• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    What is the “I’m an empath” card?

    Are there people who try to make out like they’re Deanna Troi style empaths?

    Or do you just mean people who claim to have particularly strong empathy / be particularly empathetic?

    As an aside, emphasize isn’t related to empathy, and I didn’t think empathize is a word, although my spell-check apparently thinks it is?

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      17 hours ago

      As an empath, I’m really in tune with other people’s emotions, and I cry all the time, so I know that you’re super broken up about not knowing about the empath card - even if you can’t stand to admit it to anyone but me, who’s more in tune with your emotions than you are… Because I’m an empath.

      No shit Susan, getting sad at the commercials for starving children doesn’t make you an empath.

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      17 hours ago

      It was half-facetious, but I think a lot of conservatives hear the word “empathy” and think of means this. (Watch the first 60 seconds and tell me you didn’t cringe.)

      Empathize is a word. It means" to feel or experience empathy", or “to be understanding of”.

      When I say Charlie Kirk was arguing in bad faith, I’m saying he’s he was pretending only the first definition exists and that it sounds like the Jubilee video, when most people use the second definition in real life.

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        15 hours ago

        I think a lot of conservatives hear the word “empathy” and think of means this.

        I think it’s even simpler than that. Certain words just make them go “Are you calling me a nutcase/soyboy??!!” (or sth like along those lines)
        Or the suggestion that therapy is actually a good thing and not a stigma.