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Why Are There Still Nazis? These Eight Questions Can Help Explain.

posted by mrpg on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:10PM   
from the what-y'all-love-social-sciences dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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Original Submission

• AA needs to be amendedAA needs to be amended (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:56PM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:56PM (#569151)

  AA was necessary in its time, but today, it benefits the society's upper crust who happens to be black, rather than the disadvantaged ones. And it breeds racial animosity - why doesn't kids from appalachian white trash background deserve a little help just like the inner-city black kids, rather than kids from well-off minority families?

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• Re:AA needs to be amendedRe:AA needs to be amended (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:11PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:11PM (#569162)

  wat

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  • AA == "Affirmative Action"AA == "Affirmative Action" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:14PM (#569165)

    See text.

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    • Re:AA == "Affirmative Action"(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:20AM (#569201)

      Ah, thanks. Makes much more sense now. I take my "wat" back.

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• Re:AA needs to be amended(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @12:37AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @12:37AM (#569546)

  And it breeds racial animosity - why doesn't kids from appalachian white trash background deserve a little help just like the inner-city black kids, rather than kids from well-off minority families?

  Once or twice a year I get something in the mail asking for donations to some Appalachian college; I can't find anything on the intertubes about it right now but if my (possibly faulty) memory serves, this college will accept any qualified Appalachian kid, regardless of their ability to pay. I wish I could find the info on it. I'm sure you would be eager to make a donation!

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