Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views

  • @[email protected]
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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.

        • @morphballganon
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          103 months ago

          My reading is that we all have the capacity for enabling authoritarianism if we’re not careful.

  • Funderpants
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    303 months ago

    Provocative headline, good read.

    On a less serious note, does the small Nazi in us have an even smaller Nazi inside them?

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    253 months ago

    Not 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.

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    213 months ago

    I 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Wasn’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.

  • Maeve
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    203 months ago

    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.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      143 months ago

      As 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.

      • Atelopus-zeteki
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        23 months ago

        I’mma guess the answer to your question, is no, Friend TimeSquirrel. Get on wit’ yo’ Bad Self!

        Edit: My assessment is that your anger is righteous, so that’s why I encouraged you to continue as you are. Peace.

        • Maeve
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          Reactive abuse is still abuse. That’s not saying don’t defend ourselves. It is saying it’s fine to remove myself and not seek to justify my behavior in becoming that which I found abhorrent. It happens. It’s a l long journey of healing, before I could even about that to myself. Looking at ourselves need not be distorted for better or worse. I can only correct my behavior by hm, to borrow a 12 step phrase, “fearless and searching moral inventory.” No justifications, no excuses. The abyss does indeed look back.

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      23 months ago

      I don’t understand why people think that human and monster are mutually exclusive categories.

      • Maeve
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        13 months ago

        It’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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    73 months ago

    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.

  • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ
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    33 months ago

    But 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

    ~AJJ