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.
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.
I see, yes with that understanding of the term, I agree with your assessment.
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.