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The Left’s problem with Empathy


Studies have shown Leftists are NOT empathetic:

- They are less capable of understanding right wing concerns than vice versa

- Empathy is the capacity to imagine another reality, talk to any Leftist and you’ll see they lack this

- What Leftists do have is high neuroticism and mental illness: they feel more pain, are sicker, and are more delusional

- Leftism is self hate that’s so extreme they wage a war of vengeance on their healthy friends

- They use morality as a weapon to assault Life

- They don’t want to do mass immigration to “save the browns” out of a shuddering compassion

- They want to force their own people to experience humiliation, change and alienation

- They enjoy watching their parents, their friends, and their God dragged through the mud: this feels cathartic to them

“They want payback for the crime of being born”


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I think there is something to this.

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You two should mate, you know you're dying for it !

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You think people who agree online should… mate? That’s quite a self-report - when male Leftists agree your impulse is to meet up and fuck 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also, can two males ‘mate’? I think you’re suffering from a serious case of Leftoid gender confusion as well there.

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[–] Thaisticks (3189) 7 hours ago

You two should mate, you know you're dying for it !


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I don’t think anyone who has interacted with a Leftist could disagree with those observations.

Ask a Leftist to explain your position and they’ll draw a blank… then downshift to ‘you’re just a racist’.

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I get angry at how disingenuous their preaching of "empathy" is, when in fact, the source of them "sticking up for the little guy" is not about them knowing what it's like to be in a similar situation, but to show off to others that they're the heroes for the underdogs of society. It gets even worse when you realize many of these fools with a desperate superhero complex, actually don't like the very groups of people they pretend to care about. You can see it in their script-writing in films predating 2014, where they had this "white savior complex" going on. That's a very liberal value, not a conservative value at all. Conservatives are more into teaching people how to save themselves, instead of taking on all the work and treating everyone else like incompetent children, and they would walk off into the sunset quietly once the lessons had taken hold. You'd never hear about it in the press either, and a conservative wouldn't complain that nobody noticed either.

Liberals more than happy to point out Christian hypocrisy in America, for example, and yet never consider the fact that most charities out there are not run by secular liberals at all, but the very Christians they hate. In fact, unless they're rich enough to throw money at charities they pretend to care about for PR, liberals are some of the least charitable people you can imagine.

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Well said.

The Left’s vicious hatred of minorities who don’t go along with the agenda, who don’t want to be treated like poor pets that need help from their Leftist saviours, is also very telling.

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Oh yeah. You should hear how they treat black Republicans. They trot out all the racist, nasty names that they told everyone else not to call black people. Or they think black people are too stupid to get an ID to go voting. Or they think it's their duty to help people in 3rd world countries because they believe the people there are too stupid to do anything without the White Liberal Savior to hold their hand, with the cameras rolling.

Hearing them melt down from black and Hispanic men voting for Trump in this last election was particularly entertaining and disturbing all at the same time, because it means they never actually cared about those groups to start with, and got nasty when their favorite cause pets ran off to the other side of the field because they couldn't take the veiled abuse anymore.

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I always knew Leftists never cared about their ‘minority pets’ but it’s always great when they get so enraged by losing that they throw off their masks to spit hatred and the wider public gets to see their true colours.

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They also love to lie about people who aren't in their camp. It takes a special type of stupid to believe the lies of how Republicans are the racist ones, when our party was founded on freeing the slaves in the Civil War, while their party fought tooth and nail to keep black people slaves, and then used underhanded, illegal tricks to keep them down for another century after that!

I mean, a Republican will hear a black person whining about how life is unfair. The Republican looks at them and says, "Life has never been fair. Get off your ass and get a job!" and leave them to come the rest of the way. (Keep in mind they would have said it to a white person doing the same thing). A Democrat puts on the disgustingly fake, snake oil salesman smile, tells the black person everything they wanta hear, gives them free money (which they stole from the unsuspecting Republican earlier) or an easy, high-paying job that they're totally unqualified for, and tells them the Republican is a racist who doesn't care about them at all.

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Fake unknown anonymous "studies" from a right-wing blog.

IDIOT TRUMPITES strike again.

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Your response only reaffirms the truth of those observations. Thank you.

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Several studies in political psychology reported higher levels of empathy among political leftists (i.e. liberals) as compared to political rightists (i.e. conservatives).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10281241/#:~:text=Several%20studies%20in%20political%20psychology,political%20rightists%20(i.e.%20conservatives).

In this essay I have argued that empirical research on the relationship between empathy and political attitudes indicates that empathy is positively correlated with both liberal ideology in general and specific liberal policy preferences

https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5209/5209.html

Neuroscientists have found that the brains of people on the left side of the political spectrum display more empathy to other people’s suffering than the brains of political rightists.

https://students.uu.nl/en/gsls/do-your-political-preferences-predict-how-empathetic-you-are

New neuroscience research shows liberals experience more empathy than conservatives when they imagine others suffering

https://www.psypost.org/new-neuroscience-research-shows-liberals-experience-more-empathy-than-conservatives-when-they-imagine-others-suffering/

And how 'empathetic' does Melton himself appear on this board? How understanding of the plight of minorities or the equality of women, for instance do those seem of his ilk?

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