Comments by "Jim Mcneal" (@jimmcneal5292) on "The Third Wave Experiment Explained | The Study That Proves We Were All Born Evil" video.

  1. Cringy professor and cringy parallels. Firstly, there wasn't fascism in Third Reich, there was nazism, a version of national-socialism. Fascism was in Italy(and it was more of a fuse between sindicalism and civic nationalism, while nazism had ethnic component). Secondly, there was a historical context for resentiment in germans — they were defeated in WW1, some territories with german population were annexated and, most importantly, germany was forced to pay insane reparations to its former enemies. This bitterness was the main reason nazism had such an irrational form. Thirdly, "nationalist-"(ethnic) part was absolutely natural — all healthy societies/groups try to keep together on the ethnic basis. At the same time students in the experiment basically had nothing in common except for a leader and a made up on a common symbol sense of unity. This dynamic rather resembles left-wing ideologies, which usually are extremely collectivist and try to unite people on superficial reasons, usually stating that they are for everything that is "good" and against everything that is "evil". Fourthly, nationalism(especially ethnic) absolutely doesn't automatically mean totalitarian/authoritarian form of government, while left-wing ideologies almost always lead to concentration of power.
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