On the Stanley Milgram Experiment (Warning: The video may not be for the faint of heart)
For @my-very-own-opinion , who I had a discussion with earlier on where the fuck do these SJWs/Radfems come from.
Before I had mentioned that a good chunk of it is that college acts as an indoctrination tool - drip feeding and slowly pushing our best and brightest towards an inevitable extremist standpoint.
That probably sounds like I have a tinfoil hat. But here’s something to think about.
Remember Hitler? And the Nazis? To think that could happen today would also have you wearing a tinfoil hat. …except not much has changed since then.
Believe it or not, each and every single person who reads this is capable, under certain learning conditions, to do exactly what they’re fighting against.
I bring you the Milgram Experiment.
It is a very oft-talked about piece of Psychology research which was conducted by a Yale University Psychologist, Stanley Milgram - only three months after the start of a Nazi war criminal in Jerusalem.
The parties in the experiment were as follows:
- the researcher
- the subject/teacher
- the “confederate” (basically means an “actor” in an experiment - the subject is not aware of this and assumes the confederate is just another subject).
The subject and confederate drew slips of paper to determine who would be “teacher”. Unbeknownst to the subject, all slips of paper said teacher. The confederate would always be the learner. The two were separated into different rooms, and the researcher accompanied the subject. The confederate would also make mention that he had a heart condition. Keep that in mind.
The subject was given control over an electroshock generator - and also a small sample of what that shock felt like. This shock was supposedly given to the confederate. The subject was then instructed to read a list of word pairs to teach the learner.
The learner would press a button to indicate his or her response. Upon getting it wrong, the teacher was to administer a shock to the learner. And the voltage was to increase by 15 volts for each wrong answer.
The confederate acted as if they were actually being shocked - which includes screams of pain, head banging, and cries of LET ME OUT as the test progressed. Remember that the confederate supposedly has a heart condition - which he would heartily remind the subject of (pun fully intended.)
Some subjects questioned the experiment at around 135 volts. At this point, the researcher would give these urgings in order:
- Please continue.
- The experiment requires that you continue.
- It is absolutely essential that you continue.
- You have no other choice, you must go on.
If the subject STILL wished to stop after all four prods were used up, the experiment was concluded. Otherwise it was halted after the “maximum voltage” of 450 volts was administered three times.
How many people you think actually managed to stop?
While the percentage varies from study to study, the average has not decreased overall - In approximately 2000, the study was reviewed again. On average, the amount of subjects that give the fatal volt amount? ~60%.
If an authority figure gives you a command and assures you it’s not gonna hurt anybody, which are you truly going to trust? Your ethics? Or the command? I mean after all, no “permanent damage is being done.” …despite the heart problem. And the 450 fucking volts. And the screams. And the banging.
I’m gonna be honest, I’d be cursing myself all the way, but I think I would do it while praying to the powers that be for forgiveness. Either that or shoot myself. One or the other.
What did this have to do with SJWs? Well, think of one’s college professors as the researcher (except not in an experiment setting). Think of the confederates as those who are being demonized. Think of your concerns over ethics as the subject questioning the experimenter. And think of the experimenter’s reassurances as fake ass pseudoscience articles and op-ed pieces talking about how it’s okay to be racist against white people.
Suddenly, the existence of them doesn’t seem so impossible.