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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, @02:41PM
You don't need to be white to be a Nazi. Look at Mugabe and their movement in Zimbabwe.
Also congrats, you are a Nazi, or at very least racist/bigot. Maybe you should realize a few things
1. we have one stinking planet
2. we are all human
3. differences between different "groups" are smaller than differences within these "groups" -- it almost doesn't matter how you define the group.
4. and now, we are rapidly approaching one culture world.
It is self-harm on societal level to treat others as "different".
Not sure about leftist. More centrist. But then again, centrist is the enemy of the Nazis and the Commies. Both want to divide society into groups which results in chaos and war. Perfect examples would be Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. And these days, Hungary, Russia and now US.
Anyway, in the "good old days" all the women were the underclass too. And white men without land were underclass before that. And every fucking step of the way to have equal rights for everyone, there were idiots in these underclasses that were arguing against it. Every fucking step of the way. So it is not surprising that bigots remain. And will continue to remain and continue to try to destroy the society they live in because of their god-complex.
Zimbabwe, prime example. Today's Israel, another example. You don't need to be white to be a Nazi, a racist, or a bigot.