@isasv Well, again, if you look at moral panics: all people (but especially conservatives) are deeply neophobic, I guess due to apparently heightened threat sensitivity.

https://t.co/rZrBUc0jFz @isasv (Or, as I’ve seen it suggested, it may be that people genetically predisposed to higher levels of anxiety and threat sensitivity tend toward conservative politics. Though I will say years of bad run-ins with racists over here have left me hypervigilant, but not rightwing, so…)