The F-Scale

Stephen Kent Gray
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

A fascism scale test.

I took it and got a 1/6, so I’m a whining rotter apparently.

The Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook: 179 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution by Claire Wolfe Section 7 Check Your Authoritarianism. As our fellow citizens goose-step toward the American police state, we might want to stop and check our (or their) F-Scale rating. After World War II, researchers strove to identify the beliefs that made people receptive to fascism. The F-Scale is the modern refinement of the test they developed. You’ll find the F-Scale tester on the Internet at [link above]. The test is serious, but the ratings are tongue in cheek enough to be fun. You might quibble with the scoring categories (I am NOT a “liberal airhead”; I am a libertarian airhead), but it’s interesting and the table of personality variables at the end is revealing. Test yourself. Test Mom, Dad, teachers, preachers, cops, and politicians.

The book and the quote above is how I first found out about the F-Scale. I want to know what score all my readers got. I got 1/6 as in a perfect 1 for strongly disagreeing with all the premises of fascism. Thus, my whining rotter status mentioned earlier. In politics, a perfect 6 is the ultimate fascist while the perfect 1 is the ultimate libertarian or radical for capitalism as Brain Doherty’s book called it.

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