Study: Intersectionality Makes People Less Empathetic
The European Journal of Social Psychology published a paper that argues that competition of collective victimhood, also known as intersectionality, results in a lack of empathy for others. The researchers ran three studies in Belgium to measure whether identification with collective victimhood resulted in less favorability to other groups. The study's abstract read as follows:
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The underpinnings of much the modern-day Oppression Olympics comes in the form of intersectionality, which argues that various forms of oppression against minority groups are interconnected. The intention was to create coalitions of people to understand where other people come from and how their experiences and their identity could help defeat The System. This creates various ghost-like figures, such as "The Patriarchy" or "the Zionists," who are responsible for the oppression of others. However, intersectionality has forced people of different backgrounds to compete as to who has been oppressed more and for others to get in line if their identity could possibly result in someone else's poor fortune.
Not only is this idea categorically stupid, but it has been clinically proven to create less empathetic individuals. Ask any conservative on a college campus if this makes sense and they would have a two-word answer: No s**t.
[this is all the rage on the left right now - it explains how feminists can support Shri'a Muslims]
The European Journal of Social Psychology published a paper that argues that competition of collective victimhood, also known as intersectionality, results in a lack of empathy for others. The researchers ran three studies in Belgium to measure whether identification with collective victimhood resulted in less favorability to other groups. The study's abstract read as follows:
Groups that perceive themselves as victims can engage in “competitive victimhood.” We propose that, in some societal circumstances, this competition bears on the recognition of past sufferings—rather than on their relative severity—fostering negative intergroup attitudes. Three studies are presented. Study 1, a survey among Sub-Saharan African immigrants in Belgium (N = 127), showed that a sense of collective victimhood was associated with more secondary anti-Semitism. This effect was mediated by a sense of lack of victimhood recognition, then by the belief that this lack of recognition was due to that of Jews' victimhood, but not by competition over the severity of the sufferings. Study 2 replicated this mediation model among Muslim immigrants (N = 125). Study 3 experimentally demonstrated the negative effect of the unequal recognition of groups' victimhood on intergroup attitudes in a fictional situation involving psychology students (N = 183). Overall, these studies provide evidence that struggle for victimhood recognition can foster intergroup conflict.
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The underpinnings of much the modern-day Oppression Olympics comes in the form of intersectionality, which argues that various forms of oppression against minority groups are interconnected. The intention was to create coalitions of people to understand where other people come from and how their experiences and their identity could help defeat The System. This creates various ghost-like figures, such as "The Patriarchy" or "the Zionists," who are responsible for the oppression of others. However, intersectionality has forced people of different backgrounds to compete as to who has been oppressed more and for others to get in line if their identity could possibly result in someone else's poor fortune.
Not only is this idea categorically stupid, but it has been clinically proven to create less empathetic individuals. Ask any conservative on a college campus if this makes sense and they would have a two-word answer: No s**t.
[this is all the rage on the left right now - it explains how feminists can support Shri'a Muslims]
