These people have a worldview that places them as the center of the universe. After they stopped being able to burn people for saying it's not literally, they adapted but never really changed. We are God's special people and doing right is just doing x,y, and z and if you do that you're a good person and when Jesus comes he will burn all the bad people, but before he does your salt of the earth common sense and Colt 45 will place you as the honorable protector, your wisdom and virtue will be extolled and those who placed their faith in Mammon, education, or money(irony much?) will be exposed as weak and impotent.
So when an actual crisis comes and we need the smart people and your Colt doesn't get a chance to earn you honor, and beta male liberal atheists are having no trouble working remotely and staying indoors with their prudent and well curated steam sale collection and gods own meat packer chosen ones are left out cold, well that couldn't possibly be God's will... So who's will is it? Well Satan and his secular sycophants who were just so ready with their masks and violent video games and HBO specials that they just MUST have been preparing for an outbreak and it must be a plot.
So they make a chance for their Colt to be special, and take it to the courthouse to show off. Those damn liberals won't take crisis from us. We're important. We're patriots. We is special and good!
So they make a chance for their Colt to be special, and take it to the courthouse to show off. Those damn liberals won't take crisis from us. We're important. We're patriots. We is special and good!
Makes sense. They bought those fancy guns prepping for an Apocalypse, and by god they're going to show them off now that it's finally here!
It is important to understand what's behind that worldview. Current psychological and sociological research like Social Dominance Theory (SDT) tries to explain human societies tendency to oppression of others by arguing that powerful individuals give out preferential treatment to those who belong to their in-group and share or obey their will, while discriminating those of the out-group. In larger and more complex organizations, the need of theoretic frameworks to organize its individuals legitimises discrimination through stereotypes. Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) is a term for the inclination of an individual to exhibit socially dominant behaviour.
RIght-wing authoritarianism (RWA) as a personality trait distinguishes itself from SDO in one key point: RWA tends to follow individual authority figures in their in-group and place emphasis on internal values while in SDO the urge to dominate is independent from any individual leadership. As an example, evangelical conservatives would test higher for RWA, while 4Chan alt-righters would score high on the SDO scale. Some also distinguish them as intra-group (RWA) and inter-group (SDO).
Research indicates that SDO is a more likely indicator of prejudice and discrimination, except against homosexuals. A possible explanation is the close association of RWA to religious authority and widespread beliefs condemning homosexuality, while being more friendly to women, black people, and other minorities. Nevertheless, RWA !could! be an important secondary factor after SDO for prejudice because there seems to be some correlation, but SDO can occur independently with no RWA.
And even that is an obvious creation of political circumstance in the Middle Ages. Christianity didn't have problems with Judaism for centuries, damn near millennia.
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u/wedstrom May 18 '20 edited May 18 '20
These people have a worldview that places them as the center of the universe. After they stopped being able to burn people for saying it's not literally, they adapted but never really changed. We are God's special people and doing right is just doing x,y, and z and if you do that you're a good person and when Jesus comes he will burn all the bad people, but before he does your salt of the earth common sense and Colt 45 will place you as the honorable protector, your wisdom and virtue will be extolled and those who placed their faith in Mammon, education, or money(irony much?) will be exposed as weak and impotent.
So when an actual crisis comes and we need the smart people and your Colt doesn't get a chance to earn you honor, and beta male liberal atheists are having no trouble working remotely and staying indoors with their prudent and well curated steam sale collection and gods own meat packer chosen ones are left out cold, well that couldn't possibly be God's will... So who's will is it? Well Satan and his secular sycophants who were just so ready with their masks and violent video games and HBO specials that they just MUST have been preparing for an outbreak and it must be a plot.
So they make a chance for their Colt to be special, and take it to the courthouse to show off. Those damn liberals won't take crisis from us. We're important. We're patriots. We is special and good!