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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:35PM (4 children)
Uh, wow. Thanks. That actually gives me a lot of insight into your specific issues. I'll be analyzing this for a bit longer. I honestly wasn't expecting that amount of soul-baring from you.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 18 2017, @05:48AM (3 children)
ROFLMAO - I may just adopt you for your entertainment value. You won't mind staying in a separate little house in the back yard, will you? Unless you're abusive toward her, Rags will keep you company while you make silly posts on the internet. Rags loves silly people.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 18 2017, @04:50PM (2 children)
You're...really not helping your case here. Step back and look at the contents of your posts; most sane people looking at them are going to see "Guy getting badly savaged and resorting to weird, slightly creepy-uncle-ish insults to try and get his own back." You make yourself look worse with your own posts than anything I could possibly say to or about you does.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 18 2017, @05:04PM (1 child)
MOST people don't see things the same way that EITHER you or I see them. Don't presume to speak for most people. A couple posts back you were amusing. Now you're getting boorish again.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 18 2017, @08:24PM
Oh, sorry, am I intruding on your stock in trade? You lecturing me about boorishness is a little bit like David Duke telling people to lay off the racism...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...