Stan Kassius

[Stan Kassius @jkamlonz]

@AmiHorowitz @realDailyWire @benshapiro @cartierfamilyZ

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

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@RandPaul This is a mandate from We the People!

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@RNCResearch Mark Warner is a lying fool. I’m glad the host fact-checked him in real time.

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@elonmusk Well damn, that went hard.

[Federalist Society @FedSoc]

One vote stood between America and independence. The man who had to cast it was 80 miles away, battling cancer, as a violent thunderstorm raged. His name was Caesar Rodney.

A lesser-known founder of the American Revolution, Rodney rode overnight on horseback from Delaware to Philadelphia, arriving just in time to cast the deciding vote for independence and sign the Declaration of Independence. 🇺🇲

[Stan Kassius @jkamlonz]

@__0HOUR1_ Maybe she was on her period and emotionally unstable during the decision-making process.

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@LangmanVince -10

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@ProudElephant Traitors!

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@michaeljknowles Make it make sense. SMH. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@johncocozza @joeroganhq Not to mention the fact she keep smirking like she’s making good points or something. She looks and sounds foolish.

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@RepNancyMace Ilhan is so scared of We the People, that she disables comments on her X account.

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@nicksortor SCOTUS screwed over the American people today. Shame on them

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@OperaStrange @tfpsa Romans 1

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@timkaine How about yall get rid of the gas tax. It’s all performative, people. The Democrat-majority Virginia General Assembly controls the state gas tax. Virginia’s gas tax is 32.6 ¢/gallon right now!

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@Texas68Landon @GovernorVA Her ridiculous gas tax

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@TMZ This headline from TMZ has got to be a joke.

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@VA_GOP She didn’t even spell “Virginia” correctly. Taking after Jay “2-bullet” Jones with the misspelling of words, I see. 🥴

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@NickJFreitas @timkaine Sen. Kaine is the same guy who claimed our rights didn’t come from God. SMH!

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