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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:08AM (14 children)
Nazis never wanted to fight, they never wanted war. Mr. Hitler did mention in his speeches many times that those who fuel the flames of war will be destroyed themselves. Mr. Hitler tried many times and failed, to end the war with Britain and her friends. The jewish side was too strong in control of Britain, USA etc and they wanted war at any cost to those doing the fighting. Jews became more powerful than ever as a result.
Today those same jews want a third world war. Let us not give it to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:54AM (7 children)
Some claim that if you get sucked into a black hole you will end up in another universe.
Is that what happened to you?
You seem to have missed the invasions of the Rhineland, the Sudetenland, Poland...
...and this was in addition to having provided military support for Franco and his Fascist forces in Spain.
...or do you think that that thing with Chamberlain was something other than a mind game?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:14AM (5 children)
Again, this is why we cannot have white supremacism, White folks are too stupid to be superior, they have very bad culture, music, and cuisine, and they apparently cannot remember history! Just totalen dummkopf, und jeder ein totaler Idiot. Warum sind weiße Leute so dumm? Einige von ihnen waren intelligent, wie Goethe, Hegel, Schelling und Beethoven. Aber danach, echte Idioten.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:12PM (2 children)
Again, this is why we cannot have Greek intellects*, Greeks are too stupid to be superior, they have very bad culture, music, and cuisine, and they apparently cannot remember history! Just totalen dummkopf, und jeder ein totaler Idiot. Warum sind weiße Leute so dumm? Einige von ihnen waren intelligent, wie Goethe, Hegel, Schelling und Beethoven. Aber danach, echte Idioten.
*Except the Spartans. Spartans were pretty smart people.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:24PM (1 child)
Err… shouldn't that last part of the first paragraph have been in Greek rather than German? And certainly Goethe, Hegel, Schelling and Beethoven would need to be replaced with Greeks, too.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @01:05AM
Come, now. Let's at least give the little tyke some points for trying!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:09PM (1 child)
"White folks are too stupid to be superior"
You brought up "superiority" to an otherwise sane topic. Racism should not exist and those causing racial tensions are jews. It is always the jews.
And what makes you think anyone feeling "superior" must be a Nazi German? Can't they be Non-White, Non-Europeans?
Look in the mirror, american, and see a superior terrorist.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday September 18 2017, @01:14AM
American? Who you talking to, Willis?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:52PM
Rhineland was German territory and Hitler put military back where it was supposed to be. Stopped the from French looting his country any more, ended the terrible Treaty of Versailles.
Sudetenland contained Germans and they had to be freed. It was the honorable thing to do. A dishonorable thing would be to leave them at the mercy of whoever had more guns.
Do you remember when Poland was divided between Germany and The Soviet Union? Do you remember when Poland was given assurances of full military support in case of German invasion and as a result the Polish were getting too out of control? The jews wanted war at any cost. They forced France and Britain to declare war on Germany.
Franco... It is legal to make alliances, I'm sure you've heard.
Chamberlain made an agreement because his military generals told him they could not fight a war with Germany and win. Then preparation for war started in britain at full speed immediately afterwards. The british wanted war as soon as possible. How evil is that!!!
Do you remember the British Mandate which gave the world the illegitimate terrorist state of israel? The jews had everything to gain from war and still do, as a matter of fact. All the world fighting and killing each other is in best jewish interest.
Zion Begone!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @01:27PM (5 children)
Correct. They wanted to intimidate everyone into surrendering at the first opportunity. Unfortunately for them, a certain Mr Winston Churchill [wikipedia.org] saw what they were up to and stood up to them while everyone else was too busy looking the other way and making apologies for them.
A few years later people came to their senses and teamed up to help defeat the Nazis.
I hope we don't see a repetition of this particular chapter of history. Let's nip it in the bud.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:30PM (4 children)
Churchill was a War Criminal. Then after the war he is supposed to have uttered these infamous words: "we've slaughtered the wrong pig". What can a normal, thinking, intelligent human make of that thing ... that smelly, filthy animal called churchill?
"A few years later people came to their senses and teamed up to help defeat the Nazis."
Tell that to a world who suffered the consequences of the Nazis being defeated. Millions died, but you couldn't care less. You are the kind of people who brings war to a peaceful world, takes what belongs to others. You must be an American.
Average regular everyday American: "Do they have something we can use? Lets kill them all and take it."
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:47PM (3 children)
What a pathetic attempt at a troll. That deserves a "+1 funny" but I've run out of mod points.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:58PM (2 children)
You are a member of JIDF, I get it now. Avoiding a reply and calling names, etc.
Churchill is still a War Criminal.
America is still a terrorist state.
Anyone who remembers the Cold War knows better than the brainwashed children of today.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:19PM
Is there someone who looks after you? Do they know you're on the computer?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @01:10AM
I remember the Cold War and you are talking complete shit. FOAD, Nazi apologist!!!