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Careful, that's some very reasoning
Wtf are you on about? They clearly meant in the sense that we have evolved to think spiders are creepy/scary. This feels like you're baiting, or if not that, you're habitually interpreting people's words in the worst possible light.
Using the "evo science" logic, then we are also afraid of strangers, so that reasoning is often used against the "other" so no, it's not baiting but based on actual atrocities committed against those that were seen as "scary." Please don't minimize that.
That's a wild jump to conclusions. You're painting an entire field of science as fascist.
There are legitimate criticisms of evolutionary psychology, but it's not fully discredited like eugenics is.
Claiming that there is a natural tendency towards fear of certain other categories of species is not necessarily biological essentialism. It's a tendency that can be overcome with mindfulness, which is not the same as biological essentialism. But a lack of mindfulness isn't that big a red flag on its own.
You can definitely argue for the above without also thinking that racism is inborn or "natural."