Yes, I think that's the difference in a nutshell.
It's analogous but I'm not sure it comes from the same source. Just like atheism was & still is seen as a corrupting influence. Also porn.
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This is an old impulse &underlies heresy/blasphemy but the fear of corrupting what is good is different to the urge to dismantle what is bad
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Or, they might say, it reinforces the bad or the status quo.
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Yes, it is the lefties who see status quo as bad & themselves as continuing the project of dismantling oppressive systems.
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I think this explains it well.
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Thanks! This is why I just wrote a thing with James Lindsay abt the need to defend modernity rather than the left or the right.
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