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Why Are There Still Nazis? These Eight Questions Can Help Explain.

posted by mrpg on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:10PM   
from the what-y'all-love-social-sciences dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:''I moved Sanders and Hitler rightwise'' Re:''I moved Sanders and Hitler rightwise'' (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday September 17 2017, @09:33AM (1 child)

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday September 17 2017, @09:33AM (#569328) Homepage

  I'd say that if someone was speaking in absolutes such as that, then he should be nuzzled up ver close to the very left margin of the chart. How could things be any more left than that? The coudn't, therefore that is the extremum of the left axis.

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• ''he should be...[very] close to the...left [edge] (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:21PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:21PM (#569465)

  I'm not seeing where we disagree.
  ...unless "he" is Bernie.

  The farthest "Left" that Bernie goes is advocating tax breaks for ESOPs.
  ...which isn't anything like Italy's very successful Marcora Law. [google.com]

  N.B. An Employee Stock Ownership Plan is still Capitalism: 1 share==1 vote; not 1 worker==1 vote.
  ...though, to their credit, the ESOP that Publix supermarkets has is very good about -only- employees being able to own its stock.

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