Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling.

[Xolodno]

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/15/16144070/psychology-alt-right

The white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend were not ashamed when they shouted, “Jews will not replace us.” They were not ashamed to wear Nazi symbols, to carry torches, to harass and beat counterprotesters. They wanted their beliefs on display.

It’s easy to treat people like them as straw men: one-dimensional, backward beings fueled by hatred and ignorance. But if we want to prevent the spread of extremist, supremacist views, we need to understand how these views form and why they stick in the minds of some people.

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On average, alt-righters saw other groups as hunched-over proto-humans.

On average, they rated Muslims at a 55.4 (again, out of 100), Democrats at 60.4, black people at 64.7, Mexicans at 67.7, journalists at 58.6, Jews at 73, and feminists at 57. These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey. And what about white people? They were scored at a noble 91.8.



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[ProudLib72]

1. That's ok

Most of us think of the Nazis as subhuman.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. I knew a neo-Nazi back in college in the 60s.

Basically, he was a sadistic sociopath who liked to inflict pain on others. He used the Nazi movement as a way to legitimize his ugly cruelty. I guess he felt that if others had done in the past what he wanted to do, then it must "legitimate" to do so.

I hung out with him once, when we first shared a class, and I didn't really know him yet. That was a frightening hour or so, and I made every effort to avoid ever running into him again, including dropping that class and signing up for a different one in that time slot.