Are the BNP a real threat?
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My one criticism of that article is that none of those groups are seeking power, power with which could be used to enforce racist regimes. They're just organised communities taking on the act of keeping a form of pride in heritage, not political parties with views of how a country should be run.
And don't put too much faith in the public. During and after WW2 people were astonished that normal people could be so heartless to others, until a certain man named Stanley Milgram came along and proved that roughly 65% of average Joes would kill another human being just because a man in a white coat told them to.
I'd also have a look at Zimbardo's Stanford Prison study. Same theme of ordinary people performing atrocious acts for no reason other than that's the role they're given.
I studied this in depth at A-level psycology. It is a facinating study actually, and it contradicts another study so brilliantly, if i can find my paper ill post it up.
Basically zimbardo's study couldn't be seen as legitimate due to the participants knowing it wasn't real, and there were too many variables to consider it truely scientific.
It also contradicts the other studies showing in WWII it was something like less than 30% of all soldiers actually aimed to kill (i cant remember the exact figure). And these people were told by a man in a suit to kill the enemy.
Nice, can we get a ban for a personal attack, seems to be all the rage at the moment.
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