if you can't empathize with the opponent then you have a terrible imaginationhttps://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1322934522896289792 …
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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.
You had the potential for growth. Anyone, after 4 years of T, who *still* rides or dies for him, doesn't. The nation may not survive the past 4 years: it certainly can't survive 4 more. They need to adapt, or be rightfully excluded from political discourse. Demography will out.
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.
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.
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.
I reject their hypotheses. Just like I reject the pain of 'incels' who murder women because they feel rejected. We differ on this matter. And that's ok. Ultimately, your humanity is more productive. We need Malcoms as much as we need Martins.
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.
Again, we disagree. 4 years of a black man in office, white grievance politics and the shrinking of a demography many thought was simply "America" got us here. The economic anxiety canard has been throughly debunked. *Identity* was the primary driver of '16.
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