And hell, right wingers told us this in the weeks prior to this murder, when they repeatedly and aggressively made fun of the concept of empathy. [...] Empathy: The quality that Dr. Tiller had in spades. No wonder he was public enemy number one to so many conservatives,… *
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/2 @ 12:20 am #
*headdesk*
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/2 @ 12:22 am #
unless you were a pesky baby.
Comment by tsotha on 6/2 @ 12:38 am #
If he had a mote of empathy he couldn’t have done what he did in life.
Comment by JSchuler on 6/2 @ 1:19 am #
Fingers crossed that this thing accepts anchor tags…
Actually, granting that Tiller really did have empathy up and out the wazoo, it makes the point made by John Hasnas all the more powerful. Tiller’s empathy for women who didn’t want their pregnancies crowded out any room for compassion for the unseen.
h/t Betsy Newmark
Comment by Carin on 6/2 @ 4:36 am #
I see they’ve made up a new term. “Anti-Choice Terrorism.” Bravo.
Comment by Carin on 6/2 @ 4:37 am #
Don’t they know the terrorist was driven to it by all the abortions? The abortionists are all “Little Eichmanns.”
Comment by Salt Lick on 6/2 @ 4:50 am #
If he had a mote of empathy he couldn’t have done what he did in life.
“Then — oh Jesus Christ, Stingo, he actually embraced me again and I heard him say, ‘Sophie, Sophie, certainly you may see your little boy.’ He said, ‘Do you think I could deny you that? Glaubst du, dass ich ein Ungeheuer bin? Do you think I am some kind of monster?’”
“Sophie’s Choice”
Comment by B Moe on 6/2 @ 5:07 am #
Maybe you guys should do giant paper mache fetuses telling people their sad little stories, so Emily can better get in touch with her feelings.
Comment by serr8d on 6/2 @ 5:09 am #
Leftist Terrorism.
Where’s the Left’s empathy for our soldiers?
Comment by Carin on 6/2 @ 5:10 am #
I see, it’s a selective empathy. I’m thinking that Emily doesn’t really “get” this empathy concept. It’s sound more like she knows how to ACT empathetic. In their little world, there is no difference.
Comment by Carin on 6/2 @ 5:16 am #
Mandy is so intellectually dishonest, I wish you wouldn’t give her links.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/2 @ 5:19 am #
Just another convenient star for the usual suspects to tie their cries of Outrage! to…
Tolerance for all!, except, of course, those who disagree with their proscribed points of view…
Empathy for all, except for their poitical opponents, who are to mocked and have death wished upon them…
Freedom of speech for all, except for those that would say what they don’t want to hear…
No discrimination tolerated, except when perpatrated against, and by, the correct people…
Simply another citation in the long list of examples of the hyposrisy and intellectual dishonesty of the left…
Comment by B Moe on 6/2 @ 5:19 am #
You think?
Empathy is all about me. It’s fun and easy.
Comment by B Moe on 6/2 @ 5:20 am #
I think Mandy is just dishonest, I can’t give her credit for anything remotely intellectual, lol.
Comment by serr8d on 6/2 @ 6:18 am #
If you use the tinyurl link tool, g00gle won’t credit that as a link when compiling site stats.
Every little bit taken away helps.
Comment by serr8d on 6/2 @ 6:20 am #
I keep tinyurl close and handy in my Bookmarks toolbar…
Comment by Carin on 6/2 @ 6:22 am #
I didn’t know that serr8d! Thanks.
Comment by SBP on 6/2 @ 6:24 am #
because I’ve never experienced psychopathy or psychosis.
Snicker.
Comment by urthshu on 6/2 @ 6:26 am #
No empathy, hm? OK, I guess I gotta go quit saving lives at my suicide counselin’ job so’s you can kill more babies.
Comment by SBP on 6/2 @ 6:27 am #
repeatedly and aggressively made fun of the concept of empathy
Actually, right now I’m making fun of the concepts of illiteracy and inability to understand sarcasm.
Comment by Joe on 6/2 @ 7:42 am #
Sullivan does not realize he is just as bombastic and insufferable as O’Reilly…
just shorter, more contemptable, and mendacious. Loofah anyone?
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 8:24 am #
Isn’t Emily’s idea of empathy a lot like Barcky’s idea of working with political opponents, insofar as he gives them the idea that he has heard them out, and listened to their ideas?
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 8:26 am #
Emily, you ignorant self-absorbed slut, empathy is not all about you.
Comment by geoffb on 6/2 @ 8:53 am #
To us yes. To them however no. It comes with the idea that some people are are simply more human than others.
The entire intellectual basis for slavery has never been purged from the Democrats. That left them vulnerable to it’s reemergence, it’s resurrection under a new name and form. It changed flavors to the latest and greatest version.
For the past hundred years State slavery has been all the rage. Much more efficient and complete. Shiny! New! Improved! but still tyranny.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/2 @ 10:21 am #
Yep. They are dedicated to forcing one man to work to another man’s benefit. They’ve taken to couching it in terms of “helping the needy”, but expect us not to see that where ever they get their way, those in need get more needy while those in power get richer.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 6/2 @ 1:27 pm #
Well, maybe they’ll take some sort of terrorism seriously.
We should quickly find the next GOP President to be, who is eight years old now, and have him make friends with the shooter. I’m not sure what good this might do us, other than the delicious symmetry of the whole thing.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 6/2 @ 1:36 pm #
I mean to add, that the funny thing about empathy is that it’s only really worth something if you extend it to people you don’t naturally like or admire.
It’s also kind of hard to identify what Tiller did as “empathy,” since “empathy” doesn’t ordinarily provide you with a Jaguar S-type and a summer home, as the remuneration for services one may provide in a profession, trade, or business ordinarily do.
Comment by Asymmetric Polyhedron (formerly mojo) on 6/2 @ 3:40 pm #
The way I see it, if you folks want to kill your unborn children it’s no skin off my nose. Knock yourselves out.
Less competition for my kids.
Comment by Pablo on 6/3 @ 6:26 am #
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