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Re:Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience by slg on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:05PM (#32657142)
>Honestly have really reached that place where HN commenters feel that we have to protect wealthy and successful adults from big bad podcasting boogeymen?

Have we reached the place in which empathy must be conditional? I can feel bad for people who are put in an uncomfortable situation regardless of their level of success.

Angelina Jolie might have won an Oscar, have hundreds of millions in the bank, and was able to turn down his advances, but I will still feel empathy for her for being the target of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment. Rich and successful people are still people.

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Re:Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience by kcplate on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:58PM (#32657478)
> Have we reached the place in which empathy must be conditional? I can feel bad for people who are put in an uncomfortable situation regardless of their level of success.

Empathy…is that what that was? See I took it as someone calling Joe Rogan a bully and belittling two successful intelligent adults as being effectively too simple and stupid to realize they were being bullied. Frankly, that’s far from empathy…that’s elitism.

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