“Uplifting news” that once again hilights the absolutely infuriating conservative psychology of “I give absolutely zero fucks about this topic until and unless it affects me personally”.
I am glad the dude changed his ways, don’t get me wrong, but fuck me if it isn’t depressing to consider that this behavior pattern is absolute cancer, and really hard to work constructively with on a societal scale.
I've come to the conclusion that conservatives are just people whose sense of empathy is broken. Over and over I hear about conservatives who held bigoted beliefs and only changed their minds when confronted by someone they love becoming the target of other people's identical bigoted beliefs. These people just can't empathize enough to think "what if it was my child/spouse/friend?"
It shouldn't take until your own flesh and blood is affected to care about other people.
And part of the problem is that for so many even that isn't enough.
Classic Conservative. All feelings of empathy begin and end at himself.
Doesn't give a shit until it personally impacts them.
It was fine when it was someone else’s kid, though. You should be able to feel this outrage when it happens to anyone, anywhere. But that’s seldom how it goes.
Unfortunately we can never personally experience everyone's situation which is why empathy is important, and seems to be sorely lacking in a lot of people.
You know Lemmy has suitably replaced reddit when every 'uplifting' news story is really more of an illustration of our illustrious American hellscape.
How is this uplifting news? Same old story, they hate until it effects them, then suddenly "things are different". Yes this is slightly better than him always being a bigot, but honestly, f*** this guys lack of sympathy to start with.
This is exactly how politicians work. It's not an issue until it effects them personally, then the law gets changed.
This isn't uplifting news, this is orphan crushing machine
It's always until it effects them personally.
“Uplifting”
If your first instinct is to condemn this man for what he used to believe I would urge you to think about how we would ever go about affecting change without people like this who believe one thing, then see the error of their ways and change their mind. Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
parenting hypocrisy. people shouldn't need an offspring to have a working brain.
Lots of people saying this isn't uplifting enough. If this was my dad, I'd feel a lot more than just uplifted.
The more people who come around to reason, the more people will be exposed by proxy to a healthy perspective. This is absolutely uplifting, even if it's tragic we are in this place to begin with.
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