>>515650973 (OP)
The word "empathy" can have two meanings.
One meaning describes the ability to sense other people's emotions and mental states.
The other meaning describes a sense of compassion and immersion in other people's mental experiences.
These are two very different things.
The best example to describe this is autism. People commonly think autistic individuals "lack empathy", that they have no ability to understand other people's emotions, read them, that they avoid eye contact out of a sense of being antisocial. In fact, it's the complete opposite. People with autism are extremely empathic, they are OVER-sensitive to other people's emotions, they get overwhelmed by them, they avoid eye contact because the experience is very intense and from a young age they intuitively avoid it. Toddlers and young children with autism develop habits that help them manage he overstimulation they are experiencing, and those habits keep them from socially developing like most neurotypical individuals. So people with autism have a very high degree of sensitivity to other people's emotions, but because they shut themselves off to it from a very young age, they never learn to "use" that sensitivity and interpret how other people think and feel.
Both right-wingers and left-wingers have very warped ideas about "empathy" in human beings because they do not know about these different aspects of empathy, or they do not distinguish between them.
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