• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    No, she’s special, unlike those other lazy libruls.

    I personally know, or knew (I stopped talking to him) a guy who was on welfare for 10+ years, but always ranted loudly about people on welfare being freeloaders. Their situation is always special in their minds, unlike all those other lazy moochers.

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      3 days ago

      Conservatism is correlated with a complete lack of empathy. They have trouble understanding other people are sentient beings, let alone equally deserving of freedom. Any problem that doesn’t affect them is just a lie made up by evil Others to take away what they rightly deserve, which is everything.

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        3 days ago

        Not sure if its the same study that we’re talking about here, but there was a study done on conservatives and (neo)liberals empathy levels towards others during the covid pandemic’s initial onset, one of the works it cited as supporting evidence looked into political biases in relation to empathy in 2010, and while those classified as liberals (not remembering how they defined liberal for the paper, will have to find my citation & check later) more often attributed external factors to people’s suffering (someone is poor because they suffer from bigotry based discrimination), conservatives almost universally attributed personal factors to those same people’s suffering (someone is poor because they use drugs) UNLESS that person was listed as conservative in which case they were more likely to attribute it to an external factor.

        They do have empathy, just only for those who are also conservative.

        Interestingly, if I’m recalling which paper it was correctly, jordan b peterson (who is now a right wing influencer) actually contributed to it, this was BEFORE he started appearing in right wing circles and was while he was still someone who would be considered respectable

        IMPORTANT: I’ll have to find my statistics notes to back this up, so for now, please take this with a heavy grain of salt