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First of all, I never blamed victims.
Secondly, you didn't call it out for cruelty, you said "they" lack empathy, and "cannot see others as human".
This is patently false and harmful. Try as you might, they're not xenomorphs.
I listed numerous examples to illustrate the ways conservatives lack empathy. There is nothing "patently false" about it. They lack empathy. They see empathy as weakness to be exploited.
I think you are giving a great deal of credit to those who don't even want it.
I think you may have only met some extraordinarily harmful people or you have read too much of the Internet. Go meet a super strict conservative at the table. Shit, go out and make friendly conversation with a white supremacist. People can have awful beliefs for soooo many reasons but they're still people with all the feelings you keep trying to deny them.
The phobias you mentioned aren't really about empathy to begin with - a decade ago, they were about fear. Hence the name. And you haven't admitted to your false claim of me blaming victims.
Quit demonizing swaths of people based on gross generalizations, dude. You're adding to the bullshit that hurts us all.
Patently false, or patently obvious? I've been following politics for about 24 years now and my observations overwhelming point to conservative values being horrific, inhumane, and quite frankly stupid.
Conservative values are not conservative people. Hate the ones running the show, not the idiots following them.
Or sure, hate the idiots for being idiots, but that's as useful as yelling at a brick.
I agree in principle but it's really hard to care about the distinction when those people are actively destroying my country with their idiocy and cruelty.
I 100% agree. But the dehumanizing comments like the one I originally responded to are just as useless. Fuck the assholes for falling for the same God damn cons each time, for hurting everyone with their beliefs. But they're still people.
And if you want to look at it in a cold and calculated way, their idiocy can be useful. You just have to play to their emotions like what the gop does. They're idiots. It's not hard to trick or train them.