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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #855 on: May 06, 2017, 02:59:37 am »
...Could you give that email to some media (or Democrat party) so that they can call them on their bullshit?

Everyone copy this link:

http://forums.fstdt.net/index.php?topic=7082.msg308027#msg308027

...and post it on whatever social media accounts you have tagging whatever media/politicians you can think of, maybe?
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #856 on: May 06, 2017, 03:29:13 am »
Sure, where could I send it, though?
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #857 on: May 06, 2017, 03:46:35 am »
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447365/jimmy-kimmel-baby-son-health-care-empathy.

I'm DONE. Fuck. This.


The headline is "The Dangers of Empathy"




The DANGERS of EMPATHY. What the FUCK.




Direct quote. "Adolf Hitler was a master of empathy — for ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland, Austria, and elsewhere. The cause of nationalist empathy for the German tribe triggered profound moral blindness for the plight, and even the humanity, of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs."
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« Reply #858 on: May 06, 2017, 04:30:02 am »
Note how after comparing Kimmel to Hitler and BLM movement (because both are bad mkay?) he complains that using this kind of emotional appeal is bad because it prevents people from having a rational conversation...

Also note how the writer seems to think that people in USA would not feel sympathy towards asians if they were in danger while they would naturally feel sympathy for British...

a) That is in very real way racist.

b) Not everyone in USA is of British descent.

EDIT: also the writer either is either deliberately misleading or doesn't know that poor people exist. He implies that babies can always use the insurance of their parents... What if the parents can't afford an insurance? And wasn't that the entire point in Kimmel's monologue? Just because the parents are poor we shouldn't let kids, babies, die when we can easily avoid it.
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« Reply #859 on: May 06, 2017, 12:05:52 pm »
His definition of empathy is also wrong.
"Empathy is the ability to feel what someone else is feeling."
No, it's the ability to recognise what someone else is feeling.

Then later he changes the definition: “If you feel bad for someone who is bored, that’s sympathy,” writes Yale psychologist Paul Bloom in his brave and brilliant new book, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, “but if you feel bored, that’s empathy.”
What a bullshit is that?

Also, if someone has more sympathy for Palestinians than Israelis, it's bad.
If an American has more sympathy for English people than Asians, it's good.
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« Reply #860 on: May 06, 2017, 12:13:03 pm »
Sure, where could I send it, though?

Sanders and Warren for politicians (maybe a few others like Franken). Whatever left-leaning independent media you can think of, for media.
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #861 on: May 06, 2017, 12:30:55 pm »
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447365/jimmy-kimmel-baby-son-health-care-empathy.

I'm DONE. Fuck. This.


The headline is "The Dangers of Empathy"




The DANGERS of EMPATHY. What the FUCK.




Direct quote. "Adolf Hitler was a master of empathy — for ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland, Austria, and elsewhere. The cause of nationalist empathy for the German tribe triggered profound moral blindness for the plight, and even the humanity, of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs."

Well the article was written by Jonah Goldberg, so there's your explanation for why it's shit.
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #862 on: May 06, 2017, 01:55:13 pm »
Okay I can sort of see the argument that a sob story can cloud reason, but the spotlighting "our people" bit makes no sense whatsoever.   The problems that come from say Jews only having empathy for Israelis and Muslims only for Palestinians are due to a lack of empathy.  The problem isn't feeling for our people, it's not having empathy for the enemy.

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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #863 on: May 10, 2017, 01:40:13 am »
http://foreignlanguagestudyoptions.blogspot.fi/2011/04/why-not-to-study-spanish.html?m=1

Let's see, we have claims that anyone speaking Spanish is stupid. Like literally claims that nations where people speak Spanish people have lower IQs. And that special type of racism where everyone should stick to their own group and avoid any kinds of mixing.

Oddly enough he says that people with ancestors who spoke Spanish SHOULD learn Spanish because ancestry trumps everything else. So at least he is a consistent kind of racist.

Can't be bothered to point out all his mistakes because there's just so many. Like right from the start:
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1. Very little of value has been written in Spanish. On the typical occidental Great Books reading list, only one piece of literature, Don Quixote, makes the cut. Minor languages, like Icelandic or Gaelic, have produced more enduring works of literature.

I am going to guess that he hasn't even tried to read important Spanish scientific or literary works.
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #864 on: May 10, 2017, 02:21:11 am »
http://foreignlanguagestudyoptions.blogspot.fi/2011/04/why-not-to-study-spanish.html?m=1

Let's see, we have claims that anyone speaking Spanish is stupid. Like literally claims that nations where people speak Spanish people have lower IQs. And that special type of racism where everyone should stick to their own group and avoid any kinds of mixing.

Oddly enough he says that people with ancestors who spoke Spanish SHOULD learn Spanish because ancestry trumps everything else. So at least he is a consistent kind of racist.

Can't be bothered to point out all his mistakes because there's just so many. Like right from the start:
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1. Very little of value has been written in Spanish. On the typical occidental Great Books reading list, only one piece of literature, Don Quixote, makes the cut. Minor languages, like Icelandic or Gaelic, have produced more enduring works of literature.

I am going to guess that he hasn't even tried to read important Spanish scientific or literary works.

Points 5 and 7 are very telling. Clearly racist.

Why does he mention Hebrew of all things in point 2?
Ah, he wants to say they're even worse than the jews. Asshole.
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #865 on: May 10, 2017, 05:52:03 pm »
http://foreignlanguagestudyoptions.blogspot.fi/2011/04/why-not-to-study-spanish.html?m=1

Let's see, we have claims that anyone speaking Spanish is stupid. Like literally claims that nations where people speak Spanish people have lower IQs. And that special type of racism where everyone should stick to their own group and avoid any kinds of mixing.

Oddly enough he says that people with ancestors who spoke Spanish SHOULD learn Spanish because ancestry trumps everything else. So at least he is a consistent kind of racist.

Can't be bothered to point out all his mistakes because there's just so many. Like right from the start:
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1. Very little of value has been written in Spanish. On the typical occidental Great Books reading list, only one piece of literature, Don Quixote, makes the cut. Minor languages, like Icelandic or Gaelic, have produced more enduring works of literature.

I am going to guess that he hasn't even tried to read important Spanish scientific or literary works.

...Spanish has the second-most number of native speakers and the fourth-most number of total speakers of all languages. That seems like a relevant fact completely omitted by this list.

(nah, of course it's not relevant, this is a list compiled for people for whom language learning is a status move and not a tool for communicating with other human beings)

gonna bet I have a higher IQ than the author. not that I'm taking it personally or anything
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #866 on: May 11, 2017, 08:19:29 am »
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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #867 on: May 13, 2017, 10:11:46 pm »
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/6auaey/anne_frank_memorial_in_idaho_vandalized/

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Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #868 on: May 14, 2017, 03:34:06 am »
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/6auaey/anne_frank_memorial_in_idaho_vandalized/

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Seeing this kind of comments in the Internet make me wonder: is this type of vegan mainly an American phenomenon? When I studied ethnology many of my fellow students were vegans (the subject attracts a lot of hippie types) but I never heard any of them preaching to me or other omnivores. It's interesting to see how much of an issue it is elsewhere but I don't know how large my bubble is where people treat each other with respect no matter their choice of diet.

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« Reply #869 on: May 14, 2017, 06:15:12 am »
Probably.  America leads the world when it comes to petty pricks.
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