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She may never be the same. This past weekend we learned about an incident from May when three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool, a mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old. Mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab. Which infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-...

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Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tom-nicholas-how-to-spot-a-potential-fascist An introduction to The Authoritarian Personality study. Timestamps: 0:00 Fascisticus Potentialicus 01:51 Introduction 05:07 Defining Fascism / Ur-Fascism 07:03 Antisemitism and Ethnocentrism 11:31 Fascism, Conservatism and Religion 16:09 The Authoritarian Personality 23:18 Conclusions This month's episode of What the Theory? is an introduction to the Authoritarian Personality study, carried out by T.W. Adorno (a key member of the "Frankfurt School" and central force in the development of Critical Theory), Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. Following the end of World War 2, these four psychologists were interested in finding out what had motivated so many supposedly ordinary citizens in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) to participate in the awful designs of the fascist regimes that had taken hold there. Eventually, they laid out what they called The Authoritarian Personality, a set of personality traits which they argued might make some people more susceptible to fascist ideology than others. This is what they found out... Support the channel on Patreon at http://patreon.com/tomnicholas If you've enjoyed this video and would like to see more including my What The Theory? series in which I provide some snappy introductions to key theories in the humanities as well as video essays and more then do consider subscribing. Thanks for watching! Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com/ #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FrankfurtSchool

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Many on the left were pointing out that the Democratic Party was dangerous, due to their mendacity and hollow promises. The voicing of this concern was not to enhance the reactionary right but to save any shreds that could keep fascism at bay. The concern was that we would land exactly where we are, whether in this election cycle or the next. It could have happened after any neo-liberal administration, and the left was warning of this very salient fact. A

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https://linktr.ee/refusefascism RefuseFascism.org RefuseFascism.org welcomes all who share our determination to refuse to accept a fascist America, those who recognize that while out of power the fascist threat is not gone and can only begin to be addressed through society-wide repudiation by the people. RefuseFascism.org welcomes individuals and organizations from many different points of view who share our determination to refuse to accept a fascist America, to join and/or partner with us in this great cause. @RefuseFascism Venmo: Refuse-Fascism

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