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lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read" (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 5 months ago by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 33 points 5 months ago

based and i adore people who are like you

it does tend to be a good litmus test for disempathy, sadly. obviously there are outliers, but if one can’t take a tiny correction to like 0.01% of their vocabulary, color me not surprised when that same person starts talking about the immigrant problem or women’s place in the home or something :(

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

My guy still thinks bigotry is caused by lack of empathy. It's actually selective empathy that helps encourage bigots.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Selective presence of empathy is exactly equivalent to selective lack of empathy, which is a type of lack of empathy.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Except that literally everyone who has empathy does selective empathy, even if not intentionally. You also can't really form an in-group and out-group mindset without empathy. Like if there was no empathy at all bigotry wouldn't be nearly as big.