Opponents also seem to think that someone expressing a controversial view will likely cause others to believe that view and act on it.
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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The first is a conservative impulse and the second a revolutionary one. If you credit Haidt on this, its unlikely they come from same place.
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