When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.
~Hélder Pessoa Câmara
“Charity good, commusocialamnism bad.” --your average American dipshit
At the root of that is racism and prejudice, just like everything else. They don’t want the money going to certain groups, and the charities that they support align with their goals.
This is the same reason for private/charter schools; they get to be more…selective in their admissions (and deep down this is the real reason people support voucher programs)
It’s all about control and the chain of oppression.
Reminds me of that recent ad that pissed off the right wing world because it depicted a white person as a Welfare Queen.
Please…biggest welfare queens out there are probably the Waltons.
The whole reason they keep their billions is because a huge chunk of their employee payroll is subsidized by welfare and medicaid…and then most of that money ends up getting spent in their stores!
You know what the worst part is…is that between Amazon, Target, and Walmart…Walmart is actually seeming like the lessest evil. What the fuck, timeline?
I don’t even remember what I had against Target so bad. I wanna say it was how quickly they kissed-the-ring on Trump-2 and started echoing his anti-DEI sentiment, but who knows, a lot has happened.
Nowadays quoting the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz) is for most people totally antifascist and radical…
And usually my reaction is “bro did you ever checled what happened so we enforced that law…?”
I am a Scottish derived Redneck, utilitarianism is in my blood the current systems rarely deliver particularly good utility towards the common man so I hate it. Now imagine how much worse I got when I learned of what happened at Blare Mountain? To say my hatred and bloodlust are rather extreme would be an understatement, I wish to build a new mountain range from the corpses of corporate dogs and their fool defenders.
Also I value culture and see how the current systems strip it down for profit, which I consider to be the start point for the philosophical death of mankind.
Don’t worry, we get to experience the spiritual, cultural, economic and PHYSICAL deaths of every part of human! Front row seats :D
People just let mean people be mean because it is easier than having a confrontation about them being shitty. Thus our entire society is engulfed with shitty people with shitty attitudes never getting told off or suffering consequences. Everyone doubles it and passes it on.
I would like to see a society where if someone is mean or abusive, they get their shit rocked on the fucking spot. Physically break their bodies in accordance to how abusive they were behaving.
I will not be taking questions, thank you.
I just say bigots instead of mean people because that’s who I actually mean.
I have a feeling that’s not who you mean though lol.
Who do you think I mean? I’m curious
Considering you said “mean” people I assume people you personally find mean, which is super non specific really.
I mean everything from “if someone says some wildly offensive shit they should get slapped instantly.”
To “if you are primarily responsible for the deaths/impoverishment/manipulation/deceit of millions, your body should be extruded through a fine sieve as means of execution at the earliest possible moment.”
I can get down with that
learned empathy when my sister stepped on a belt buckle I carelessly left on the floor. I still remember her screaming in pain and try to think of consequences of my own actions to others. childhood lessons
Born entitled more like…🙄
From a bot, to a person who really believes that, to a person who just thinks it’s funny to be annoying, there is nothing quite as sad as these kinds of comments.
It’s just virtue signalling, that’s all
Yea, so, it’s actually ok to signal your virtues. It’s not ok if you’re lying, but just about every single person I’ve heard talk about like it’s some great evil is extremely aggressive in doing it for their own scummy values, is very often hypocritical about them, and only complains when they hear someone speak about kindness. Pretty much every single right-wing campaign and internet meme is just completely empty virtue signalling, for example. It’s all just a show so people can feel tough because they’re piss-scared of of actually being tough and standing up against an abusive authority.
The meme in OP is too vague to actually mean anything though
It really isn’t, but maybe you just don’t get it. Unfortunately, the reality of our current situation is that nuance is a luxury reserved for when your worst likely option is still somewhat decent, and you’re arguing details. At the moment, it’s just half the world telling the other half to go fuck themselves for asking for basic respect and rights and both halves are getting rat-fucked by the rich.
So yea, when someone gets confused by how another could be radicalized a lot of us just tiredly go “how the fuck aren’t you?!”
Paying attention.
The world is on fire while the Epstein class diddles.
Empathy is weakness to the most fragile little boys with insanely huge egos and a rapacious need to hurt everyone and anyone for a nickel.
kids, if you see a billionaire, run. they are most likely a pedophile 😱
thinking raping children isn’t the best makes you a terrorist by definition.
the government decides who a terrorist is, so the word has no meaning
your mom decides who she thinks is hot so the word has no meaning and I don’t have to reconsile my immensely negative self image with the idea that I could be wanted by another human being.
false equivalence
you can’t be tortured for years and even decades because someones mother thinks you’re hot
I can absolutely torture myself about it! don’t tell me what I can or can’t feel!
I suppose this is a better way to put it. The more I learn about things the more angry I get. :( but it’s not that I’m changing, it’s that so many things are done for profit consequences be damned, or bigotry and racism.
Gross.
Agreed, the last few points are the product of indoctrination; and at least for the ‘profit’ part, capitalism is the problem.
The problem of indoctrination runs deep, that even bigotry can be seen within leftist areas (lemmy for example). Sexism, ageism and racism is just the tip of the iceberg.
yeah. I think doing stupid awful things with terrible side effects that won’t really work when you have better options is bad.
I like books. I think thinking helps you make good decisions.
I’m too radical for the local communists.
I didn’t cross the line of extremism. The extremism line crossed over me.
Soon…
I didn’t cross the line of criminality. The criminal line crossed over me.
Our world today must have been as hard to imagine as it is to imagine the world centuries ago. Like the entire concept that Leviticus and Exodus stated that it was wrong to accept interest on a loan. Martin Luther even tried to keep that up when Calvin split off in the early 1500s. So that’s like a 3000 year period from Leviticus to Calvinism that capitalism just couldn’t exist the way it does today. Every business and many of the shackles on society are tied to interest rates.
How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles
(Musk and Rogan warning)
Fuck, that was a depressing read. :(
I’ve thought about this question for over 10 years and I’ve had many answers. The most consistent answer throughout the years has been simply listening
I’m a quiet person and people generally notice that I’m a good listener. This somehow makes me the unexpected therapist. People just tell me what’s truly in their hearts and on their minds. Sometimes they don’t even notice they are saying what they are saying and it catches themselves off guard. They talk, I listen. What people don’t realize is that I remember too…
I’ve heard so many stories. Rejection, manipulation, poverty, hate, sexual violence, war and the list goes on
The gift of making people feel heard and the curse of remembering all their stories
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Case in point: this image is basically pure text, but in a form unperceivable to people who need actual text.
No empathy there.
Empathy truly is radical: far easier to proclaim than to universally practice.Those who react with hostility when lapses in empathy are pointed out likely have a special deficiency in empathy: they need to self-reflect & take inventory of themselves.
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I mean you can point it out without acting like a cockweasel.
Hostility biased to construe a forthright criticism maliciously for not being ingratiating to your standards demonstrates an insecurity more concerned with saving face rather than consideration for points others make, so it’s not particularly empathetic or enlightened, and it’s somewhat entitled. A just person cares more about doing what is right than in satisfying their ego even when it seems to cost them and goes unappreciated. Their acts are an unusual wonder & in the scheme of humanity radical.
Put the thesaurus down buddy.
Another superficial style over substance fallacy: you argue over style rather than address substance. As remarked earlier, such cheap, emotionally-stunted tactics for a superficial, self-centered mind aren’t a great argument for empathy.
Same advice as before: self-reflect, take personal inventory.
Earlier remarks stand.
no consideration, certainly. no word on empathy content.
‘empathy’ does not mean kindness or virtue or caring. it is a specific narrow thing that, as demonstrated, has limited utility without other virtues. think of it like cinnamon. goes in a lot of things, more than you’d think but not all, and kind of garbage on its own.
Oof, right in your feels.
True dat.
People have intellectual empathy. They know what they’re supposed to feel. They know how you feel. That’s how they know how to manipulate or abuse you.
There’s something about people that’s missing the part where they care.
You’re very smart. Well done.
