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[[File:White-Genocide paper.png|thumb| | [[File:White-Genocide paper.png|thumb|300x300px|A person promoting the "[[Great Replacement Theory|Great Replacement"]] conspiracy theory.]] | ||
A '''conspiracy theory''' is an attempted rationalization of an event or pattern of events that entails a often small yet powerful group of people who are plotting to preform an action on society, often with malicious intent. Conspiracy theories often reject commonly held knowledge or empirical fact, instead relying on a number of cognitive biases. | A '''conspiracy theory''' is an attempted rationalization of an event or pattern of events that entails a often small yet powerful group of people who are plotting to preform an action on society, often with malicious intent. Conspiracy theories often reject commonly held knowledge or empirical fact, instead relying on a number of cognitive biases. | ||
Revision as of 21:35, 16 March 2025
A conspiracy theory is an attempted rationalization of an event or pattern of events that entails a often small yet powerful group of people who are plotting to preform an action on society, often with malicious intent. Conspiracy theories often reject commonly held knowledge or empirical fact, instead relying on a number of cognitive biases.
Conspiracy theories are often used by reactionaries and fascists as a means of overlooking the factor of capitalism in socioeconomic issues. Rather, they blame these issues on ethnic groups or vague "elites". In the past, conspiracy theories have been used to justify massive atrocities such as genocide.[1]
Examples
"White genocide"
"Jewish Bolshevism"
"Cultural Marxism"
See also
References
- ↑ Douglas, K.M., Uscinski, J.E., Sutton, R.M., Cichocka, A., Nefes, T., Ang, C.S. and Deravi, F. (2019), Understanding Conspiracy Theories. Political Psychology, 40: 3-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12568