InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 22 days ago"Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God."imagemessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1129arrow-down1image"Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God."InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square35linkfedilinkfile-text
https://religionnews.com/2026/10/20/an-empathy-gap-divides-americans-ahead-of-the-midterms-say-prri-report/
minus-squareJimLarkin [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·22 days agoWhy would someone even ask such a bizarre question? Who came up with this notion?
minus-squarekisstrel [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up66·22 days agoBelieve it or not Republicans have been talking about empathy being a weakness for some time now, in their churches and bro podcasts and blogs https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-christian-battle-grows-over-whether-empathy-is-virtue-or-weakness-as-the-u-s-diversifies/ar-AA1RqIND https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5321299/how-empathy-came-to-be-seen-as-a-weakness-in-conservative-circles https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/toxic-empathy-weakness/683355/ https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/07/23/how-the-american-right-came-to-hate-empathy
minus-squareJimLarkin [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·22 days agoJesus Christ.
Why would someone even ask such a bizarre question? Who came up with this notion?
Believe it or not Republicans have been talking about empathy being a weakness for some time now, in their churches and bro podcasts and blogs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-christian-battle-grows-over-whether-empathy-is-virtue-or-weakness-as-the-u-s-diversifies/ar-AA1RqIND
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5321299/how-empathy-came-to-be-seen-as-a-weakness-in-conservative-circles
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/toxic-empathy-weakness/683355/
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/07/23/how-the-american-right-came-to-hate-empathy
Jesus Christ.