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Posted on 02/06/2026 5:20:02 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
There is a reason some modern political slogans feel impossible to challenge without sounding cruel, un-Christian, or “extreme.” It’s not because they are true. It’s because they are designed to stop you from thinking.
That insight comes from James Lindsay, who recently explained a sloganeering concept most Evangelicals have never heard of but encounter every day: tifa. The word comes from Chinese Communist political strategy and refers to short, emotionally loaded slogans engineered to hijack moral instincts and shut down critical thought.
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Your friend is jobless, cold and hungry.
So you quit your job and sit outside so you can have empathy. You feel what he feels.
The problem is now actually worse because the amount of misery is now doubled.
Great job. Whoopee.
Sympathy is far more logical because it can move you see if you can do something to help him.
I’ll keep your love and your love won’t die,said the spider to the fly.
That’s not what empathy is.
How can you separate a person from the legitimate consequences of their actions?
Only empathy she has is for satan. She wishes she could sympathize...
Ha!
Demon worshipper.
And that is the problem with it. It is all feeling and no action.
Which is why liberals tend to indulge in it so much.
Oh, I kicked a bunch of homeless people off a subway grate so I could spend the night there. I am SO empathetic to their plight now.
(Yes, That actually happened.)
They jaw you do death with their empathy but try to block any attempt to solve the problem because at their point their little virtue signal loses it's market value.
Empathy is when someone can truly say to another “I know what you’re going through”. Ex. someone has lost their home to a fire. If it hasn’t happened to you personally, there’s no way to truly understand.
For left wing slogans, the late great Jan Michaelson on 1040 WHO called them “thought ending clichés”.
Thanks for posting this insightful article.
Lifelong screw up Hillary Clinton always misses the point.
“the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy
Excellent article:
“Christians are not called to be cruel. But we are not called to be manipulable either. The most loving thing the Church can do right now is recover moral clarity and refuse to let empathy be used as a weapon against truth.
If we lose that, we won’t just lose arguments. We will lose our witness. And that is a cost no amount of applause from the world can justify.”
Exactly.
Hillary has no idea what empathy is.
Sociopaths lack empathy.
Fake empathy: “I almost lost my Corvette to a small kitchen fire” while speaking to victims of a firestorm.
“Oh, I kicked a bunch of homeless people off a subway grate so I could spend the night there. I am SO empathetic to their plight now.
(Yes, That actually happened.)”
Back when Rush Limbaugh had his TV show (mid 90’s?), he did a segment on this.
Man, I sure miss Rush.
Me too.
me three
I wish I had thought of that. But of course you nailed it!
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