Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a personality and ideological variable studied in political, social and personality psychology. Right-wing authoritarians are people who have a high degree of willingness to submit to authorities they perceive as established and legitimate, who adhere to societal conventions and norms and who are hostile and punitive in their attitudes towards people who do not adhere to them. They value uniformity and are in favour of using group authority, including coercion, to achieve it.
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Right-wing authoritarians want society and social interactions structured in ways that increase uniformity and minimize diversity. In order to achieve that, they tend to be in favour of social control, coercion and the use of group authority to place constraints on the behaviours of people such as political dissidents and ethnic minorities. These constraints might include restrictions on immigration, limits on free speech and association and laws regulating moral behaviour. It is the willingness to support or take action that leads to increased social uniformity that makes right-wing authoritarianism more than just a personal distaste for difference. Right-wing authoritarianism is characterized by obedience to authority, moral absolutism, racial and ethnic prejudice and intolerance and punitiveness towards dissidents and deviants. In parenting, right-wing authoritarians value children's obedience, neatness and good manners.[1]
Right-wing authoritarianism is defined by three attitudinal and behavioral clusters which correlate together:[14][15]
Authoritarian submission — a high degree of submissiveness to the authorities who are perceived to be established and legitimate in the society in which one lives.
Authoritarian aggression — a general aggressiveness directed against deviants, outgroups and other people that are perceived to be targets according to established authorities.
Conventionalism — a high degree of adherence to the traditions and social norms that are perceived to be endorsed by society and its established authorities and a belief that others in one's society should also be required to adhere to these norms.[16]
The terminology of "authoritarianism", "right-wing authoritarianism" and "authoritarian personality" tend to be used interchangeably by psychologists, though inclusion of the term "personality" may indicate a psychodynamic interpretation consistent with the original formulation of the theory. — Wiki
I don't think I need to spell out the fact that nationalism goes hand in hand with authoritarianism. — Posty McPostface
Well now that, that implicit assumption that I have held has been expressed and open to criticism and examination, I'm not that sure it be true anymore. So, I seem to be at fault in assuming so. — Posty McPostface
"Japan" — tom
But essentially, the only purpose of nationalism is to ensure the nation's head authority. — Akanthinos
What if the nation is a republic? — frank
in all cases nationalism's purpose is to make you unable or unwilling to question the wisdom behind it. — Akanthinos
White nationalism is a type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which holds the belief that white people are a race and seeks to develop and maintain a white national identity. Its proponents identify with and are attached to the concept of a white nation. White nationalists say they seek to ensure the survival of the white race, and the cultures of historically white states. They hold that white people should maintain their majority in majority-white countries, maintain their political and economic dominance, and that their cultures should be foremost. Many white nationalists believe that miscegenation, multiculturalism, immigration of nonwhites and low birth rates among whites are threatening the white race, and some argue that it amounts to white genocide.
White nationalism is sometimes described as a euphemism for, or subset of, white supremacy, and the two have been used interchangeably by journalists and other analysts. White nationalist groups espouse white separatism and white supremacy. White separatism is the pursuit of a "white-only state"; supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to nonwhites, taking ideas from social Darwinism and Nazism.] White nationalists generally avoid the term "supremacy" because it has negative connotations.
Bona fide racism saw a massive decline in the west between the 60's and the turn of the millennium, but just as we were about to turn an important corner of intellectual maturation, the internet happened. The recruitment and organizational capacity of social media, in my opinion, saved the white nationalist "movement", along with saving and birthing many other emotionally founded movements which function as mutual fuel for each other's bonfires. — VagabondSpectre
It could be that in some cases this is true, but there are also cases where nationalism wells up from grass roots. It's apt to be a response to a social illness, but I think some societies are just more nationalistic at baseline. Both the US and Britain are.I'll try again.
Nationalism's purpose is to make you unable or unwilling to question the wisdom behind the choices made by your government.
In other words, nationalism makes you believe that being a traitor is necessarily a wrong thing. There is nothing, however, which guarantees that betraying your nation is not going to be the morally right choice in any event.
As such, it's a fallacy. — Akanthinos
Couldn't it be that the internet facilitated a pendulum swing that was going to happen anyway? Or no, the technology exacerbated an underlying feature of the culture. — frank
BTW, your history of the American Civil War isn't exactly right. The real sequence of events was ten times more bizarre than that. — frank
Whether it magnified or amplified, distilled or quickened, concealed or revealed, the contemporary result is the same: a new wave of white nationalism flowing mainly through the cultural canal of the internet. The internet represents a change in the landscape and transportation of ideas and culture, and for various reasons extreme ideologies are finding niches to fill within the new landscape.
White nationalism as you might hear it bandied today was reborn in one of the internet's many facets. — VagabondSpectre
Well I did elect to leave a few things out, heh, but did I get any of my dates wrong? I was pulling rather quickly from memory so do let me know if I've bungled something up. — VagabondSpectre
I don't know if Canada is or not. Is it? — frank
They're awesome. — frank
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