Posted on 12/20/2017 5:18:09 PM PST by 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 doesnt 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 Ive 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 elses 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 doesnt work on people who actually lack said empathy. If you asked a member of ISIS if he wanted to oppress women, hed 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.
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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.
We have rejected them and that’s driving them batshit.
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
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