Posted on 09/22/2025 7:12:51 AM PDT by Starman417
Charlie Kirk might be one of history's most misquoted, misunderstood and misrepresented persons. People hate him for what others have said he said and not for what he said. People who do that are intellectually slothful. They watch CNN and MSNBC. They won't make the effort to learn the whole truth or understand the context.
Such it is with empathy.
Megan Farina is one such person. She found herself causing a great commotion for comments she posted on TikTok
She had responded to his death in a TikTok insisting her ‘sympathies don’t lie’ with the conservative activist. Instead, she declared that all she could offer Kirk were ‘thoughts and prayers,’ just as she claimed he can only offer after the nation’s frequent school shootings.She caught a barrage of negativity for them and she's unhappy about it.
'We have been traumatized and stripped of our privacy, all because I said Charlie Kirk - who did not believe in empathy himself - did not have mine,' Farina said in the video shared on Friday. 'I think the most ironic thing is that my life and my family's lives have been torn apart over my words on the internet by the very people who support Charlie Kirk and are always yelling the loudest about their first amendment right,' she added.She proved that she neither knew what Charlie said nor understood the greater context. What Charlie said was
He is absolutely right. Empathy is defined as:"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy."
the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situationHow can you possibly know or imagine the feeling of losing a child? I had an aunt who saw three of her four children predecease her. I cannot imagine how that feels.
Think you can know what it's like to have a child die in your arms?
Think you can know what it's like to lose a younger sibling to cancer if you haven't?
Think you can know what it's like to lose a best friend of 40 years to cancer if you haven't?
I do know. You cannot possibly imagine what any of that feels like if you haven't experienced it and hopefully you never will.
But Megan wasn't done yet.
'So yeah, I care about the innocent children, who go to school to learn, to get an education, who are children, minors, who are senselessly gunned down at school. For doing nothing. For wanting to go and learn,' the mother stated.Charlie cared very much about kids
She was wrong about a lot
'I lose my sympathy a little bit when someone uses his entire life and his entire platform to spread racism, hate, bigotry, misogyny, anti-trans, anti-gay rhetoric - I mean everything you can imagine, this man has done,' she added.Listen to Charlie defend gays from a hater for yourself.
Dave Rubin:
Hey @StephenKing, you are more monstrous than any of the characters you ever came up with. Charlie was never anything but kind to me and my husband.
We broke bread many times, and he never treated us with anything other than respect.
He even came to our house not too long ago… pic.twitter.com/Xke77Jr8t3
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 12, 2025
More for you, Megan
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Empathy is jumping into deep water to save a drowning man when you don’t know how to swim or how strong the currents are.
It's Saul Alinsky Time!:
#4 "Make the enemy live up to his own book of rules"
"There should be no pity for the media personalities and academics who are now facing the consequences of their own words. For years they applauded the ruin of conservatives, convinced that the cultural battlefield was theirs to command. Now the ground has shifted. If they find the new rules intolerable, they should reflect on who created them in the first place. Conservatives have simply decided to stop playing by standards that punished only one side."
-- Lipton Matthews, Lessons from the Left
How is this in any way related to New Ageism ? The word has been around for nearly 200 years. Kirk talked a lot about things he knew little or nothing about and sadly in this case it is no different.
That just sounds like two drowning men instead.
Where were these critics when he was around to make them sound silly with his responses?
According to the source below, Empathy came into use in 1908. Sounds as if Kirk was close to reality.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/empathy
Sympathy in the sense of commiserating is from about 1600.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Sympathy
That's the best summation I've heard in a long time!
Saved...to be pasted somewhere later. Thanks for that!
What he clearly meant was that people use the word “empathy” incorrectly so as to increase the touchy-feely impact, when the proper word is “sympathy”.
The fact that the word has been in common use for years is meaningless because bastardization of word meanings to forward an agenda has been a key part of the left's playbook for years.
It's related to New Ageism because it emphasizes feelings over objective truth, symbolism over substance, and virtue signaling over solutions. This bastardized form of empathy is used to manipulate people and villianize others.
Leftists invented “cancel culture”. Now is the time to shove it down their throats.
Well said. Well answered.
Empathy, sure, I don't know exactly how such and such feels (losing a child, etc),
But, I have an imagination, I can put myself in others' shoes, and share their sorrow and misery, and because I believe Jesus is the "Way", and because I have a relationship with Jesus, I can share hope and joy, with other sufferers on this sin-darkened world, and point them to their hope (Jesus) as well.
When Moses asked the Lord to "show me your glory", the Lord said, I will pass my goodness before you.
The Lord's glory is His goodness!
The author's logic fails also on the point of debate, where anyone is guilty of the accusation: you don't really know what it's like!
That logic divides us, to the point where we cease communicating w/ one another.
After all, what's the point? (if no one "really understands").
Please also note: The absolute hallmark of personality disorders - the absolute "tell" - is lack of empathy.
No, empathy is real, and it's very important to healthy, functioning relationships, and healthy, functioning societies.
Empathy exists, at least with older generations. I tend to be very empathic. It’s not a very helpful ability. As one of countless examples: If my wife is angry at something, she doesn’t need her husband to get angry with her. She needs me to have sympathy for her, and to compliment her efforts; unless the solution were to go over and beat the crap out of whoever made her angry, my anger isn’t helpful. Sympathy makes me helpful and helps her know she is loved and helps both of us solve the problem; anger just makes her worried I’m going to get into trouble.
He said he believed in compassion. Compassion was an action. Empathy a feeling.
I agree.
True.
He said he believed in compassion over empathy as compassion was action vs empathy a feeling.
Homosexuality, fornication, adultery and bestiality are all said to be wrong behavior by God. There is no soft way to say it except for not yelling in someone's face or embarrassing a person in front of others. Those who practice such are often willing to kill others who oppose that behavior. Stealing, mugging, assaulting someone that one doesn't like and severe racial/ehtnic/cultural hatred can often produce the same result, death of the victim.
That being said, Christ (sent from God) admonishes Christians NOT to actively seek to kill someone for revenge (Romans 12). That is why there has not been a rash of killings of transgender individuals or anyone else (believe me, they are ALL accessible) who has been rationalizing/defending/supporting the political/religious assassinaton of Charlie Kirk. However all "conservatives" are not totally Biblical. When pushed to a certain point, they WILL snap. If they do, the result will be horrific. Everyone must settle down. If you're doing something wrong, don't kill whomever disagrees with you. Just go on living your life and ignore that person. Those on the "Biblical" side. Let God through the government handle it. He will.
Empaths have a hyperactive mirror neuron system which places them high on the empathy scale. I don’t care what Kirk believed that is an absolute fact.
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