Sometimes if I peek into “liberal only” spaces and peek into “conservative only” spaces (or anything similar), I see two vastly different worlds with different concerns and motivations.
It has been suggested that liberals tend to be more motivated by empathy (SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals), and on the surface, this anecdotally usually seems true to me whether I’m listening to table chatter, reading forums, or anything of the sort.
For instance, yeah, just looking at threads here there is a lot of “Trump is not good” and “I’m concerned about the state of the country” type posts, which is fine, but I also see concern about poverty, access to medical care, living wages all within the first page.
I don’t see the same kinds of concerns “next door.” I see stuff like “I want to impose my values onto people that aren’t hurting anybody (e.g., homosexuals)” and things like that. (There was one obvious post I saw celebrating lower drug prices, so, credit where due).
It would be unfair to characterize liberals as completely motivated by empathy and conservatives as motivated by tradition (or whatever they might want to call it), but how fair, or conversely how biased, is it to sort of buy into this as something that’s at least marginally true: empathy probably predicts your politics?
It has been suggested that liberals tend to be more motivated by empathy (SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals), and on the surface, this anecdotally usually seems true to me whether I’m listening to table chatter, reading forums, or anything of the sort.
For instance, yeah, just looking at threads here there is a lot of “Trump is not good” and “I’m concerned about the state of the country” type posts, which is fine, but I also see concern about poverty, access to medical care, living wages all within the first page.
I don’t see the same kinds of concerns “next door.” I see stuff like “I want to impose my values onto people that aren’t hurting anybody (e.g., homosexuals)” and things like that. (There was one obvious post I saw celebrating lower drug prices, so, credit where due).
It would be unfair to characterize liberals as completely motivated by empathy and conservatives as motivated by tradition (or whatever they might want to call it), but how fair, or conversely how biased, is it to sort of buy into this as something that’s at least marginally true: empathy probably predicts your politics?