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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 turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:47PM (3 children)
What a pathetic attempt at a troll. That deserves a "+1 funny" but I've run out of mod points.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:58PM (2 children)
You are a member of JIDF, I get it now. Avoiding a reply and calling names, etc.
Churchill is still a War Criminal.
America is still a terrorist state.
Anyone who remembers the Cold War knows better than the brainwashed children of today.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @04:19PM
Is there someone who looks after you? Do they know you're on the computer?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @01:10AM
I remember the Cold War and you are talking complete shit. FOAD, Nazi apologist!!!