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lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read" (lemmy.cafe)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

based and i adore people who are like you

it does tend to be a good litmus test for disempathy, sadly. obviously there are outliers, but if one can’t take a tiny correction to like 0.01% of their vocabulary, color me not surprised when that same person starts talking about the immigrant problem or women’s place in the home or something :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My guy still thinks bigotry is caused by lack of empathy. It's actually selective empathy that helps encourage bigots.