The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.
A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.
“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”
Really?! What the fuck?
Conservatives do no empathize with you. They see empathy as a weakness to exploit. Do not empathize with them unless you’d like to become their next victim.
Empathy is not agreement or defense, it’s understanding. Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.
You can empathize with someone without being exploited by them. I empathize with prisoners suffering in solitary confinement because I consider it inhumane. That doesn’t mean I’m going to allow myself to be attacked by a murderous psychopath without defending myself.
Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.
The only possible way to try to prevent it is to try and talk them down before hand.
I mean, aside from the obvious gun legislation that won’t happen
Or you stop spying how many times people go to toilet and start using the NSA resources to track down and put in prison those people posting in kiwifarms and other terrorist organisations’ forums.
I don’t think ‘random guy from lemmy’ has the power to accomplish that.
You’ve just accidentally said you see empathy as a weakness too