Per the empathy conversation that keeps going around there is a video in the comment section I would like you guys to check out but also...
Whether or not you agree with Charlie’s position on empathy (which he was 100% correct about—it’s being weaponized to silence people..its done in the macro and micro all the time. If you have been a part of or witnessed abuse you KNOW this is true), if you can’t muster basic empathy regardless of his stance, that says far more about you than it does about him. If empathy is a central tenet of how you claim to view the world, then the fact that it can be applied so selectively calls into question both your understanding of it and your actual access to it within yourself.
I’ve also listened to Charlie’s full position on empathy, and what’s being reported is a gross misrepresentation of his thesis. I encourage those of you who haven’t heard it for yourself to go and listen. Again—you don’t have to agree with him. I’m not saying that you must. But at the very least, understand the full context. Because, as always, context does matter.And this is the crux of my point. As I wrote yesterday, the extremism and the blindness to us becoming the very things we say we hate MUST be recognized. MUST be contended with. Because the moment we dehumanize others for disagreeing with us, we begin to lose our own humanity.
I’ve studied narcissism, abuse, and manipulation tactics for nearly a decade. It’s what I know best. And I’m telling you this: the moment you start justifying the very behaviors you claim to despise, one of two things is true—either your mind has been manipulated into defending evil, or you never hated those actions in the first place. You just wanted to be the only one allowed to use them.
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Per the empathy conversation that keeps going around there is a video in the comment section I would like you guys to check out but also...
Whether or not you agree with Charlie’s position on empathy (which he was 100% correct about—it’s being weaponized to silence people..its done in the macro and micro all the time. If you have been a part of or witnessed abuse you KNOW this is true), if you can’t muster basic empathy regardless of his stance, that says far more about you than it does about him. If empathy is a central tenet of how you claim to view the world, then the fact that it can be applied so selectively calls into question both your understanding of it and your actual access to it within yourself.
I’ve also listened to Charlie’s full position on empathy, and what’s being reported is a gross misrepresentation of his thesis. I encourage those of you who haven’t heard it for yourself to go and listen. Again—you don’t have to agree with him. I’m not saying that you must. But at the very least, understand the full context. Because, as always, context does matter.And this is the crux of my point. As I wrote yesterday, the extremism and the blindness to us becoming the very things we say we hate MUST be recognized. MUST be contended with. Because the moment we dehumanize others for disagreeing with us, we begin to lose our own humanity.
I’ve studied narcissism, abuse, and manipulation tactics for nearly a decade. It’s what I know best. And I’m telling you this: the moment you start justifying the very behaviors you claim to despise, one of two things is true—either your mind has been manipulated into defending evil, or you never hated those actions in the first place. You just wanted to be the only one allowed to use them.
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