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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (213986)	10/7/2021 6:53:58 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 362588

From today's WaPo. (The rest of the article is anecdotes about the web sites that mock anti-vaxers who have died. Rather interesting, a young woman whose father died, was mocked, it broke her heart, but she's still not getting vaccinated.) washingtonpost.com ...Compassion fatigue, one of the pandemic’s buzzwords from earlier this summer, is passive: It’s an exhaustion, especially among health-care workers, with the level of death and hostility, resulting in complete apathy. But a subset of the fatigued have lapsed into schadenfreude, that apt German psychological term, which is active: It’s invested in another person’s pain or loss as an outcome. It’s the pleasure in another person’s misfortune. It’s sites like Sorry Antivaxxer, or the Twitter account Covidiot Deaths, or the Reddit forum called the Herman Cain Award, named for the former Republican presidential candidate who died of covid in July 2020. These feelings were predictable and inevitable. Our political and epidemiological circumstances have created the “perfect cocktail for schadenfreude,” says Valdesolo. It pops up in the presence of three conditions. First, “it’s associated with in-group/out-group psychology,” he says. “When it comes to vaccination, that’s a political identity. So this issue has been associated with this already vitriolic and hostile intergroup conflict.” Second, “it needs to feel like the sufferer has done something harmful and that they deserve it,” Valdesolo says. “People who are vaccinated interpret the vaccine as something you do not only for yourself but to protect others, and not taking it actively harms other people. And when you’ve got an out-group member who is harming other people, perhaps people in your own group, now you’re prone to think, ‘Okay, this person deserves it.’?” And finally, “the third is the ability to have behaved otherwise or perceived the agency here. And it seems like the person who hasn’t taken the vaccine could have easily done so. They had the ability to choose otherwise. And any time we think someone’s got that, then we feel like they’re more responsible for their bad choice.”...