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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: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 17 2017, @02:53AM (11 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 17 2017, @02:53AM (#569239) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 17 2017, @05:44AM (10 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 17 2017, @05:44AM (#569287) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:35AM (9 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:35AM (#569310) Journal

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:06AM (#569354)

        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)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:32PM (#569525) Journal

        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.

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        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 18 2017, @05:49AM (6 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 18 2017, @05:49AM (#569635) Journal

          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)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 18 2017, @04:48PM (#569799) Journal

            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.

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            • (Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 18 2017, @05:05PM (4 children)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 18 2017, @05:05PM (#569811) Journal

              Physician, heal thyself.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 18 2017, @08:35PM (3 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 18 2017, @08:35PM (#569911) Journal

                That's an admission of defeat. "Hurr hurr NO U!" didn't work in second grade and doesn't work now.

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                • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 19 2017, @01:29PM (2 children)

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 19 2017, @01:29PM (#570174) Journal

                  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)

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:23PM (#570244) Journal

                    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.

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                    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:07AM

                      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:07AM (#570469) Journal

                      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.