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human
Conservatism as a political idealogy literally means to keep the status-quo, or not change anything. So to be conservatism is to be accepting of laws that suppress minority groups. 

Many people thing conservative means “to conserve” in a monetary sense or such, but it is simply one of the three ways all political groups are lumped together. Either be regressive, repealing laws and reverting back to previous ways of doing things, conservative, not wanting things to change, and progressive, wanting things to change.
gpt
That definition of conservatism relies too heavily on its etymology. 

The *concept* of conservatism is a political ideology that seeks to maintain things as they are, but in principle there doesn't exist a conservative political party in the US that actually feels that way.