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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:10AM (1 child)
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.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @01:36PM
King Worm [independent.co.uk].
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].