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As a former obnoxious internet atheist who, unlike many such former obnoxious internet atheists, doesn't particularly regret that phase of my life or think I was particularly wrong about it, I find myself agreeing with this. On the one hand, YEC is absurd and idiotic, and it truly boggles the mind that an intelligent adult with a modern education could even entertain the idea. And someone buying into the whole oppression narrative while being intelligent is understandable in a way someone buying into YEC isn't, because the former is the dominant hegemonic narrative that gets reinforced in almost every sphere of public life.
And this results in that giving political power to someone who believes in YEC certainly seems far less dangerous than someone who believes in that oppression narrative. YEC is almost fully marginalized now, basically only brought up to be the punchlines of jokes. The idea that someone's belief in YEC could have some truly meaningful and negative consequences for the policies they put in place seems rather absurd given that marginalization of YEC. On the other hand, again, that oppression narrative is the dominant one in our society - if not the dominant one, certainly one of the top contenders. It has the backing of many massive political, economic, social, and even religious institutions, ready to steamroll whatever stands in the way of the policy changes they want to implement. These policy changes tend to have direct, measurable, noticeable effects on people's everyday lives. Someone who buys into this narrative is clearly much more capable of doing harm with their power. Hence, more dangerous.
Of course, things can and will likely change. The pendulum and all that. I'm just reminded of an essay I read back in 2002 or 2003 when some neocon was outlining his opposition to Bush in some policy, saying that when you're driving on a narrow bridge and you see the steering wheel is turned all the way to the right, the correct thing to do isn't to put the steering wheel back to the center, it's to sharply turn it to the left.
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