No, I used to say I thought the problem with reactionaries was a lack of empathy, but then the tankiest most based and sweetest comrade I knew told me that I’m just wrong. He said doesn’t have empathy either, but he doesn’t need empathy to know that everyone deserves to be taken care of and to have strong Communist ideals. I apologized for being wrong, and learned an interesting lesson.

It got me thinking, and I realized that accusing fascists of lacking empathy is barking up the wrong tree anyway. “Oh, they don’t care about the victims of their wars because they lack empathy” well then why do they feel sad when they see a stray dog? They’re just racists who consider brown people to be beneath animals. That’s not a lack of empathy, that’s racism.