This video from Lindsay Ellis discusses empathy, antisemitism, genocide, and Ms Rachel. It is long, but well worth watching.
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel (YouTube – Lindsay Ellis)
Tag: Empathy
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Empathy
Empathy, the ability to understand another person’s feelings and point-of-view, is essential to civilization. We should all be very skeptical of anyone who presents it as a flaw because what they’re really asking us to do is dehumanize those they view as adversaries.
The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.
Elon MuskElon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy (CNN)
Scott Boehmer 