‘Step Brothers’ Actor Thinks All Conservatives Lack Empathy?
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You know, if you stand up for human rights, why is that a right or a left thing? Why aren't people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They're human too.
Well guys, I haven't heard this one before. Comedian and actor John C. Reilly says the right doesn't care about human rights or empathy. Let's talk about it.
Yeah, you better. Yeah, you better.
Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe. Today we're going to be reacting to Silver Spoon Hollywood elite actor and comedian John C. Reilly.
What does John C. Reilly say about conservatives and empathy?
You probably know him best from projects like Talladega Nights or Step Brothers. He's been all over the place. Well, now he's on the It's Open podcast with Alana Glazer, and he's talking about how the right wing cares not for human rights and doesn't have empathy, I guess. And I've heard this argument many, many times. I guess it's time we confront it on the show and no better time to do it than in responding to another Hollywood leftist. Shocker. Let's watch.
You know, if you stand up for human rights, why is that a right or a left thing? Why aren't people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They're human too. This whole thing that like kind of has come into vogue of like empathy trap, you know, it's an empathy trap.
Okay, before he gets into what the empathy trap is, let's go ahead and pause there. How many times have you heard a leftist say that the right cares not about human rights? whatsoever. I see these infographics about it. I see the viral tweets about it, the Instagram posts where people say something like, why can't we just agree to disagree? And then the leftist response is, yeah, we can agree to disagree on things like soda and pop music, but we can't disagree on fundamental human rights. And there's this idea that the right just doesn't care at all about human beings whatsoever, that the right has no empathy whatsoever. And what this is, is a fallacy. It's the illusion of moral superiority. It's what these individuals get to do to safeguard themselves from hearing any opinion that isn't exactly their own.
They take the moral high ground and say, I'm simply a person who just cares about human rights and you don't. And if you're functioning on that basis in conversation, why have a conversation with somebody who doesn't care about human rights whatsoever? there would be no need. I shouldn't need to say this, but people on the right do care about human rights and they do have empathy. But let's get back to the clip.
You know, like that's what Elon Musk says, like empathy is like, don't be full of empathy trap. Yes, yes, yes. Stick to your agenda and what's best for you. Holy. Don't start feeling bad for so-and-so. They're on their own thing. Look out for.
Holy mischaracterization. That That's crazy. We need to pause for a second. Don't fall for the empathy trap. What do we think Elon Musk is saying when he says something like that? Is he saying I'm a human being that's completely devoid of empathy whatsoever and I've never felt it in my life? No, what he's saying is your empathy can trick you, can confuse you, can lead you to support certain things that maybe shouldn't be supported and end up impacting people in a negative way. way it's actually him showing his own form of empathy or how he utilizes empathy and in fact before we let john c reilly go on any further let me show you a clip of what elon musk means when he talks about the empathy trap what i see is is what i call shallow empathy like people have empathy for the criminals but not empathy for the victims of the criminals yes
And so if you simply have, and I believe that one should have deep empathy to say like, what is the greater good for society? Is it better to incarcerate violent criminals and prevent them from hurting people or to let them loose and allow those people to be hurt? And I think the latter is much worse.
Okay. Glad we were able to clear that up so quickly. Let's go back to the clip before we dive deeper into what the empathy trap could be, or at least my interpretation of the empathy trap.
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