Did Trump or somebody pay you to write this tweet? Because this has the same kind of energy as those chuds that spew nonsense about cancer culture or that "TERF is a slur". There are just some bad people out there that can't change and never will, because they choose not to.
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Replying to @Zulnahdwiin @jdr____llc
If you believe the problem is indeed that they "choose not to" change then that's a reason to avoid medicalized terminology, especially because there are people who very much use it in this eugenic sense of identifying people diseased from birth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jdr____llc
I'm beginning to understand why the right thinks us lefties want to police all thought. All this pedantic nonsense and needless ethical agonizing is completely ridiculous on it's face. I see no advantage to pointing out how a word is used by worse people in a different context.
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Replying to @Zulnahdwiin @jdr____llc
It's not "pedantic nonsense", the word "narcissist" isn't just a random word people throw around, the "narcisphere" is a whole detailed pop-psychological theory that people on the Internet are really into that generates a lot of what I think of as very harmful ideas
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There are a lot of people -- often people who present themselves as authorities on the concept of abuse -- who outright say shit about how "The human population is divided in a 1:10 ratio between 'narcissists' and 'empaths' the way animals are divided between predators and prey"
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I have a lot of ambivalent feelings about the word 'empathy' and the way it's used Because the more someone valorises it, the more likely they are to demand it for themselves and/or use it as a stick to beat dissidents and neurodivergents with But it's also an important skill
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Replying to @Hi_Mike_Gorrie @arthur_affect and
I'm always leery of people who are convinced of their tremendous empathy because in my experience they're often so certain they know how others feel that they dispense with the unnecessary bother of actually listening to them.
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Replying to @SusieusMaximus @Hi_Mike_Gorrie and
If you believe that "empathy" is a quality rather than an action you're already on very dangerous ground I mean that's true of any word for a positive quality -- saying that you ARE honest or you ARE smart or you ARE humble or whatever
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and
I recently tried to explain that I'd decided to try and extend conditionless compassion to everyone, and it baffles people. It's a belief that it requires the soul of Mr Rogers and not that Mr Rogers cultivated this behaviour deliberately because he found it valuable.
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Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @SusieusMaximus and
And you'll notice that "compassion" (which is a calque for the word "empathy" or "sympathy", in Latin rather than Greek) is really not the same thing in our language
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Having a moral duty to look after someone's interests or respect their stated desires does not require that you "get them" on an emotional level at all Indeed if this duty is unconditional then it becomes extra important to exercise it on people you don't "get" and never will
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and
The unfortunate thing here is that if you don't understand someone on an emotional level, it's harder to interpret, understand, and cater to their stated interests There'll be a larger gap between the information you receive and the information they benefit from you knowing
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Replying to @Hi_Mike_Gorrie @arthur_affect and
In a lot of cases, empathy-as-a-skill is the capacity to understand the breadth of what it means to be human But often what people mean, in the most banal sense, is the capacity to anticipate their individual needs, specifically, right down to communication style
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