the trope of conservatives being more disgust sensitive (purity oriented, afraid of uncleanliness, etc.) really does not line up nicely with covid reactions
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are covid restrictions really a disgust response? they strike me as more of a control fetish
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I think disgust-sensitivity actually relates to authoritarianism, which is a potential trait on both sides. It’s just that authoritarianism used to be more heavily associated with the right.
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I thought that was liberals - at least that was my impression of what Jonathan Haidt thinks
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Agree. IMO, it also doesn't line up when it comes to food/air/water purity, organ sales, meat/leather, genetic engineering, and probably other topics.
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I'm skeptical of the conservative disgust research, but one way it could roughly fit is of the conservative disgust response is less corrigible
Conservatives worried about covid earlier due to higher base rate disgust but media can't influence it higher
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Only partially true. They're keeping the dirty unnatural vaccine out of their body-temple.
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Is that because their notion of purity is based on a 2000 year old myth and mutations of those myths?
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