In this post I accused Charlie Kirk of being politically corrupt; after all he stands accused of spreading COVID-19 misinformation, supporting the white genocide conspiracy theory and promoting false claims of electoral fraud in 2020.... in comparison there were little in the way of claims of electoral fraud when the Democrats lost to Trump in 2024... it was a genuine win for Trump; I heard no one claim the win was a fraud, When I saw the quotes below from Kirk it looked to me the man was cognitively corrupt as well...
At first I wondered if these quotes were mischief making by anti-Kirk commentators, but they are all over the internet with no contradiction.
Having no knowledge of the "new age" in the early 1970s I was using the term "empathy" to explain the process by which one center of conscious cognition projects its feelings into another first person perspective. That was before the New Age become a noticeable popularist movement. The word "compassion" is not disconnected from "empathy"; compassion makes no sense if we don't have the initial basis of empathy which enables us to identify one another as centers of conscious cognition. In the above quotes Kirk is mindlessly playing with words which chime with his supporting constituency.
Computer game players have no compassion about the simulated foes they shoot-up in their games: That's because no empathetic projection of consciousness need be made toward a simulant no matter how intelligently that simulant acts. Kirk was well out of line in saying what he did and was virtue signaling to his constituency who may classify empathetic parties as "snow flakes" and "social justice warriors".
Here's Hannah Arendt using the term "empathy" well before Kirk was born. But she would probably be written off by the Trumpite-right as a communist social justice warrior.
Finally seeing the picture below was no surprise. The irony is that Musk and Kirk only add fuel to the fire of those far-left revolutionary Marxists whose case will look stronger in the shadow of Musk and Kirk. Worst of all, Kirk has help bring Christianity into disrepute.
