He was a bad person, but the full quote should still be presented.
“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. That’s a separate topic for a different time.”
It’s curious that a master debater would put forth the notion that empathy is a “made-up” or “new age” term. But that’s assuming this guy was ever “debating” in good faith.
By the way, “new age” is frequently a term that I’ve seen the hard right xtianists toss around. Seems to be a way of in-group signaling that xtianists like to use, especially in mixed company or when they don’t want to scare away people they are trying to red-pill. Behind closed doors, they’d rather go hard and just say it’s witchcraft or occultism, etc. But they seem to be constantly worried about their pure xtian America is getting infected by new age stuff…
He was a bad person, but the full quote should still be presented.
“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. That’s a separate topic for a different time.”
It’s curious that a master debater would put forth the notion that empathy is a “made-up” or “new age” term. But that’s assuming this guy was ever “debating” in good faith.
By the way, “new age” is frequently a term that I’ve seen the hard right xtianists toss around. Seems to be a way of in-group signaling that xtianists like to use, especially in mixed company or when they don’t want to scare away people they are trying to red-pill. Behind closed doors, they’d rather go hard and just say it’s witchcraft or occultism, etc. But they seem to be constantly worried about their pure xtian America is getting infected by new age stuff…