Reddit is a case example of how when you empathy too thin by caring about everyone and everything, you become less in touch with humanity than a psychopath.
...of course that's the generous take, the other take is that they're all malicious actors that don't care how many children are raped so long as THEIR side wins.
"Empathy" is just a made up word* women introduced into Psychology to champion their superior "emotional intelligence" narrative. Because too many times they got hit back for trying to sympathize with someone with lines like "how could you possibly understand what I'm going through."
So they created this super awesome power to just be able to emotionally resonate with people on everything regardless of their privilege or identity. When in reality it was just sympathy repackaged to pretend it wasn't 1st World White Women crying about pain they couldn't understand to begin with.
*It was originally a translation for some German word used to project your desires onto objects, like a mountain stretching upwards. It got complete redefined around WW2, coincidentally once Karen Horney had been poisoning the well with her feminist superiority psychology across America.
To be fair, a dirty little secret is that the vast majority of people don't have the ability to actually sympathize either, which is why it got its bastardized watered down definition of "I feel bad that you feel bad". But being able to actually place yourself in someone else's shoes, understand their point of view, how they arrived at it, why it seems right to them, what data led them to that conclusion, etc is a skill that I would wager less than 5% of humans actually have. Virtually everyone is only able to view the world through the lens of their own experience, even if they think they can do otherwise.
I think most people can sympathize, but its not an absolving feeling either. I can sympathize with the hard life a single mom is going through. This doesn't mean I approve of her actions nor believe that the blame isn't still squarely on her regardless. I'm certain almost anyone can manage that level of sympathy, as its basic human morality.
But that's what people want. They want your positive emotions, but without any judgement. Which is what "empathy" means to them. Its a woman explaining how she cheated but wants you to think of her as a victim anyway and tell her her reasonings as valid.
Reddit is a case example of how when you empathy too thin by caring about everyone and everything, you become less in touch with humanity than a psychopath.
...of course that's the generous take, the other take is that they're all malicious actors that don't care how many children are raped so long as THEIR side wins.
"Empathy" is just a made up word* women introduced into Psychology to champion their superior "emotional intelligence" narrative. Because too many times they got hit back for trying to sympathize with someone with lines like "how could you possibly understand what I'm going through."
So they created this super awesome power to just be able to emotionally resonate with people on everything regardless of their privilege or identity. When in reality it was just sympathy repackaged to pretend it wasn't 1st World White Women crying about pain they couldn't understand to begin with.
*It was originally a translation for some German word used to project your desires onto objects, like a mountain stretching upwards. It got complete redefined around WW2, coincidentally once Karen Horney had been poisoning the well with her feminist superiority psychology across America.
To be fair, a dirty little secret is that the vast majority of people don't have the ability to actually sympathize either, which is why it got its bastardized watered down definition of "I feel bad that you feel bad". But being able to actually place yourself in someone else's shoes, understand their point of view, how they arrived at it, why it seems right to them, what data led them to that conclusion, etc is a skill that I would wager less than 5% of humans actually have. Virtually everyone is only able to view the world through the lens of their own experience, even if they think they can do otherwise.
I think most people can sympathize, but its not an absolving feeling either. I can sympathize with the hard life a single mom is going through. This doesn't mean I approve of her actions nor believe that the blame isn't still squarely on her regardless. I'm certain almost anyone can manage that level of sympathy, as its basic human morality.
But that's what people want. They want your positive emotions, but without any judgement. Which is what "empathy" means to them. Its a woman explaining how she cheated but wants you to think of her as a victim anyway and tell her her reasonings as valid.
Its pure woman logic behind the word.