Here's another recent article on the parity of prejudice among liberals
and conservatives. However:
"There’s an argument to be made that
conservative intolerance does more harm than liberal intolerance, as it
targets more vulnerable people. Consider the earlier list of groups
maligned by liberals and conservatives. Rich people, Christians, men,
whites and the police would generally seem to have more power today than
immigrants, gays, blacks, poor people and goths."
More:
"Robbie Sutton, a psychologist at the University of Kent in
England, presented preliminary findings at SPSP that touch on the issue
of which intolerance is more justifiable. He found that people who
endorsed denialist conspiracy theories about climate change were more
likely than those who endorsed warmist conspiracy theories to want to
censor, surveil and punish climate scientists, whereas warmists were
more likely than denialists to want to punish and surveil climate change
skeptics. But are these sentiments equally harmful? Many people would
say that’s a subjective question, but it’s hard to ignore the evidence,
for instance, that Exxon has hidden its knowledge of climate change for
years, and the fact that that the current Republican administration has
placed new restrictions on Environmental Protection Agency scientists.
Who is more vulnerable, and backed by scientific evidence: Exxon or
environmental researchers?"
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