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Aaaaaaaaaaand because espousing such a belief probably means you are "the enemy", that you're a reasonable person who came to the same conclusion (and didn't have the sense to introduce it in a more effective way) is probably much less likely.
That's pretty much the same point I made in a different thread
By correlating X with Y (where e.g. X=race and Y=average intelligence), other people end up correlating "People who correlate X with Y" with Z (Z=people who are evil racist bastards).
That's a proper correlation, but it's still a epistemological bias to prejudice against the idea, just because the speakers of that idea are often evil.
Well said!