• Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      you made me start thinking about this. it seems so easy for brain injuries to turn people into chuds. often by cutting off empathy for start

      but just cranking up empathy won’t guaruntee someone embrace leftist thought. autistic people in my life are all leftists/left leaning (they all have various degrees of hyper-empathy)

      leftist thought seems so much more a “teachable” thing then just a gut thing. sure it helps to have a scientific mind combined with empathy and humanistic thought but that can also go straight to liberalism.