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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: 3, Insightful) by number11 on Sunday September 17 2017, @05:35AM
Exactly right. There was destruction, but not by BLM. You don't think that all blacks are BLM members, do you? There were a lot of pissed off people who'd been getting screwed for years, and who saw that cops would cover for each other, and governments and courts would cover for them, regardless of what they had done. (Now, I'm not saying that that was necessarily a correct view, but that's what a lot of people saw.)
Nah. The only right wing conspiracy is to pretend that cops can do no wrong (or that, if they do, the consequences to them are the same as the consequences would be to you or me). I wouldn't call BLM particularly leftist, either (race is kinda orthogonal to politics, if you're not a racist). BLM is mostly concerned with the fact that cops kill black people pretty much with impunity. We still have to see if the case in Minnesota where a black cop killed a white woman is treated the same. (It might be, in which case All Lives Matter, though your odds are a lot worse if you're black.)