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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 Monday September 18 2017, @08:35PM (3 children)
That's an admission of defeat. "Hurr hurr NO U!" didn't work in second grade and doesn't work now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 19 2017, @01:29PM (2 children)
I suppose that's a "whoosh". The quote wasn't from a second grade classroom - it was from Jesus. Think about it . . .
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:23PM (1 child)
And hey, guess what? When Jesus used it, he had a right to. When you used it just now...you didn't. There's this thing called context, and this other thing called external reality, and you seem to have a very shaky relationship with both. One more time: insulting someone else for your own failings, especially if the other person does not in fact possess them, does not absolve you.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:07AM
Context, you say. And, look at you - attempting to psychoanalyze me. Grow up, Azuma, and stop taking yourself so seriously. The context is perfectly apt. The fact that you don't like it, or don't agree with it doesn't change that it applies.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!