• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

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

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        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.