EXT time you meet

Someone who hates the
Jews, Negroes or other ra-
Cial groups

watch out!
Such people are not only a

plan

menace politically. They are
also mentally dangerous. In

English, the person

who has strong racial preju-
dices is on the verge of go-
ing crazy.

This is the finding of the
two leading’ American psy-
chologists, Doctors E. Fren-
_ kel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt
of the University of Califor-
fia. It is mot an opinion.
These experts have just fin-
ished a radically new kind of
scientific experiment which

has revealed facts of great

interest to all progressives.

A great many adults were
examined by Dr. Frenkel-
ligent students. Other groups

Brunswik. Some were intel-
included business men, aver-

termine

Blamed faults on others
ESULTS were astonish-

ing. The people who
scored highest

Dr. Frenkel - Brunswik
found also that these dan-
gerous ‘people often  dis-
guised their mental weal
ness by arrogant, bold te

havior. And they all used

Tace prejudices as a kind of

outlet for the seething men-
tal

conflict tearing them
apart from within. ;
Dr. Sanford’s research” in-
cluded a fascinating, detaij-
ed case history of an Ameri
can who went Over to the
enemy during the war. This
is the first scientific study
ef a quisling. It brought te
light the fact that this traitor
Was a mental case who vi-
ciously hated the Jews and
his own mother. Incidental-
ly, he hated his mother not
because of any bad qualities
but because she was frail
woman who had desperately
tried to hold out against the

cruelties of a brutal husband.

There are several conclu-
sions a working-class scien-
tist can draw from these re-
Searches. Research has at

long last verified what all

anti-fascists have been vig-

orously maintaining

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sy

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ever
since the rise of Mussolini
Some 25 years ago: the race-

haters and those who adyo-

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cate violence to stop progres-

cies.

Sive movements are mental
Cas€s with criminal tenden-

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Fascist tendencies:
An enemy

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_ CARTER

HE psychologists make
a Serious error in stress-
has

ing the “unconscious” nature
read Nazi

of fascist tendencies. There is

nothing wuncenscious about
. the fascist brutality of lynch-
DOES UES ings, pogroms, and the vile
2 . : 5 5 cS
Mein Kamph will recognize pe hoes 2
here the typical traits of the propaganda of Coughlin, the
murderous storm-troopers.
Dangerous people
] ee In disquise
in prejudice
were those who had serious
mental troubles. Most of
these mental cases were un-
age Citizens, mentally sick ware Of their dangerous
patients and criminals in condtions. Or they vigorously
prison. All were given the enied it.
Same, standard psychological
tests.

Strangest
and

These tests are used to de-
a person’s mental
emotional conditions.
They have been tried on
Vast numbers

of men and
women during the last five
years, and rarely give errors.

crimes,
Besides these, the scientists

while
used a Simple questionnaire

to find out each person’s at-
titude toward race questions.

inal sex behavior.

sisted
. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 10

Jewish people

of their
most serious defects were ex-
actly the faults they blamed
upon the innocent

they hated. For
many of the race-haters ac-
cused the

Negroes

they them-
selves showed very danger-

OUs tendencies toward crim-

Again, the anti-Semites in-
that

Social Creditors, British Is-

raelites and their kind.
are either aggressive or cow-

It
would be better if we had
F special significance is
ards. In each case the pre-
judiced person himself had
all,

the discoverey that in-

such weaknesses to an out-
standing degree.

laws that would send such

But we haven’t.
ridden

creatures into confinement
On the average these hate-

The practical problem is
mates of a certain Federal
prison, all of whom were un-
der sentence for crimes of

violence, showed high rat-

ings in the race-hatred test.

men and women B her f i fk
showed a typical and highly eos er tact is oO een
groups unsatisfactory political interest.
example,
of

to expose them as public en-
sex

emies trying to destroy our
freedom, to fight them po-
litically, and at the same
time explain to all honest
: folk the utter depravity of
personality. ORS E7Se race-hating.
They were extremely selfish, cal feature of those race-
very superstitious, aggressive haters who were not con-
and had abnormally strong
family ties, Besides hating
Tacial minorities they also
despised creative,

“conservatism,”
artistic

victs Was a peculiar sort of
them.

which gave
strong impulses
and intelligent people. Any- ‘fight progressive

one who has had any experi- taking the law

We can back this up, too,
ence with fascists or who

to
by
into their

With the warning that any
ideas

normal person who allows
own hands.

himself to slip into fascist
thinking and

talking

is
heading straight for serious

mental trouble.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1946