I don't think Dawkins unwittingly supports the extreme right at all.
If the extreme right want to apply Occam's Razor to the social realm,
that's their infantile disorder. It can't be related to the
correctness, or otherwise, of Dawkins' adaptationism either way.
Otherwise you get some sanctimonious old perv like Oliver James
claiming that evolutionary psychology is just a cover for reactionary
racist-and-sexist bigotry, projecting onto the theorists a confusion
between Is and Ought that is all his own.
Dominic
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