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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:52PM
Rhineland was German territory and Hitler put military back where it was supposed to be. Stopped the from French looting his country any more, ended the terrible Treaty of Versailles.
Sudetenland contained Germans and they had to be freed. It was the honorable thing to do. A dishonorable thing would be to leave them at the mercy of whoever had more guns.
Do you remember when Poland was divided between Germany and The Soviet Union? Do you remember when Poland was given assurances of full military support in case of German invasion and as a result the Polish were getting too out of control? The jews wanted war at any cost. They forced France and Britain to declare war on Germany.
Franco... It is legal to make alliances, I'm sure you've heard.
Chamberlain made an agreement because his military generals told him they could not fight a war with Germany and win. Then preparation for war started in britain at full speed immediately afterwards. The british wanted war as soon as possible. How evil is that!!!
Do you remember the British Mandate which gave the world the illegitimate terrorist state of israel? The jews had everything to gain from war and still do, as a matter of fact. All the world fighting and killing each other is in best jewish interest.
Zion Begone!