06-07-2017, 12:13 PM
(06-07-2017, 12:03 PM)Dill Wrote: Since WWII, there have been a number of studies of the AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY that explain the behavior you describe. The attackers cast themselves as victims fighting back. Often people are under "attack" by something--e.g. feeling the pressure of wage or job losses which diminish their status. Because they think in black and white terms, with no emotional distance from what they are analyzing, their anger and (sometimes real) pain can be redirected away from the real cause to other objects. This does not require an eloquent leader, but that certainly helps.
You mean like the students at Evergreen college or the antifa guy who hits people with a bike lock?
Quote:In the segregated South, recessions often triggered an outbreak of lynchings; Nazi literature is rife with stories of Aryans under economic control of "the Jew"; North Korean leaders regularly blame the US for their bad policy choices, making the US directly responsible for their starvation and low standing in the world.
Very true. What section of the planet can we find similar behavior occurring right now?
Quote:Note that in every one of the aforementioned examples, there is an issue of racial or cultural purity at stake as well as security.
I can think of a current and ongoing example in which religion is the motivation. However, some people they don't see that as a problem.
