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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, @06:52AM
It is easier to control people when they are fighting each other instead of coming together and realizing who is really in control. None of the groups doing the fighting are part of the ruling class.
Divisions are created (skin color, political orientation, ...) just because they can. People are told to belong to a group whether they want to or not. And to die for that group's ideologies (which were dictated by the ruling class) whether the people want to or not.
There are differences in peoples and that is a good thing. Don't hate others. Love yourself more.
About the article:
The "social dominance orientation quiz" proves nothing (as has been said before) and was hatched by someone with an agenda. The gutter press was then instructed to market it far and wide.
And by the way, today's "Neo"-Nazis are nothing more than CIA people creating divisions, like this one (and his group):
Christopher Cantwell [thewrap.com]