How they feel is all they have

Even odds 

There’s no hidden nice place. In the end, at the coast, a couple of people that certainly seem nice enough take the boy from the dying father. I believe it was implied that there were some others, but it’s all hard scrabble apocalypse for them too. That’s how I remember it at least. I haven’t seen the movie. 

Fuck out then

“But would you say you developed your current level of empathy because people you didn’t know kept insisting that you need to be upset at the things they’re upset at?”

Word to that

I wasn’t putting getting some light chuckles at the expense of the developmentally disabled on the same level as Harvey Weinstein serial rapist, which I also wasn’t equating it to power imbalance-assisted public masturbation enthusiasts, or woman-hating TV exec bullies.  I was just providing examples of people…

Your not wrong about all the noise—stupid, stupid noise, some of which does indeed come from the performatively woke. More, though, comes from the bigoted white bro keyboard battalion, much of it in bad faith, more of it designed solely to get the reaction it gets from the performatively woke.

“Can we demonstrate that being offended on others’ behalf solves problems or improves situations?”

So, you’re offended on their behalf?

Don’t overlook the dog whistle. “One particular group,” says the aggrieved, Internet-stuck white male (who will now probably say “you don’t know that”)

I disagree hard. What exactly is the “one group” here? The rote answer, natch, will be Libs, and it’s total rehearsed bullshit.

We have a remedy!

That it’s an appealing sentiment has more to do with the symmetry of its construction than anything. (The ‘shape’ of language has a profound effect on its power—just think of all the utter nonsense artfully deployed in some of your favorite song lyrics).

“What’s the old saying about be careful when fighting monsters that you don’t become a monster”

Misanthropist (or Edgelord Teen)

I was waiting for you

Predators

Bullshit. You’re defending Jones vociferously.

Your quote you provided was about how Lewis, Christian buffoon he was, believed secular persecution “preferable” to religious persecution, if, for no other reason than there being a chance to escape from it.