So, mainly Chris Hayes and a few others have developed a habit of saying (to the effect of), "if you don't have empathy, you aren't one of us". I am obsessed with the media feud between Fox News and MSNBC. I watched MSNBC full time for a year (that's 40+ hours per week) and started just before Ferguson. Over that year, I was lied to and misled so many times about law that I had to switch to Fox News. That's how I became obsessed with the differences between the two and the arguments they both put forth pro se. I just couldn't take it anymore. And I know that Hillary Clinton is lied for by ALL of her supporters in the media on the legal side of her misdeeds. She was given a special pleading by Comey which will be revoked as soon as possible. Yay.
During the election, I managed to catch All In a few times. Chris had developed a habit of saying 'empathy' in casual conversation as if he were judging someone's ability to have it, but he clearly had no idea what he was talking about. And none of the liberals ever clearly understood their own candidate's lying and lack of remorse to be a red flag concerning her ability to empathize. Also, not caring that your own husband raped the most believable unproven rape victim to ever come forward against a politician in recent decades should be a sign of lacking some empathy.
They get mad when you call a mass shooter a psychopath... but they can't recognize a lack of empathy unless it isn't happening for them in front of their own eyes, but even then, what are they talking about? They just say it as a political slam. They try to socially sanction people into showing/having it. Van Jones did that the other night on one of his emotional rants that don't make any economic sense, e.g. calling the loss a "whitelash" to put it into a race conversation.
I am not a Trump supporter, btw.
13 Nov 2016, 1:29 pm
