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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The conservative mindset believes social class is preordained. Karen believes people who have become homeless are destined to remain that way and it'd be a waste of resources to try to help them.

If you look at it through this lens, the phone is just prolonging their thrashing before they accept their fate and starve to death.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. The video "Always a Bigger Fish" from Innuendo Studios helps to clarify that mentality quite well: https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs [21:46]

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This video was great, thanks. I wish there was such a thing as a self aware conservative to refine the positions discussed and better understand how and why our worldviews differ

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

"My empathy is strictly local, and completely conditional."

That is rhe world view.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you for that video. I've been trying to say this for years but he says it so much cleaner and better.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I’m a conservative and I don’t believe this stuff, but I believe you if you’re saying you’ve met someone who does.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

If you think a hierarchy is natural, and that equality isn't achievable (or a waste of resources), you'd have a conservative mentality, and have a similar approach to the example Karen.