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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: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:14AM (5 children)
Again, this is why we cannot have white supremacism, White folks are too stupid to be superior, they have very bad culture, music, and cuisine, and they apparently cannot remember history! Just totalen dummkopf, und jeder ein totaler Idiot. Warum sind weiße Leute so dumm? Einige von ihnen waren intelligent, wie Goethe, Hegel, Schelling und Beethoven. Aber danach, echte Idioten.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:12PM (2 children)
Again, this is why we cannot have Greek intellects*, Greeks are too stupid to be superior, they have very bad culture, music, and cuisine, and they apparently cannot remember history! Just totalen dummkopf, und jeder ein totaler Idiot. Warum sind weiße Leute so dumm? Einige von ihnen waren intelligent, wie Goethe, Hegel, Schelling und Beethoven. Aber danach, echte Idioten.
*Except the Spartans. Spartans were pretty smart people.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:24PM (1 child)
Err… shouldn't that last part of the first paragraph have been in Greek rather than German? And certainly Goethe, Hegel, Schelling and Beethoven would need to be replaced with Greeks, too.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @01:05AM
Come, now. Let's at least give the little tyke some points for trying!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:09PM (1 child)
"White folks are too stupid to be superior"
You brought up "superiority" to an otherwise sane topic. Racism should not exist and those causing racial tensions are jews. It is always the jews.
And what makes you think anyone feeling "superior" must be a Nazi German? Can't they be Non-White, Non-Europeans?
Look in the mirror, american, and see a superior terrorist.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday September 18 2017, @01:14AM
American? Who you talking to, Willis?