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>Like, that is an extremely unpopular, borderline heretical opinion already in the west. Not these days, or at least not in the US. With all the federal cuts h
by LiquidSky 1y ago
>Like, that is an extremely unpopular, borderline heretical opinion already in the west.
Not these days, or at least not in the US. With all the federal cuts has come more public acceptance of openly deploring empathy for people not in your immediate circle. Witness, e.g., Vice President's Vance's widely-discussed comments on the "ordo amoris". Tribalism of this kind is somewhat in vogue. And, more generally, in the rightwing media ecosystem the idea that kindness or empathy is a kind of weakness to be disdained has been bubbling for a long time.
All that is to say, Musk seems like someone who genuinely believes empathy is a problem in general. The way he runs his companies, treats his worker, his own children (the ones he bothers to even be around, anyway), nothing comes across as the behavior of a man who sees any value in empathy for others.
So, to conclude, I think even he knows how distasteful his true views are to most people and so is couching them in terms that are as far as the current climate will let him go in public.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoOkay what percent of people in America do you think aren’t offended by the statement “empathy towards foreigners is bad”? I try hard to understand the perspective of everyone along the entire political spectrum, all the way out to the farest of the far right. People who actually want to roll back the immigration and refugee policies to say the 1950s are like less than 5% of the population at most. Most people on the right are still offended by that statement.