Post #3481161
2026-06-29 22:32 UTC
Sneaking it under the wire for Pride Month
A subtler reason visibility besides helping those in the closet: it defeats the opposition in ways that are also invisible
And I want to talk about that
Canadian Sociologist Dr. Bob Altmeyer spent his career working on theories from the Frankfurt School, who were trying to understand why the Axis atrocities against humanity had such broad support in their home countries
They settled on an analysis of factors of personality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality
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@jhwgh1968@chaos.social 2026-06-29 22:35
While much criticism has occurred of the thesis in recent years, Dr. Bob Altmeyer attempted to refine it into something subtler and add statistical reliability (though validity seems weaker to me) He even wrote a lay book that was a huge hit in 2010s online lefty spaces: https://theauthoritarians.org/ But rather than go over that in detail, I want to cherry-pick one aspect I very much see in real life, in media, and in many places everywhere just below the surface The effect of visibility on them