If your so-called empathy is based upon ideological principles then it's not empathy, it's sympathy and it bides within alienation. It's not a connection to the unique, but a submission to an ideal.
The oppressed vs. oppressor narrative is based upon a false dichotomy. The reality is much more complex. I don't know of any legitimate studies which show that actual empathy is self defeating in any sense and I doubt the veracity of any such studies, if they actually exist.
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So the state & capitalism aren’t oppressive? And you’ll just dismiss data out of hand if it contradicts? Bc that’s exactly what I said the selfhood concept requires you to do, so, I mean sure.
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Oppression is more like a fractal than a clearly demarcated line. The idea that capitalism & the state = oppression is backwards. Rather, oppression, that is to say the mode of violence = capitalism & the state in a feedback loop. Like, I mean, that's how capital grows.
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Agree to disagree on this one too friend.
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