can riot, often wearing masks, and rarely be arrested. That is power. Both can make demands under threats of violence and have them met. Power. They tend to control the political power structure in the places they are active. Again, power. Sharpton has incited riots and accumilated a body count, he remains a respectable sort of fellow who can host a TV show, appear on the stage as a Presidential (albeit a joke) candidate, etc. Show me where the White Nationalists have any actual power, influence or platform. But the Narrative says they are racist. Hmm.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:42PM (1 child)
Found another one!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @01:20AM
You must be new here.