I push back on the idea that we “owe” empathy to someone who built a brand on dehumanizing others. Empathy isn’t an automatic refund; it’s a social contract you invest in over time. If you cheered harm, erased dignity, and celebrated cruelty, you don’t get to bill the very people you targeted for compassion on demand.
Chapters:
00:00 — Empathy on Demand? Hard Pass
01:07 — Receipts: Colonialism, Civil Rights, and ‘Order’
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Left in Exile Intro
Left in Exile Intro
Transcripts
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He believed that if he saw a brown or black face in the cockpit of an airplane, he would be afraid because that automatically means that person is unqualified for that job.
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He believed that British colonialism, the kind that wiped out millions of indigenous populations around the world was a net positive and a benefit. He believed that the great replacement theory was real. He believed that MLK was a terrible person. He believed that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.
He believed that the person who assaulted Nancy Pelosi's husband was a patriot and should be bailed out. He cheer led the J six insurrection. He fully backed the people who built the gallows. For the vice president, he shed zero tears and offered zero sympathy to any number of kids who met the same fate that he met.
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He pushed conspiracy theories. Of all sorts. He believed that George Floyd deserved what he got and the J six domestic terrorists were unjustly prosecuted.
He believes that Muslims should not hold office in the United States because it was Muslims who were behind nine 11.
He was gleefully, cheering along as people who look like me and people who are darker than me. Were disappeared off the streets and sent off to concentration camps. He thought taking a picture in front of Alligator Alcatraz was a great idea. He saw nothing wrong with police indiscriminately attacking various communities of color and doing whatever they needed to do because that was law and order.
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And that freedom doesn't include anybody, and it especially doesn't include me or anybody darker than me.
But here's the thing, the interesting thing about that side of the aisle is that if you're this shade, you have unlimited grace and anything that happens to you, no matter how terrible a person you are, you get a pass. If you're this shade or darker, you get zero grace. The smallest mistake is going to be perceived as a huge slight, and that is the nature of that side of the aisle.
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So for anybody that's out there saying that he's owed empathy. You're making the case the wrong group of people.
The level of entitlement that exists. With that side of the aisle where they're demanding empathy from people that they've terrorized and subjugated is mind blowing. You will get nothing. You're not getting sympathy, you're not getting tears, you're not getting thoughts, you're not getting prayers, you're not getting empathy.
You get nothing.
And if that hurts your feelings, that's a you problem Do better in your day-to-day life. And then when you need it, people might actually show up for you. Until then, miss me with that.
