Traits shared across high and low prejudice scorers reveal potential fascism in culture itself.

Evidence

If a trend that differentiates statistically between high and low scorers on Ethe highs' being higher on itappears very commonly in the interviews of all subjects, then we must conclude that it is a trend in culture itself. . . The evidence that they are potentially fascistic is the fact that they go’ statistically, psychologically, and in every other respect with high scale scores; if they also occur with considerable frequency in interviews of low scorers it must be because we are living in potentially fascist times. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 445

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The methodological inversion — measuring culture, not individuals, by what persists across every score range — resists easy summary and reorients what the Berkeley study was even doing.
• DEFINE: Defines ‘potentially fascist times’ as a property of a culture, not of a personality type.
• XREF: connects to: Imagined cruelty in literature mirrors fascism’s actual domination of humans. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 90; An underlying psychological structure, not stated opinions, determines fascist potential. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 439; Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Imagined cruelty in literature mirrors fascism’s actual domination of humans. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 90; An underlying psychological structure, not stated opinions, determines fascist potential. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 439; Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421 (+4 more)