• elbiter@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 days ago

    People should be treated the way they treat others. MAGAs cry for the empathy and respect they deny to everyone else.

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
    15·
    12 days ago

    The conservatives claim to mourn him yet through their actions dishonor him

    This is a true patriot that died for our 2nd amendment

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      Animals also feel empathy. Which means he wasn’t just a subhuman, he was subanimal.

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
      16·
      12 days ago

      The issue I have is not so much that, but how much of the American population it seems to have resonated with.

      • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        12 days ago

        It’s what the country was created for. The royal “tyranny” was the King refusing to overrule the elected government when they made a law against genociding the native Americans.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
        10·
        12 days ago

        The USA is literally the mass shooter of the world, and was built on Native lives and African suffering, of course being inhumane resonates with them, lol. Empathy and moral accountability must be discarded for Americans to get what they want!

        • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
          4·
          11 days ago

          Yeah. I mean we also did that in Canada. But we’re slightly less crazy and stupid than the US.

          But most days it feels like how much better we are perceived than the United States is… unjustified.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      61·
      12 days ago

      Yeah, exactly what I thought. Just basing an opinion off a social deficiency.

      “It’s stupid because I can’t do it.”

  • nozone@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    12 days ago

    I try to have empathy for every human being, in every possible circumstance, but it’s hard to care sometimes… but especially when you tell me not to care, and that caring is weak. Today I will be strong, like he would have wanted.

  • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 days ago

    The English term “empathy,” in fact, was coined only in 1908. English-speaking psychologists needed translations of the German scientific terms appearing in the new discipline of experimental psychology. By around 1913, “empathy” became the term of choice for the German Einfühlung, which literally means “in-feeling.” Empathy captured the ability to project one’s own inner strivings, movements, and feelings into the shapes of objects. In the early twentieth century, then, empathy was quintessentially an aesthetic impulse.

    Wild that we didn’t need a word for it before.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      Have you seen how we were acting, though? I don’t if it was a lack of need or a lack of it being there to label…

  • Cruel@programming.devBanned from community
    125·
    12 days ago

    In the context of the quote, he clearly didn’t know what empathy means. He said he prefers the term “sympathy” (likely not really knowing the distinct definition of either one).

    He was actually supporting empathy in the full context, saying that Democrats were running astray from Bill Clinton’s messaging utilizing empathy/sympathy.