George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽While covering the Allen, Texas shooting this weekend, Fox had a guest on who joked that Americans should have a 'plan to kill everyone you meet.'
He even said it with a chuckle. We are truly a broken nation. 😢
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️@georgetakei
The defining characteristic of Conservatism is a lack of #Empathy. They are ALL Sociopaths.
The defining characteristic of Conservatism is a lack of #Empathy. They are ALL Sociopaths.
Dennis Conklin@MugsysRapSheet @georgetakei
This is a common misconception. Empathy is complicated. Most of our emotions are not affected by our conscious thoughts. For example if you fill out a spreadsheet and it shows that the love of your life is bad for you you don’t stop loving them. Empathy is different in that it is tied to the concept of “other”. We can decide who is “other” using our conscious mind and the “others” are not deserving of empathy. This is the reason the Republicans have to keep their base angry, why Dems are “baby eating Satan worshippers”, why they pose an “existential threat to ‘Merica”. Among their group of “NOT the Others “ they are very empathetic. We need to avoid responding to their demonization of us by demonizing them. By demonizing them we adopt the lack of empathy for them that we find so disturbing in them.
This is a common misconception. Empathy is complicated. Most of our emotions are not affected by our conscious thoughts. For example if you fill out a spreadsheet and it shows that the love of your life is bad for you you don’t stop loving them. Empathy is different in that it is tied to the concept of “other”. We can decide who is “other” using our conscious mind and the “others” are not deserving of empathy. This is the reason the Republicans have to keep their base angry, why Dems are “baby eating Satan worshippers”, why they pose an “existential threat to ‘Merica”. Among their group of “NOT the Others “ they are very empathetic. We need to avoid responding to their demonization of us by demonizing them. By demonizing them we adopt the lack of empathy for them that we find so disturbing in them.
@dconklin @georgetakei
You're overthinking this.
A lack of #Empathy is the ONLY way to explain the selfishness of believing one must protect *themselves* vs tolerating the mass-murder of children, or refusing to mask up during a pandemic.
@MugsysRapSheet @georgetakei
It isn’t lack of empathy, it’s lack of empathy for who we have empathy for. Not the same as sociopathic inability to have empathy for anyone.
It isn’t lack of empathy, it’s lack of empathy for who we have empathy for. Not the same as sociopathic inability to have empathy for anyone.
@dconklin @georgetakei
A reply I gave to another post may frame things better:
"They claim to be "Christians", but their worldview is that of the lions they were fed to."