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, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:17AM (15 children)
You're thinking of the French flag. If we had a north vs south scenario again and disregarded the nuclear weapons, the south would stomp the shit out of the north.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:37AM
Have you seen the second confederate flag?
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 17 2017, @01:45AM (13 children)
You can say that, knowing that cities like Austin have been infected with the liberal ideology? They are indoctrinating and infecting the youth with liberalism, and you think the South still has the strength to fight the North? No fucking way.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 17 2017, @02:29AM (12 children)
What I was referring to was all the military bases in the South. The big fuckers like Fort Bragg, Benning, Campbell, Hood, all that stuff around Pensacola etc.
I've been to Bragg many times. It's it's own city, and before 9/11 it was an open post and any Joe Shit the Ragman could just drive right in like any other city. Those army dudes are pretty cool, I enjoyed kicking it with them way more than I did the sniveling pussies of my own branch.
But yeah, Obeezy did start pussifying the military and because of that and heightened post-drawdown enlistment standards, all the tough potential recruits were weeded out and all the vets with combat experience are reluctantly bailing.
The point of the military is to fight. Brave people make better fighters than pussies do.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 17 2017, @02:53AM (11 children)
Speaking of sniveling pussies . . .
Have you read Tom Kratman's essay, Training for War? I think that I may read it again this weekend, depending on what comes up.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 17 2017, @05:44AM (10 children)
Your dick is still going to be microscopic and your daddy still won't love you, though. Maybe eventually you'll figure out you don't fix your broken manhood by jacking off to images of even more broken manhood.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:35AM (9 children)
This fixation on my dick - have you talked to your special other about it? Are you in an open relationship? You repeatedly make mention of my anatomy. Are you gay but curious? Are you wondering if you've missed out on something? What is the deal? If you are searching for something, please just say so. Although I'm not interested, some other Soylentil may offer what you need. Half of the people in the world have dicks, after all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:06AM
What? Runaway has a dick? Well, I never! I just assumed he was a Fox New Unick, just like Sean Hammity and Rusk Limpdick, who have no progeny, because they have no penises. But I have heard he has some kids. Adoption? Anchor babies? What is going on???
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:32PM (7 children)
You, um, aren't paying attention are you? I am gay, a gay woman, and my girlfriend's reaction to seeing your posts is identical: "yup, this guy's got the shrinky-dinks." This is what we refer to as a metaphor. Your actual anatomy may be of normal proportions, but the dick within, as it were, is causing you inadequacy and shame :D
Your responses are kind of, um, limp too.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 18 2017, @05:49AM (6 children)
More humor. Maybe I can be your agent, and get you some television time?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 18 2017, @04:48PM (5 children)
If you think your posts are in any way humorous, the only sort of agent I can recommend you is a family member with power of attorney. You are seriously beginning to worry me, in the "shit, is he getting early-onset Alzheimer's?" way.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 18 2017, @05:05PM (4 children)
Physician, heal thyself.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 18 2017, @08:35PM (3 children)
That's an admission of defeat. "Hurr hurr NO U!" didn't work in second grade and doesn't work now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 19 2017, @01:29PM (2 children)
I suppose that's a "whoosh". The quote wasn't from a second grade classroom - it was from Jesus. Think about it . . .
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:23PM (1 child)
And hey, guess what? When Jesus used it, he had a right to. When you used it just now...you didn't. There's this thing called context, and this other thing called external reality, and you seem to have a very shaky relationship with both. One more time: insulting someone else for your own failings, especially if the other person does not in fact possess them, does not absolve you.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:07AM
Context, you say. And, look at you - attempting to psychoanalyze me. Grow up, Azuma, and stop taking yourself so seriously. The context is perfectly apt. The fact that you don't like it, or don't agree with it doesn't change that it applies.