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The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy | Current Affairs
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Anybody who treats the Heart as the enemy cannot be suffered. Without it the mind is a shitty calculator that's incapable of actually understanding life or reality except through intellectual process that misses the mark way more than it ever hits.
If those ghouls want to wage war on empathy, that's dangerous in a way that requires response.
And also, a lack of empathy is literally the hallmark symptom of sociopathy and they’re advocating for people to intentionally behave as if they have this condition real people have and suffer from.
This isn’t to demonize those with ASPD, just pointing out that despite them being the first to whine about people faking mental health struggles for attention, I am fully convinced they want to fake a mental health condition that they believe makes them look badass.
Rightwing ideology has to constantly restrain and constrain people’s fundamental humanity including the need for community and social solidarity. These people have to fight their own nature as much as they tell others to fight their own