Juno News - May 12, 2026


What is suicidal empathy?


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

140.22052

Word count

195

Sentence count

4


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00:00:00.000 why is it suicidal empathy because it is arguing that in the competing calculus of being empathetic
00:00:08.880 to truth and science or being empathetic to marginalized voices always choose celebrating
00:00:16.720 the voices of the marginalized people so we may not be able to get the top ai person who suffers
00:00:22.800 from the indignity of being a heterosexual white male because what is more important is that we get
00:00:29.200 an indigenous non-binary person to fill that position that's what suicidal empathy looks like
00:00:35.280 suicidal empathy is precisely the fact that in the year 2026 we are debating what constitutes
00:00:43.280 male or female something that i warned about in the canadian senate in 2017 when until 15 minutes
00:00:50.560 ago the 117 billion people that had existed on earth were able to fully navigate the very
00:00:58.800 confusing conundrum of who is male or female. Your ancestors and mine seemed to know exactly how to
00:01:04.640 couple when they wanted to reproduce, but now we no longer have that. That's what suicidal empathy
00:01:11.360 does. So the one-two punch of first parasitizing your cognitive system, then parasitizing your
00:01:18.560 emotional system, well now I own you in a true Orwellian sense.