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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:40PM
Same here.
The problem with the quiz is that it's designed in such a way that nearly every person who takes it will get the result that they are not a bogeyman.
Nearly every person (who is not a sociopath) desires fairness. What's happening is that the working class is no better off than they were 40 years ago. Sure, there's tons of shiny electronics these days (all DRMed to hell), but fundamentally nothing has changed. If anything, money is tighter these days for the working class than any time in recent memory.
The trouble is that the media is conditioning the working class with a racial narrative. Working class people who are black blame the whites. Working class people who are white blame the blacks. Etc. It's a narrative specifically engineered to turn the working class against itself.
They don't want the working class to figure out that the problem isn't Muslims or Christians or whites or blacks. The problem the working class has is that they've all become convinced that they shouldn't collectively bargain. They vote for an R or D team that seem to support the same policies. And the 1%ers are turning them into slaves.