I got the date slightly wrong. It took off after WW2. The point of the word is to get people to identify with out groups as a way of breaking down homogenous societies.
Empathy is effeminate bullshit about shared emotions. Rejecting empathy as a concept doesn't mean a disregard for the motivations of an external enemy. I can readily understand the CCP without having to share their emotional state, which is impossible.
Empathy is, and always has been, explicitly the vicarious feeling of the emotions another. It's meant to engender a subversive out group preference, as a person will overlay their own emotions onto another and mistake themselves for the other.
I got the date slightly wrong. It took off after WW2. The point of the word is to get people to identify with out groups as a way of breaking down homogenous societies.
Empathy is effeminate bullshit about shared emotions. Rejecting empathy as a concept doesn't mean a disregard for the motivations of an external enemy. I can readily understand the CCP without having to share their emotional state, which is impossible.
Empathy is, and always has been, explicitly the vicarious feeling of the emotions another. It's meant to engender a subversive out group preference, as a person will overlay their own emotions onto another and mistake themselves for the other.