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I'm talking about style, not substance. I find myself these days having empathy with people and agreeing with what they're protesting for, but hating the fact that they are historically ignorant and are only trying to score twitter points. So that doesn't mean they don't have a right to protest, it just means they're an embarrassment.

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> only trying to score twitter points

"only"? What if that's their main goal? You're still judging them for having values that are different from yours, which is something that comes naturally to anyone. The whole point of learning to have empathy is so you can empathize with people whose values are incompatible with your own. You probably don't even understand their values and take their superficial statements literally because you're too keen to judge them as bad instead of understand their underlying feelings that they may not even be able to articulate themselves.

How the hell is anyone supposed to not judge someone who acts stupidly because they can't articulate their own underlying feelings?

With empathy of course!

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