• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That’s a very fair point. In my mind though, when you put toxic in front of it, you are kinda saying that it isn’t the real thing. But that is kind of a weak modifier.

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      4 days ago

      It is a weak modifier, but I get your point. I just see a lot of people (often without empathy) using it to attack empathetic people. Especially the right wing in a lot of countries, are trying to tarnish good and ethical words, so that you can’t use those against their hate and violent speech and actions.

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        4 days ago

        That was why my last line was something about how the story wasn’t about the same kind of toxic empathy you and I are talking about, so fuck em (as in the people misusing it) I could have written it better for sure.