I find a soft warm voice saying "I just hope everyone's ok", when it's really really screamingly obvious that some people aren't, to be obnoxious in the extreme.
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I'll tell you what I find obnoxious, meeting an expression of empathy with hostility and condemnation because you've gone too long without touching grass. check yourself
oh its empty is it? well you sure sound like the lord and master of who is genuine and who isn't. you dont at all sound like a hot head who is addicted to getting angry at people online.
I'm really not either. Lookit, if you were sleeping rough and you'd just had the shit kicked out of you by passing racists, would you find it empathic if someone said "I hope you're ok?" (Rather than "That shouldn't have happened, how can I help?")To express empathy you have to acknowledge harm.
Maybe what Boopsie MEANT was "I am sad and concerned for everyone who is suffering as a result of this situation". If they had said that a hostile response would have been totally inappropriate. But what they SAID was quite different, and dismissed harm rather than expressing real empathy.
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Maybe asking yourself if speaking to people the way you spoke to this person is helpful would be better
Youre not helping youre being self righteous
Same goes for Garron Noonan. I see no good reason to attribute malice to ignorance in either case. Whereas you seem to jump at the opportunity.
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