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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    He understood empathy. They all do.

    They understand since they were kids, it’s started being taught in schools to have empathy for others not as fortunate as you. They understand young kids strive to get the Empathy award in Kindergarten.

    Can’t have “certain” kids (theirs) growing up that way.

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        I knew one girl with Narcissistic Personality Disorder who realized she didn’t have empathy (her words) and specifically stated that she thought developing it would be detrimental. She thought lacking empathy gave her an advantage, straight up. This is actually common among pathological people like that.

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          Then she too wasn’t using the word correctly. She may have meant the affective portion of it, which she probably didn’t have.

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        IMO he and others like him are attacking the word empathy because they think how it is being taught will make boys act weak, along with all they believe that leads to.

        This is a guy who focused on conservative values in schools and used the word “woke”.

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          There’s nothing in the context of this quote or Elon Musk’s that suggests they’re talking about empathy being taught in schools and it making boys weak. In both cases it’s more a response to Democrats using the word a lot in their political speech to try to bring coalitions of people together.

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          That term isn’t really used anymore due to the stigma attached to it. Anti-social personality disorder is the term. It’s also clinically different from NPD.