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I think it directly addressed the point re. empathy in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905286, and was no m

• dang 10y ago
  It's the generic ideological talking point that's the problem. Those only ever lead to generic tangents, which are the wrong kind of tangent—plus usually flamewars.
  • wtbob 10y ago
    Thank you for responding; I do appreciate that. Isn't '"People in the cities" (who tend to be strongly left-leaning) literally want to give money to the less well-off people in rural areas to help support them. It's the right-leaning candidates who are opposed to wealth redistribution. Who is missing empathy for whom? From my perspective, the fiscal conservatives from the rural areas have relatively less empathy than vice versa.' exactly as much of an generic ideological talking point? It certainly led to a lot of heated discussion, e.g. the top-rated comment in that thread, which stated in part 'If anything I'd say there's a lot of disgust with how many rural Americans live off the system.'