I know so many people who adamantly stand by their use of it. I used to say it, too, but all it took was one person to point out to me that it was hurtful and I apologised and stopped no questions asked. I don't get why it's so hard to just have a little empathy.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 21 points 5 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 :(

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 months ago

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