This is a great example of how conservatives depend on their intellectuals primarily as a defense against the ethical claims others (are perceived to) make against them.https://twitter.com/raucreativity/status/978078441994993664 …
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.”
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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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