if you can't empathize with the opponent then you have a terrible imagination
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yeah i was raised in a patriarchal cult where abortion was the worst sin and women were explicitly referred to as less intelligent and brave and my entire life purpose was to become a housewife and i was subject to tons of beatings
I can still fucking empathize with them.
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i used to be a fanatical fundamentalist christian who told "fags" they were going to hell and if i had only met people like you who shamed me instead of actually listening and talking with me, i would *still* be a fanatical fundamentalist christian.
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you can't say that. You legitimately can't say there's zero potential for growth for people who had 4 years of trump. You don't understand *why* they want this. If you'd been born them, you'd be supporting trump too. We can't just ignore them and hope they go away.
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It's this attitude which got us into this problem in the first place - people who are voting for trump have reasons, and those reasons generally are feeling that nobody is listening to how they're hurting, and are shaming them for having those hurts.
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I think trump is terrible and it's really unfortunate they're voting for him, but the way to get them to stop voting for him isn't to shame them further and dismiss their pains even more, that's going to backfire. That's how we got here.
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Yeah, but i think my point is 1. you summoning the pain of others (e.g., relatives) isnt necessarily right; me and a lot of people who've gone through pain still maintain that empathy
and 2. not empathizing is what *got us trump*. I don't want trump.
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