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Re:The Empathy Gap in Tech: Interview with a Software Engineer by asabjorn on Sunday January 07, 2018 @02:35PM (#16092210)
My personal anecdotal experience is that people that say they are social justice warriors, including my cousin, tend to not engage well in the conversations that facilitates equality by building mutual empathy. It is very hard to meet the person in front of you for whom they express themselves to be when you already made up your mind on who they are before they opened their mouth.

Don't get me wrong, I donate the the ACLU to protect the speech of the social justice warriors of the world and any other exclusive world-view. However, it is important that we protect ourselves from being limited to these exclusive world-views and refuse that they limit us from exploring possible different solutions. Protecting our democracy is messy and hard.

Re:The Empathy Gap in Tech: Interview with a Software Engineer by ThrowAway3456 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @02:57PM (#16092344)
> tend to not engage well in the conversations that facilitates equality by building mutual empathy.

I think you hit the right spot right there. I always baffled me how little empathy hardcore leftist display for other people experience

Re:The Empathy Gap in Tech: Interview with a Software Engineer by asabjorn on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:04PM (#16092372)
I think its more about the balkanization of American discourse rather than any particular group doing this on their own. There is an excellent comment by @stupidcar outlining this as part of this thread. Its worth a read.