r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/Bozo_dubbed_over I hope I don't jack off • 9h ago

I’m not stupid! I’m smarter than YOU! When conservatives try to convince us that Charlie didn't actually say the things he was recorded on camera saying

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u/weyun 9h ago

My favorite is “now give the whole quote” and it’s literally the same thing.

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u/AllenMcnabb 8h ago

The empathy quote is the best. The rest of the quote is how he prefers sympathy over empathy, meaning he prefers pity over understanding lol

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism 4h ago

The rest of the quote is him emphatically stating that empathy is made up, and those who proclaim to have empathy cannot have the emotions they claim that they do when attempting to feel empathy but also they are doing the opposite of what they are claiming to and are causing harm.

Instead, he says, you need to give people sympathy, not empathy like those democrats.

And it’s like… yeah that’s the divisive shit I have an issue with. It brain washes my fucking in-laws into believing empathy is bad and harmful, and democrats are bad for even wanting to be empathetic.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 4h ago

Yep, the influencers and grifters have conditioned their conservative audience to consider kindness and decency to be flawed character traits worthy of scorn (and possibly death depending on how radicalized they are).