"But more recently, I've noticed that there are meaningful differences in the flavors of different examples. As a shorthand, I distinguish between "tribal empathy" and "universal empathy"."
Yeah, I'm not even sure that I'd describe the rush to be kind to one group as empathy. I think it's exceedingly self-serving in nature. It's the same …
"But more recently, I've noticed that there are meaningful differences in the flavors of different examples. As a shorthand, I distinguish between "tribal empathy" and "universal empathy"."
Yeah, I'm not even sure that I'd describe the rush to be kind to one group as empathy. I think it's exceedingly self-serving in nature. It's the same kind of thing that leads people to lie when asked "Does my bum look big in this?"
There's a calculation taking place of "what will be the fallout if I give the 'honest (but "wrong")' vs 'affirming (but false)' answer?" And right now, without a doubt, the easiest thing to do is affirm all the insanity. After all, sticking your head above the parapet and saying what you really think will almost certainly have meaningful social consequences and may well affect your employment.
Whereas, even amongst women, most of them aren't athletes or in prison, and rates of sexual assault in bathrooms and changing rooms are low enough that they can afford to roll the dice.
Most people have bought into the oft-repeated lie that any pushback on trans issues is born out of hatred. And because they aren't aware of the implications of self-ID, they just go along with the dogma. There was a BBC poll that laid this out quite well recently (https://comresglobal.com/polls/bbc-scotland-gender-recognition-act-poll-17-february/).
Baseline support for trans people was high, as you'd expect, but that changed when it came to issues like whether males should compete with females in sport or males being housed with females, the numbers were very different.
"But more recently, I've noticed that there are meaningful differences in the flavors of different examples. As a shorthand, I distinguish between "tribal empathy" and "universal empathy"."
Yeah, I'm not even sure that I'd describe the rush to be kind to one group as empathy. I think it's exceedingly self-serving in nature. It's the same kind of thing that leads people to lie when asked "Does my bum look big in this?"
There's a calculation taking place of "what will be the fallout if I give the 'honest (but "wrong")' vs 'affirming (but false)' answer?" And right now, without a doubt, the easiest thing to do is affirm all the insanity. After all, sticking your head above the parapet and saying what you really think will almost certainly have meaningful social consequences and may well affect your employment.
Whereas, even amongst women, most of them aren't athletes or in prison, and rates of sexual assault in bathrooms and changing rooms are low enough that they can afford to roll the dice.
Most people have bought into the oft-repeated lie that any pushback on trans issues is born out of hatred. And because they aren't aware of the implications of self-ID, they just go along with the dogma. There was a BBC poll that laid this out quite well recently (https://comresglobal.com/polls/bbc-scotland-gender-recognition-act-poll-17-february/).
Baseline support for trans people was high, as you'd expect, but that changed when it came to issues like whether males should compete with females in sport or males being housed with females, the numbers were very different.