IMO he and others like him are attacking the word empathy because they think how it is being taught will make boys act weak, along woth all they believe that leads to.
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Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 day agoThen please explain the quote above.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 23 hours ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
they attack empathy because it inevitably leads to people supporting each other and fighting against fascists.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There’s nothing in the context of this quote or Elon Musk’s that suggests they’re talking about empathy being taught in schools and it making boys weak. In both cases it’s more a response to Democrats using the word a lot in their political speech to try to bring coalitions of people together.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Sociopathy?
kieron115@startrek.website 22 hours ago
That term isn’t really used anymore due to the stigma attached to it. Anti-social personality disorder is the term. It’s also clinically different from NPD.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I knew one girl with Narcissistic Personality Disorder who realized she didn’t have empathy (her words) and specifically stated that she thought developing it would be detrimental. She thought lacking empathy gave her an advantage, straight up. This is actually common among pathological people like that.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Then she too wasn’t using the word correctly. She may have meant the affective portion of it, which she probably didn’t have.