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Aella Retweeted Diana S. Fleischman
if you can't empathize with the opponent then you have a terrible imaginationhttps://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1322934522896289792 …
Aella added,
Yeah, my relatives who died in the camps write endless letters about how they understood the Germans' POV. And my other relatives who were lynched in the south left endless records about how bad they felt for their masters. This isn't "political," it's foundational morality.
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.
You're a better person than I. But I would suggest that treating these deplorables (Hillary TM) as having merely "another" opinion, is how we got here. Racists/fascists/misogynists/homophobes need to be shamed into irrelevance, not invited to the party.
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.
i used to be one of those terrible people you don't empathize with, and I will fight strongly for what i think is right now, but it's still so, so important to hold in mind the humanity of those who are hurting you, or you can never reach peace
I agree with you in principle. But again: as a person of color in America... it's NOT my job to "empathize" with these monsters. My people have done their job. Built this country. Endured. Time's up for racists, especially those in power.
It is your job to empathize with these monsters, just as it's my job to empathize with the men who told me my purpose in life was to breed and not to think. We don't get to just turn off empathy because we've been hurt really badly.
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