THALES: Turning Empathy Into a Weapon, How Social Justice Fights Dirty

Dangerous ^ | 12/20/17 | Thales

[x1stcav]

Social Justice is often driven through shame, through a certain desire to appear moral, righteous, and proper to others. If a truth is unpleasant, if it doesn’t sound good rhetorically, it must be dispensed with for sake of appearances, to avoid being publicly shamed as a bad person.

This is a concept I’ve long referred to as “Weaponized Empathy,” for this is a tactic that uses empathy as a political bludgeon to shame you into compliance with someone else’s agenda. The common pop-culture argument for why women “make 77 cents on the dollar” is that women are being discriminated against. Sexism, misogyny, et. al. If you suggest that women consciously and intentionally make different decisions, and tend to have a lower risk tolerance, it is considered anathema. Rather than investigate whether or not this claim has merit, the SJW rejects it as unpleasant.

Once labeled as unpleasant, it is permissible for the SJW to use Weaponized Empathy to silence debate. If you believe men and women have fundamental differences, you are a sexist. You hate women. You want to oppress women. You lack empathy, they claim.

Oddly enough, this argument doesn’t work on people who actually lack said empathy. If you asked a member of ISIS if he wanted to oppress women, he’d probably answer with “well yes, women need to be oppressed, obviously.” The argument only works on the good-natured person who is horrified at the implication that he might be a woman-oppressor.

[Secret Agent Man]

Who made them judges of the rest of us?

Since when are they the moral consciences of you and me?

Reject their self appointed authority.

[x1stcav]

We have rejected them and that’s driving them batshit.

[Ouderkirk]

The “weaponized empathy” is one of the many tools used in gaslighting.

They use it to convince you that you are the bigot/racist etc.

Fo