Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling

[lunasun]

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/15/16144070/psychology-alt-right-unite-the-right

The survey also asked participants to state how often they engaged in aggressive behaviors, like doxxing, the releasing of private information without a person’s permission. They also asked about how often respondents physically threatened another online, or made offensive statements just to get a rise out of people.

Here, too, the alt-righters were much more likely to admit to engaging in these behaviors.
“In the comparison sample, people basically never did those things, or reported [doing them],” Forscher says. But it wasn’t like the alt-righters were uniformly admitting to these behaviors.
“We found evidence that there’s a much more extreme group of [alt-right] people who are reporting harassing and being offensive intentionally,” he says. He calls them “supremacists.”


Among the measures where the alt-right and comparison groups don’t look much different in the survey results is closeness and relationships with other people. The alt-righters reported having about equal levels of close friends, which means these aren’t necessarily isolated, lonely people. They’re members of a community.

Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.

[sagesnow]

1. Gangstas gotta

do what gangstas gotta do.

[smirkymonkey]

2. We even have a name for them.

We call them "assholes".

[Historic NY]

3. ....

[weissmam]

4. or people that have

small winky dink complex

[Purrfessor]

6. Altholes!

[lunasun]

10. I like that term

[WhiteTara]

11. that's very good.

If you don't mind, I think I'll just lift that on out of here!

[blueseas]

9. +100

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. So I guess

that they really aren't very "economically anxious"?

[unblock]

7. right-wing social enforcers. same kind of people who start lynch mobs

[PatrickforO]

8. To them, we Democrats are subhuman, having only scored 60

on that evolutionary level slider scale.

That's pretty scary, and it pisses me off. Who are these nazi fucks to say I am subhuman in some way. We need to roll over these people in November and put policies and laws in place that drive these disgusting worms back under their slimy rocks where they belong. My dad fought these assholes in WWII. Seriously, he'd be spinning in his grave if we hadn't cremated his body.