Holocaust Denial, Genocide Denial, Anti-Vaxx, and Covid Minimisation.
Anti-Ukraine positioning often includes a package of other rhetorical stances beloved of those high on Altemeyer's Writ-Wing Authoritarian psychological scale.
Minimising the Holocaust and Genocide in Ukraine is implicit in comparing a vaccine that's saved hundreds-of-millions of lives to the Holocaust.
Equating Covid, a virus that's killed at least 30m humans since 2020 to a vaccine designed to neutralise that virus minimises Covid.
Minimising one genocide (the Holocaust against the Jews, Roma, and other "Othered" groups) leads to minimising the ongoing genocide against Ukrainians.
Many of us try to minimise Covid - this is a natural reaction common to all pandemics for which we have records.
In Medieval times:
"Medieval communities were so afraid of the plague that the word alone was enough to frighten them.
They avoided mentioning it as long as possible and even avoided taking the necessary precautions at the risk of aggravating the effects of the epidemic.
...The entire population shared in this type of blindness.
Their desperate desire to deny the evidence contributed to their search for 'scapegoats'..." (Work From Home; Masks; Vaccines;...)
Only one kind of personality inventory though scapegoats the actual antithesis of the virus.
This Accusation in a Mirror is common in Ruschist Disinfolklore too: Ruschists accuse the victim of the genocidal behaviour the Ruschist is engaging in as a justification for the genocide the Ruschist is engaging in.
We can use as a proxy to identify those High on Altemeyer's Right Wing Authoritarian follower scale anyone who professes one or more of Holocaust Denial; Genocide Denial of Ruschist Genocide in Ukraine; Scapegoating Covid vaccine for the harm Covid does to human populations; and minimising Holocaust, Genocide and Covid.
After WWII the problem of Right Wing Authoritarian followers was identified as THE problem. Charismatic leaders like Putin, Trump and others trigger Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA) followers using Othering rhetoric.
RWAs are highly conventional and want to manifest their belonging to an In Group.
So Disinfolklore works very well on High RWAs when it scapegoats particular groups for threatening to
🔴"Invade" the Inner Realm (MAGA, Brexit England, Ruschia);
⚪️Harm the fertility of the Inner Realm (RWAs see migrants stealing "their" culture, women, and children);
🔵Affect the physical security of the Inner Realm - Migrants or vaccines are scapegoated for deaths and maiming.
Being aware of the dangers High RWAs and their trolls pose to our free societies is crucial. Use any of these stances as proxies for High RWAs and treat them accordingly: Holocaust Denial and/or Genocide on Ukraine Denial and/or anti-vaxx and/or denial of Covid's deadliness.
It's too early to say for sure but also people who suggest Ruschia is not 100% culpable for ecocide and genocide in Ukraine are potentially High Right Wing Authoritarian followers.
It's interesting that the highlight of High Right Wing Authoritarian followers power was Nazi Germany.
And that High Right Wing Authoritarian followers' stances often amount to an undermining of the legal order introduced after WWII to prevent another Holocaust: Refugee Convention, Genocide Convention, social welfare (pensions, free healthcare,...) to equalise opportunity to avoid leaders preying on desperate populations, and Human Rights.
Wilful Blindness to the Holocaust is illegal in Germany, and I hope that soon denial of the genocide in Ukraine will be made unlawful everywhere.
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