If you are MAGA, do you have contempt for empathy?
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Anonymous
I’m definitely going to need examples of Dems cruelty. |
Anonymous
this is what i've seen again and again and i think is at the crux of MAGA. MAGA thinks equity is unfair. If i must go to the office, so must you - even if you dont need to for your work. If I must wait to go through official channels to immigrate then so should you, even if you are running from violence. They aren't interested in making changes that make it EASIER for others, bc it was not easier for them. |
Anonymous
Yes, equity is unfair. Equality is not. The difference is equity means you want guaranteed outcomes. Equality means you want an even playing field. |
Anonymous
True. But how do you achieve that? |
Anonymous
By prosecuting individual instances of discrimination and NOT punishing the group with idiot affirmative action rules. |
Anonymous
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Moderate R here, and I have had this conversation with my D friends about this very topic. I do think that Republicans have less empathy, but are more logical. I'm not interested in getting into all the crazy stuff the president has said/done, but on a few basic points, as an R, I believe it is logical, though not empathetic to:
1. Not expect the entire population to add pronouns to their email signatures. If you need to let someone know your pronouns, add them. I don;t need to specifiy to anyone that I identify as a woman, because I am, obviously. I will (usually, and to the best of my ability) use them, unless of course you are being ridiculous and creating pronouns out of thin air like xi/xey. Then, you can kick dirt. The English language isn't a toy for contemptuous, teen girls who want to see how far they can push the envelope. 2. On immigration, I feel empathy for the families being separated, but not so much empathy that I can't logically understand that if you break the law and sneak into this country illegally, you should be sent back. Same goes for the argument over birthright citizenship. If you come here illegally or on a temp visa to ensure your child is a citizen, that should be revisited. Not a one of our European allies (those bastions of liberalism) allow birthright citizenship. One parent needs to be a legal citizen in most cases. I appreciate the chilling effect these steps will have on illegal immigration not because I fear immigrants, but because I believe in the rule of law. |
Anonymous
So women and POC just have to take it to the courts? Missing out on $$. Spending excess hours dealing with legal matters? That makes it very easy for the old boys network. Have any other creative ideas? |
Anonymous
I'm a dem and i also think it would be insane to expect everyone to add pronouns to their email signatures whether they want to or not. has that been suggested? |
Anonymous
Forcing me to announce my pronouns when I don't want to is not empathetic. It is bullying and demands that I conform to your wishes. |
Anonymous
Says the party that calls republicans Nazis, garbage and weird. |
Anonymous
| PP here. It was very quickly becoming a norm, at least in the professional circles I run in. Employers were encouraging it, adding links as to why it was important, etc. In fact, it very quickly became a marker of being an "empathetic" person versus not being an empathetic person, an ally, whatever. It's not empathy, its virtue signaling. I use this as just one example of the larger "issue" Rs have with how far things were pushed so quickly with regards to DEI and trans issues. |
Anonymous
| I will add that while it was not a logical trend, it was HIGHLY, some would say OVERLY, empathetic. |
Anonymous
Biden was so polite and dignified lol |
Anonymous
God, where to start? - Destroying the education of the most vulnerable students in the pandemic, leading to lifelong serious harm, in favor of trade unions that lobby for them. The data on the harm is incontrovertible, and after spring 2020, was known. Republicans showed more compassion for the most vulnerable children in the pandemic than Democrats did (and I say that as a registered Democrat in a blue state). The harms to those kids due to school closures will never be mitigated, and lives were not saved. The cynical ploy to buy party loyalty from the unions worked, and it’s obvious that’s what it was. - Don’t even get me started on the grotesque harms promulgated on vulnerable women and children by the male supremacist movement known as trans rights. Medicalized transition of children — hotly defended and pushed by Democrats — is going to remembered in history the way lobotomies are (and that’s if it’s not remembered the way the Tuskegee poisonings/murders are). - I live in a blue state and the progressive policies towards the homeless cannot be described as anything other than exceptionally cruel. Democrats push policies that have people die on the street. - Defund the police is cruel, particularly as it tends to be pushed by wealthy white liberals who never have to live with the consequences. I could go on and on and on. |
Anonymous
However, Republicans do not view dropping out of high school and having five children with four different fathers as a “situation they cannot help.” These are poor decisions that warrant very little, if any, empathy. But you will respond with, “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” We are considering the children, but subsidizing this behavior creates more issues, leading to generational poverty. |