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Guess what, there's plenty of people out there - on either side - who would be genuinely happy if they got their civil war, their opportunity to replace their dull lives with the Viking-like excitement of slaying enemies.
The rest of us in the middle will, to put it bluntly, very much not enjoy it if they get their wish.
The path to that future is precisely the retarded shit-headedness being displayed around this. Someone shooting him, and then seemingly a horde of people on the internet very freely expressing that not only does that not bother them, the thing that does bother them is the stuff he'd said before he got shot.
So while I think some people would deserve the future they endorse, the rest of us would prefer that future didn't happen.
The ones refusing to empathize only serve to prove him right
What he said: "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."
If he genuinely meant what you wrote, he could have said exactly what you wrote.
Also, context is very important. This empathy quote was not a misstep on his part, it fits the general narrative that he was pushing. So there is not much about it to misunderstand.
He also said “I prefer sympathy”, but you omitted that.
The man was intelligent and very well spoken. I'm sure he made a lot of effort to not say the quiet parts out loud. But if you look at the entirety, the picture is clear. And these snippets of statements that are floating around represent his position correctly. Like this one too for example:
“I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified,’”
But as we later learn, this was of course just a logical statement. Not at all in like of the ever-existing racism in the US.
“Of course there are qualified black and female pilots,” he later added. “But when you socially engineer racial quotas that far outstrip current demographics in a given field—especially one where the lives of passengers are on the line—it is fair to question whether someone receives the job because they’re the best or because they’re politically expedient. Screaming racism doesn’t make the plane land safely.”
The quiet part is you seeming to support it.
Looks like it's from his podcast.