“Empathy is not endorsement” is pretty clear. All it’s saying is my feeling empathy for a horrible person is not saying that person was right. People have confused my empathy for mourning or support of people with horrific beliefs.
If anything it’s selfish, it’s so I don’t lose my own humanity and accept violent deaths as normal.
Thank you for this Dylan. I've been wrestling with all of this myself, and it's even made me want to take a break from social media for awhile to clear my head a bit, but what you say here resonates a lot. We live in a wild and complicated world and the people in it can be just as wild and complicated, so it's hard to know what to think or what to feel, especially when all our thoughts and feelings are tangled together in a collective digital mess that we can peruse at our leisure.
Maybe stepping back for a minute is healthy in times like this, and maybe in doing that we may recognize that we don't have all the answers, and maybe none of us do, and all any of us can do is try to make the world better in whatever way we can, even if it may seem or feel small, and hopefully you do that just by being you, and I do that by just being me.
Thanks again and best wishes.
PS I miss your podcast and hope you bring it back someday, as maybe we need those kinds of conversations now more than ever.
“Empathy is not endorsement” is pretty clear. All it’s saying is my feeling empathy for a horrible person is not saying that person was right. People have confused my empathy for mourning or support of people with horrific beliefs.
If anything it’s selfish, it’s so I don’t lose my own humanity and accept violent deaths as normal.
Love you, Dylan Marron. Please keep being brave.
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Thank you for this Dylan. I've been wrestling with all of this myself, and it's even made me want to take a break from social media for awhile to clear my head a bit, but what you say here resonates a lot. We live in a wild and complicated world and the people in it can be just as wild and complicated, so it's hard to know what to think or what to feel, especially when all our thoughts and feelings are tangled together in a collective digital mess that we can peruse at our leisure.
Maybe stepping back for a minute is healthy in times like this, and maybe in doing that we may recognize that we don't have all the answers, and maybe none of us do, and all any of us can do is try to make the world better in whatever way we can, even if it may seem or feel small, and hopefully you do that just by being you, and I do that by just being me.
Thanks again and best wishes.
PS I miss your podcast and hope you bring it back someday, as maybe we need those kinds of conversations now more than ever.