Empathy and the Right

2 weeks ago, Lindsay Ellis returned to YouTube with a 2h22m long video that uses how the Right treats Ms. Rachel as a springboard to how they look at empathy, compassion and care. If you want to know why so many of us are the way we are when it comes to the political murder of another human being - this is why.

These disgusting people have systematically, and en masse, burned the empathy for them out of us. I still love you all, I still give a shit, and will fight to keep you safe - including taking a bullet myself. I do everything I can to fight and counter violence against my comrades, and will continue to do so.

They've dehumanized themselves to me. Through their rhetoric and action, I consider them 'lesser' - and they apparently want it that way.

As always, at any point, they can choose to change. They can choose to be better. They can stop supporting monstrous thoughts, stop performing monstrous acts, and stop platforming monstrous people.

Until then - they are monsters. They can die like monsters.