• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      11 months ago

      It’s the party of pure selfishness, they do not understand empathy. Until they themselves are affected at all, they won’t understand .

    • hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      That video Don’t be a Sucker should be mandatory yearly viewing. It won’t solve everything but people would learn to better recognize the divide and isolate patterns.

      Or maybe not. Humans are complicated.

    • Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This is the case for most people. People change their opinions when they’re personally affected because first hand personal experience is as real as its going to get.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Anyone who has empathy can see how bad things are for others without going through it themselves though

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            11 months ago

            Sure, but the definition is about putting yourself in others shoes. If someone said “let’s lock up all (ethnicity)” and you can’t imagine how shitty it is to be locked up due to ethnicity, then you got a problem

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              11 months ago

              Sure, but let me give you the same example but in a different context.

              Let’s suppose that instead of “let’s lock up everyone from this ethnic group”, a politician says “let’s stop illegal immigration”. Stopping illegal immigration is a perfectly rational, reasonable, moral stance to have. If someone hears the latter phrasing, they might take it at face value even if the politician really means the former. Thus, this individual has come to indirectly support the former even though they think they’re supporting the latter. The end result is the same because the politician’s intentions never changed, however, the morality of this individual is no longer as black and white as in your example.

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      11 months ago

      Ben Shapiro quaking in his Jewish little boots rn. Turns out if you’re instilling hate about all the minorities, they’ll eventually get to yours.