One of the nagging thoughts that has been bouncing around in my head is how almost every time a leftist pushes “empathy” it’s never actually empathetic, it’s in fact a condensed sociopathic view. Take for example when they push troonery, no rational or empathetic person would want someone to take an axe to their life let alone their genitalia, but an egregious sociopath would and like any sociopath, they would turn around and blame you when the inevitable happens. This is replicated in abortion, illegal immigration, critical race theory, LGBTQ, and climate change. Their “empathetic view” is never about actually helping anyone, even their “pet” obsessions are always worse off, but what it is about is causing the most damage to society possible and doing so with a smile as they declare themselves the “good guys”.
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I have long suspected the same. Their "empathy" is an expression of sociopathy, as a direct result of making "empathy" a virtue beyond it's utility.
Liberals have a pathological outgroup bias, which is weaponized to destroy our nations. They also exhibit short term thinking, aka short time preference, in that they don't want you to make poor minorities feel bad right now, ignoring possible consequences to society in the future.
So, having adopted the cultural value of empathy as a moral imperative, the liberal-minded from a young age displace their capacity for actual empathy with virtual signaling performative empathy. At some point they lose the ability to understand real empathy, which biologically is only intended for limited purposes of protecting your kin. This phenomenon was really accelerated by people living in cities as obligate-consumers, and global media bringing news from around the world to your feed making it more persistent and present than local events. IMO this is why you see studies where liberals reported to love all things in the universe and rocks more than their own neighbors. It may not literally be sociopathy because it's likely correctable, but for all intents and purposes it behaves the same way.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Empathy is the thing liberals accuse you of not having when you don't want to be made into a tax slave for retards, faggots, and blacks.
Exactly this. They don't actually care (have empathy for) about their "causes" because those can change overnight. All they care about is being seen as supporting "the correct side of history" with the knowledge that they will be writing the history books.
If they actually cared about climate change (for example) they'd have to think about it! And maybe disagree with what The Elite are telling them, and maybe, just maybe come to realize the "other side" has had valid points all along.
Can't let that happen, eh?
Its like a lame gay version of roko's basilisk. You have the be on the right side because thay side will get to say they were right
Duh. Its how jews have been operating for centuries. Our fatal mistake was giving women more power, because they are the jews biggest marks.
If you cant manipulate reality, the next best is to manipulate emotion.
And boy do women love "in-group/out-group" preference.
From the title I thought this was going to be a post about women.
It is an inherently feminine form of sociopathy. Any person who has had the misfortune of dating or being related to a female sociopath would recognize it instantaneously. It’s like the girls that grooms depressed teenage boys into suicide.
They always have one-way empathy.
It's like a baby - it cries and expects you to respond. Except if you cry it just stands and looks at you confused "no, crying is my job, you get nothing".
Stupid people aren't able to discern the difference between empathy and acceptance.
So Jews then?