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no-empathy-culture-is · 17 days ago

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No/Low empathy culture is seeing the comment section of short film, 'Horacio' being a whole bunch of anti low empathy/sympathy idiots and being so exhausted. People do not need empathy in order to not kill someone!! We just Choose not to kill others, is that not what everyone is doing??

Like low empathy is not why that guy killed Horacio, he needs work on his impulse control and noise suppression headphones.

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#mod gabriel #low empathy #no empathy #low empathy culture is #low/no empathy #low/no empathy culture is #no empathy culture is #queued post culture is #I wonder if a specific word for anti-low empathy/sympathy/compassion rhetoric or people would be useful.#On the one hand it's often an expression of sanism or ableism (in the sense of 'oh he has no empathy hes such a narcissist'#as well as low/no empathy being used as an accusation against neurodivergent and mentally ill people to discredit or abuse them.)#But on the other hand there are plenty of cases where it isn't really like that.#I worry that we'd just be reinventing the wheel if sanism or ableism could describe this... but I feel like it wouldn't describe it #with accuracy. And it's not always or strictly an expression of sanism or ableism. So. I don't know.#Politically it'd be advantageous to lump it in with sanism and ableism because these are already understood concepts #and it'd give us an edge in being taken seriously. But there are so many people in disabled & neurodivergent spaces that are also #anti-low empathy/sympathy/compassion. And there's a lot of people who are sympathetic (ha) to our cause but still use phrases like #'lacks empathy' to describe a bad person or a bigot. I worry that trying to join that community would end up causing a schism #which would make people in that community less likely to care for our cause.#I don't know.#And I don't think any of us can really articulate what we'd want out of political theory and activism anyway.#It'd be nice to feel safe in autistic spaces without worrying about people starting the 'oh autistics actually have empathy!!!' shit again.#Ok these tags are too long. Send post.

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