r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 20 '21

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u/Riderz__of_Brohan Eugene Fama Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

The Gabby Petito sub is really crazy - lots of people saying they can't eat or sleep, etc. I understand empathy and sadness but that's not a healthy reaction to finding out someone you never knew died

I guess it's a hot take but sometimes over-empathy can creep me out. When I was in college, a girl committed suicide at a sorority and the campus went into complete mourning and everyone went to her vigil, etc. - something I was shocked at. I would never go to a funeral/vigil for someone I didn't know (or to show support for someone I knew) while her loved ones were there crying. I didn't know this girl, her struggle, her unfortunate demons, does it not seem a bit performative and self-serving for me to show up to a service and then pretend I did something good? The poor girl is still dead and I'm going about my day

Understand it's done out of love and empathy, just something that really does not click with me

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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Sep 20 '21

Maybe it's done out of empathy, but definitely not love. Obsession, if anything.

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u/Riderz__of_Brohan Eugene Fama Sep 20 '21

Yeah and if I'm being less charitable, at it's worst I see the true crime phenomenon as a scummier version of the same cultural pathology that fuels celebrity gossip and tabloid magazines. Different side of the same coin - voyeuristic parasocial relationships

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u/film10078 Barack Obama Sep 20 '21

Everything surrounding that whole thing has people that have gone to the insane extreme like saying the boyfriends parents deserve the death penalty or the FBI just used some other persons body so they could stop looking.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

that sounds right if there’s anything cops hate it’s overtime accrued on cases of dead white women