not to flash my autism but as someone w an interest in psychology this shit is kinda fascinating someone really outta write a paper on this issue ill suck them for that
First as to your thoughts on empathy, I think part of it all comes from empathy, but empathy excluded to particular groups. That's why it works by victimhood. Because if you're empathic to a victim, everything and everybody else kinda has to make room. Like an ambulance going through the highway and everybody making room. I mean that's hurting everybody's travel time in favour of a greater good and I think most people think that's a good arrangement, including you, I assume.
You're right that that empathy isn't extended and in practice labelle uses it more like specific people and groups being perceived as perpetual victims. To stretch the analogy a little, it's like saying: "Why do trans people have to get out of the way for cis people in ambulances?"
You're right that it's unempathatic, but it's specifically over-empathatic towards X groups. I say that because theis psychopathic seeming tendencies really do come from a good place and they warped them from there.
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As to writing a paper, you might be disappointed in the degree to which this kind of thinking is protected in academia. But if you do let me know, that'd be interesting.
I usually think about Sweden. They had a gender equality law for universities. It helped get more women into universities. And when the gender balance flipped and the first time a man tried to use that same gender equality law, it was flipped.
It also reminds me of american left wing news, which really fought for freedom of speech, until their hold on culture was strong enough that they would shit on wikileaks and tell you it was illegal to look at wikileaks.
Both show an hipocrisy in that it was never about equality in the first place. Many more such examples.