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Reality maintenance is maybe the purpose of a lot of hashtag discourse, but I think conservatives perceive their way of seeing the world (but really their ethical self-conception) is under assault in a way liberals/progressives/maybe even leftists do not.
Probably also something to the idea that folks to the left are usually defending against a set of ideas that have historically caused violence against their identity group, while conservatives are generally defending their self-conception, their “why I am a good person” story..
I get it. I spend a fair amount of time resisting ethical claims others make on me. But because I recognize that process for what it is (HIGHLY motivated reasoning, to say the least), I’m often able to interrupt it.
If more conservatives recognized their reactions as the sort of ethical self-protection they tend to be, I wonder if we’d get better outcomes, if only in terms of (classical) liberalism/“quality of discourse.”
Even just boiling it down to “what specifically is the ethical claim being made on me? What am I being asked to believe or do?” could be productive, and reduce the feeling of being constantly attacked. If I were a psych researcher I would def draw up an experiment for this.
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