We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism
We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
36Wish there was a man inside me 😔
8Aaah, Dr. Fünke, the world's first analrapist.
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Provocative headline, good read.
On a less serious note, does the small Nazi in us have an even smaller Nazi inside them?
30Scary to think that it could be Nazis all the way down.
17Maybe it starts, with a nod to xiouxiou, by polishing the mirror until there is no mirror for the motes to land?
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8When the smaller nazi inside the small nazi gets bigger than the small nazi is when the nazi takes over.
6The small nazi phenomena can be modelled by a perturbative expansion
N = 1 + a1 + a2 + a3 + ...
As long as the relative smaller nazi size, represented by 'a', is smaller than one the series converges and you are not a nazi. When 'a' is larger than one, the smaller nazi in the small nazis is actually bigger, e.g. a2 > a, and you are in the nonperturbative regime of the small nazi model, and you'd be called a "full blown nazi". AdS/CFT postulates you can model the nonperturbative regime with a tankie-description, but the theory is controversial.
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Like a nesting doll. A Nazting doll.
6No. They’ve got a really nice and chill leftist who just wants to help everyone that they’re repressing.
But that leftist, they’ve got an even smaller nazi inside of them.
4There's a good Nazi and a bad Nazi within you. Only feed the gutenazi
3It's Nazis all the way down.
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No we fucking don't all have a nazi in us. We all have a thing (fear response) that nazis and other authoritarian propaganda love to take advantage of.
I know that the person who said this was trying to get that point across, but decided to go for shock value over clarity.
26Not too new of a concept, "Kill the cop in your head" has been a common phrase among the left since the mid 90s and possibly originates from the late 60s.
24I read once that Holocaust research causes three distinct traumas. One is where you realize that it really happened to real people. Two is when you empathize with the victims and can visualize yourself of loved ones in that position. Three is when you empathize with the perpetrators and can visualize yourself or loved ones in that position.
It's natural for children to believe that good people do good things and bad do bad, but that opinion can't survive into adulthood without profound lack of self awareness.
20Wasn't the gas chambers planned because German soldiers kept going crazy executing people directly. Even if you're trained and brainwashed shooting a child in the back of the head is gonna mess you up (especially more than once). Dehumanising the victims, putting them into work camps, moving them to a room where the overseer can flip a switch. It was all to make you see them as less than human and make it easier to not connect the act of killing them to taking a life. Of course there were a whole lot of absolutely f*cked up monsters but I feel really bad for all the nazis who got sucked into a brainwashed cult and by the time they realised what they were doing they had no out left.
5Fucked up. Humans.
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I noticed something for the first time, likely due to social conditioning that I'd missed it before: we have to stop dehumanization when speaking of large and small scale humans. They are not monsters, they are humans, like us. Perhaps if they'd been treated in s humane way, they would have enjoyed some happy coincidence of nature and nurture and not gone on to such egregious acts. "In the beginning was the word," and abuse starts with thoughts, progresses to belittling, dehumanization and then physical abuse.
11As someone on the spectrum, I've been ostracized, humiliated, and dehumanized all my life, yet I did not become a Nazi. It only made me angrier at the people who want to put their boots on your neck.
13I don't understand why people think that human and monster are mutually exclusive categories.
1It's dehumanizing. Most of so-called monsters are made, and with proper social and holistic treatment could be rehabilitated and reintegrated. But it's work, and perhaps more importantly, money from the coffers of those with far more wealth than a hundred generations could ever meaningfully use.
Power gives people the freedom to act as they choose, and they choose a lot of nastiness. Does it not make sense that unconstrained choices represent who a person truly is?
Perhaps who they have become. What if these people had loving, supportive homes? Why can't we utilize* their wealth for everyone who doesn't or hasn't had, including them? What if we reimagine re-education as therapy, and education about their own trauma reactions and redirected them to healthier thinking and behaviors, for as long as it takes? Maybe some are too far gone. Are they not human beings deserving of humans care?
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Inside you there are two Nazis.
One of the Nazis hates the other Nazi. The other Nazi hates the first Nazi. They both hate you and want you to make other people's Nazis bigger.
5But there's a bad man in everyone, no matter who we are
There's a rapist and a Nazi living in our tiny hearts
Child pornographers and cannibals, and politicians too
There's someone in your head waiting to fucking strangle you
3Fuck you we do, let's take this guy and put em in a gas chamber!
2Okay I was mixing Gabor mate up with someone else never mind
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