I think you may have only met some extraordinarily harmful people or you have read too much of the Internet. Go meet a super strict conservative at the table. Shit, go out and make friendly conversation with a white supremacist. People can have awful beliefs for soooo many reasons but they’re still people with all the feelings you keep trying to deny them.

The phobias you mentioned aren’t really about empathy to begin with - a decade ago, they were about fear. Hence the name. And you haven’t admitted to your false claim of me blaming victims.

Quit demonizing swaths of people based on gross generalizations, dude. You’re adding to the bullshit that hurts us all.

First of all, I never blamed victims.

Secondly, you didn’t call it out for cruelty, you said “they” lack empathy, and “cannot see others as human”.

This is patently false and harmful. Try as you might, they’re not xenomorphs.

That is a gross generalization that contributes to the “us” v “them” idea. Plenty of people see others in the abstract until they are faced with it. And there is a small group of humans who don’t care. Don’t make things worse with this bullshit.

That was an interesting read, thanks

I’d bet it’s more she went the silicon valley route and banked on the tech avenue/public bragging to make money. The others fly under the radar.