JaroslawKopanski

[Stanisław Żerko @StZerko]

Wszyscy normalni i przyzwoici ludzie to dla nich "ekstrema prawicowa", upominająca się o krzywdę dziecka. Dwójka bogatych pederastów chce bowiem zaspokoić swą zachciankę w postaci np. tulenia się do dziecka, więc opłaciła dwie kobiety. A jak już przestaną być parą, gdzie oddadzą skrzywdzone psychicznie dziecko?

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@pietruszkanatki Obok pewnie siedziba Polbruku.

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@lalakowska @donaldtusk

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."

Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."

I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.

The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.

Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.

Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.

Where does it come from? Four layers.

First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.

Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.

Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.

Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.

The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.

Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.

On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.

But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.

This is where men have a responsibility.

Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.

Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.

That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.

Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.

A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.

Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.

Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@Dekantacja @sekcjaurlopowa @PaweK59910825 W sumie to sum.

[Radosław Fogiel @radekfogiel]

No nie wiem...

[Stanisław Żerko @StZerko]

W 2022 Tusk, gratulując Macronowi zwycięstwa, pisał na Twitterze, że ma nadzieję, iż wkrótce będziemy mieli Paryż w Warszawie.

[Krzysztof Luft🇵🇱🇪🇺 @KrzyLuft]

@samuelpereira @BMikolajewska @tvp_info @EKOlodziejczak_ @OSCE @osce_odihr Każdego, byle nie @EKOlodziejczak_ - aż tak się go boicie?

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇱🇹 @d_foubert]

The great apostle of tolerance slept with his niece, speculated on wars, and invested money in enterprises directly tied to colonial commerce and the slave trade.

At around fifty, while still living with Émilie du Châtelet, Voltaire began an affair with his own niece, Marie-Louise Denis, then a widow. The relationship was sexual and is documented in their correspondence.

Voltaire was not merely a philosopher. He was also an extremely skilled speculator. He exploited a flaw in a French public lottery with associates and made a considerable fortune. He then invested in military supplies, government debt, international trade, and colonial ventures. His intellectual independence rested in part on a very simple fact: he became extremely rich.

And that fortune touched directly on a world that sits uneasily with the schoolbook image of the defender of humanity.

Voltaire owned shares in the French East India Company, which was involved in the slave trade, and invested in Atlantic commercial ventures. He also had a financial stake in the voyage of the San Jorge, a ship that carried hundreds of enslaved Africans from the coast of Guinea to Buenos Aires.

What makes this even more striking is that he was simultaneously capable of writing powerful denunciations of slavery.

In other words, the author of Candide could condemn the human price of European sugar while having financial interests in the colonial system that produced it.

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@marian_baczal @_amilano Jak nie to możemy go pohejtować.

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@RysiekzMisia2 @QwertyMarcin7 Hehe

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@Wojtek64968985 RIP.

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@GotfrydKarol @d_foubert Five Star Wars

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@grzegorz_kul @BAleksowska @barbaraanowacka Gowno wie i gowno widzi

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@EmiRosz 👏

[JaroslawKopanski @jarkopanski]

@WojciechMucha @MartaLokje 90% ludzi w ogóle nie wie co to jest AWS i o co w tych przepychankach chodzi. Pokrzykiwania prawicy, że coś jest niekonstytucyjne zbywane są przez wyborców chłodnym uśmieszkiem pana Fułka.

[Bogdan KOPYTO 🇵🇱✝️👊 #PociągPrawych @BKopyto]

@BeMarcin Syn w 7 klasie, klasa sportowa, profil MMA, w zeszły piątek po dwóch godzinach sparingów w ramach WF, chłopaki głodne jak lwy - a na obiad wegańskie łososie z arbuza z przepisu Kasi z Kwiatu Jabłoni.
Jutro idę na rozmowę z dyrekcją. Jak trzeba będzie, to przypierdole..

[Bogdan KOPYTO 🇵🇱✝️👊 #PociągPrawych @BKopyto]

@Bart_Wielinski Niestety ale zawiodło work life balance. Fakap w delivery to nie powód do aż takiego upsetu, chociaż sabbatical leave może być tu niezbędny do pełnego recovery.

[John Bingham @MrJohnBingham]

Przy okazji niedawnego wątku o fragmencie afery Oleksego/Olina, który cieszył się sporym zainteresowaniem, kilka osób pytało mnie o Mariana Zacharskiego. No cóż. Tylko prawda jest ciekawa. Jedziemy:

[Stanisław Żerko @StZerko]

Jak Wam idzie?