A Lesson in Empathy | Triggers, Slurs and Being a Decent Human Being
Channel: Leah101
Date: 2021-10-14

A Lesson in Empathy | Triggers, Slurs and Being a Decent Human Being. My biggest go-to when protesting injustice and cruelty, especially online, is to have empathy, to be a decent person. I constantly find myself getting angry at the fact that people can’t just empathise with others or try to consider their feelings from their point of view. Too often I hear “but I’m okay with it” or “but I’d be alright if someone treated me like that so I can treat them like that” and that seems to be the extent of many people’s “empathy” or lack thereof. And with recent memes about being an empath, I think people have underestimated just what empathy is, how amazing of a skill it is to be empathetic, how to be empathetic and increase your ability to be empathetic to others, and how this can help in social situations. 

In-person, in the heat of the moment, it can be difficult to restrain yourself and think, it can be difficult to automatically empathise if you hear something you disagree with. But online you have that option, you have to go through the effort of typing a response to what someone has said so you have the time to be self-aware enough to think through what you are saying. Of course, I’ll hold my hands up, sometimes this just doesn’t happen. However, I think the lack of effort that people put into being empathetic is the problem – and the reason why is probably because of a lack of understanding. 

Chapters: 
Introduction - 0:00 - 1:39
Ii Empathy Origin - 1:40 - 5:22
Iii Empathy Defined - 5:23 - 18:31
Iiii The Morality of Empathy - 18:32 - 26:14
IIi Trigger Warnings - 26:15 - 37:23
IIii Slurs - 37:24 - 40:35
III Applying Empathy - 40:36 - 44:46
V End - 44:47 - 45:29

References:
Empathy: what is it and why it matters 
- David Howe 
Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives 
- Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie
Empathy – sharing: Perspectives from phenomenology and developmental psychology 
- Dan Zahavi and Philippe Rochat 
KEYWORD 8 Trigger Warnings 
- lynne joyrich 
From the Editor—Sticks and Stones: Trigger Warnings, Microaggressions, and Political Correctness - Susan P. Robbins 
Trigger Warnings From Panic to Data 
- Francesca Laguardia, Venezia Michalsen and Holly Rider-Milkovich 
Currents: Feminist Key Concepts and Controversies Trigger Happy: From Content Warning to Censorship 
- Jack Halberstam 
Brazilian Adolescents' Prosocial Moral Judgment and Behavior: Relations to Sympathy, Perspective Taking, Gender-Role Orientation, and Demographic Characteristics 
- Nancy Eisenberg, Qing Zhou and Silvia Koller


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