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Topic: The right should focus more on virtue signalling empathy
Anonymous A started this discussion 12 hours ago#135,562
In debates, the right generally understands leftists positions, and rejects them. The left generally does not understand right-wing positions, and strawmans them.
If both sides were asked to give the other side's position, it would reveal whether they even know it. If you can't do it, that reveals you never bothered to listen in the first place (i.e. acting in bad faith) and also that you are not able to compare the two ideas (i.e. you are unable to reject the position, because need to know it to reject it).
Empathy is understanding another person's perspective. The left often doesn't know what the word means, they tend to confuse it with sympathy because the two words sound similar. But it would be good to review what empathy really is and then show that for all these issues the left isn't able to empathize, while the right can.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 hours ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,440,370
I think schools and social media played a role in leftist being really dumbed down thanks to all these debate bros and streamers with an acute Dunning–Kruger effect posting youtube shorts of straw-man clickbaits to be shared with other dumbed down DK'd lefties.
You can't tell them why AA being struck down is a good thing without someone from their camp claiming that "they want minorities to fail!" or somewhere along to that effect, even though technically if you're judging by race at all that in itself is racist regardless of intent.
Empathy would require being aware and cognizant of the other's position but for them they can't afford to do that because that would undermine their core arguments.