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The Sin of Empathy (Patreon)

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2025-08-26 15:28:01
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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

The biggest threat to Western Civilization: compassion. Makes perfect sense. Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/lindsayellis.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lindsayellis Contact: Christopher at nebula dot tv

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Eduardo Gonzalez

hope you’re doing well lindsay <3 thanks for all your great work :))

Ricky G.

Hope you’ve been well Lindsay! Thanks again for all the work and I hope life has been going well for you. Much love from a follower since 2010! ❤️❤️

Dan E. Won

Thank you for making this, Lindsay. Empathy is such an underrated feeling these days in our modern world. Glad to see you're doing well and still making content.

Laurie

I hope you're well. Thank you for this.

Caffeine_unicorn

Ms Rachel, I dislike her content but really respect her positions. Have never clicked on a video faster.

Marta Shiaraena

I'm a nobody from the internets, but I am so impressed by your bravery. Thank you Lindsay.

Finn Hobson

Girl, I wouldn't do thoughts and prayers to you like that.

roxy du

Thank you for making this and speaking up!!!

Scoby Goo

*breaks into the Pray For Us chorus from Candide*

Laura Puentes

This was amazing. Thank you so much for making it, and for posting on YouTube where it will have further reach. Wishing you the best!!

Noah

Lindsay, I cannot put into enough words how grateful I am for your voice. You are a rescuer too. You always will be.

Lindsay Ellis

yes, just having technical difficulties because the file is so big!

Shea Bartlett

I think nothing quite sums up this video and the context that it was created in quite like me receiving an email from my daughter's school alerting families the National Guard was on campus. (I live in DC)

Ivy

Sobbed for pretty much the last hour of this. Thank you for summing up so much of my frustration from the last few years - you really helped me define some of my nascent thoughts on these issues as well. Your depth of research and knack for explaining complicated things is hugely appreciated. ❤️

Sophie R.

This is so funny that I’m watching this today, right after my Early Christianity Class and getting a really good recap for my quiz this week!

Fred Robel

I'm loving this episode. Thank you for making it! You are on the right side of things, and a good example to others who have a platform to speak from.

Nicki Aya

amazing video. I did not know about Project Esther. I hope this video can stay up.

Kyle Franklin

as an exvangelical progressive christian who was raised in the southern baptist convention i am gleefully enjoying lindsay’s discussion of some of the most prominent figures in my early adulthood. david french and russell moore practically raised me in college. also fred rogers. i am never not thinking about that man.

Ficsandmusings

I'm so glad you covered this, and as per usual in a comprehensive and thoughtful way. Especially since you notably returned to YouTube to use your platform for something so important. As an american jewish mother with a 1 and 3 year old, and in-laws who I absolutely cannot engage with on this topic at all, it was a breath of fresh air and a sanity check. My partner and I quite literally had to field texts from them telling us how antisemitic Ms. Rachel is when StopAntisemitism did their bullshit. Absolute insanity.

Jesse Meijer

Thank you Lindsay. I kept writing different versions of this comment, but I can't quite find a way to word it better than that. I don't feel good after watching this video, obviously, considering the uncomprehensible and inexpressible scale of horror that exists in the world. I've been crying for the last 20 minutes. But it definitely made me feel less alone, and ever so slightly less cynical. So thank you.

RamblesAboutStuff

Haven't finished watching - had to pause in order to attend a zoom meeting as part of a writer's coaching program (I blame "Booze your own adventure" AND "How to get a book deal in 10 years or less", it's all your fault Lindsay!). Anyway, I wanted to say thank you for making this video. I feel (though I might be wrong) that this is pure Lindsay Ellis video making at its best: smart, sassy and entertainingly deep. I can't wait to watch the rest and yeah, I just read the "Pray for me' message you added and gurl, I feel you. I can safely say that us fans who actually care for your well-being are wishing you the best. Thank you once again!

Totesnotasheep

I've seen a countless clips of republican figureheads saying abhorrent stuff, and I still gasped each time I heard they speak so heartlessly about Palestine. I can't believe empathy is a bad word now. ****Light Spoilers for Attack on Titan*** I recently watched AoT for the first time and kept thinking of how it parallels Gaza. The titans are othered and our main character wants to kill them all as the solution. That's what's happened time and time again through history, and it's horrifying to watch it keep happening when you have an ounce of sympathy. Idk sometimes it's really overwhelming to know, to understand that hate only begets hate, and still having to watch and deal with the atrocities fully on display. Thank you for making this video and for your very nuanced discussion on this topic, I'm going to have to ruminate on this and get more informed.

T

As a Jewish antizionist raised on PBS this video is very cathartic. Appreciate your work as always Lindsay.

Molly

Lindsay, I don't have words. Thank you so much.

harry kane

Glad to have you on the ramparts, kid!

Boone Ayala

Your work has meant so much to me over the past 17 years (I’ve been a ride or die fan since I was 11). I hope you know that your work has helped to make me, and probably a whole generation of viewers, more empathetic and critical consumers of information.

Kyle Franklin

finally finished watching it. lindsay, this is such a good, such a thorough examination of empathy and genocide and public complicity. thank you so much for this video. i want to show it to as many people as i can. from the bottom of my heart, thank you for putting this to words.

Rob Kitchen

As a teacher, this is the fastest I've ever gone from insanely excited to insanely furious.

Pete Langhelt

Hi Lindsay, I really needed to hear this. Such a well researched video has cleared up so much stuff that was unclear to me beforehand about this conflict. I completely understand why you don't post to YouTube much anymore after what happened but I think you do something really important. Ignore the comments and social media bullshit and keep doing what you do. This is a great video.

CassieWasRight

When you mentioned the cuts to USAID and how that would make the genocide in Sudan worse, I started crying and couldn't stop, because I also remembered the cuts to USAID that killed HIV treatment and prevention in West Africa, the same administration that is preventing research into an HIV vaccine. What do I do with all this mad?

Cardamon

Thank you... just thank you

Krimspen

This was an excellent video and extremely thorough, keep up the good fight

Mark Vallone

Thank you Lindsay, I have been a fan of your content for years and years but you posting this made me want to show my support. Your message made me feel not alone and your theological approach to arguing empathy was extremely well done.

Amy J

Superb video, Linsday, thank you so much. Extremely thoughtful and well-researched on such an important topic. It's been devastating to see the response to Ms Rachel's basic human empathy in the face of so much suffering, and the long history of children's programming doing similar in regard to teaching us the reality of the world. Mr. Rogers, your legacy very much lives on.

Jeremy R

I think lately I have found myself in a tiresome place dealing with the current political climate. This has recharged me, made me realize why I fight the good fight. Thank you.

BuckTurner

I hope your team isn't dealing with too much shit in the comments. But I gotta hope it's worth it seeing how many people supported PCRF with actual cash while watching the video.

TimmyMac16

(God) Sweet tap-dancing Me...

Link14

I have no words. Thank you so much for bringing this issue to my attention. As a Christian and Educator, the actions of these people deeply disgust me. I am now committed to doing all I can to end this senseless violence and bloodshed.

CodeTako

Excellent video, thanks for your hard work. I can’t imagine making this with two small kids, I have my hands so full with just one toddler. You’re an inspiration. Also that tomato from your garden looks delicious.

Nina S

Thank you for this incredible work, Lindsay

BearOwl

A beautiful and well-researched video as always. The discussions of genocidal rhetoric hit close to home as an LGBT person with a lot of trans friends, including one whose girlfriend is a transgender American trying to leave the country. The increasingly hateful rhetoric in the US keeps reminding me of 1930s Germany and I can't help but feel like a genocide against the trans community is unfolding right before my eyes, with me having little power as a not-so-wealthy Australian to do anything to prevent it. I can sign a petition here and there, or donate to x causes with the money I do have, but I don't have the means to travel to the US and stop it from happening directly. It's terrifying, so I'm glad this video offers some hope for change.

Jasmine C

Thank you so much for making this video. While I am not in a position to donate hundred of dollars I still donated what I could. Thank you for shedding a light on the tragedy.

Jara Ket

Thank you Lindsay, thank you for saying it better than we can.

Ellie Taylor

Watched. Cried. Donated. Shared. Rewatching.

Deanna

This was such a fantastic video. I especially liked the section about quantifying the damage of genocide, I'm following a little boy in Gaza on Instagram who seems to be doing as well as he could be, he has a little garden and takes care of cats, and the other day his kitten died because there was no medicine for it and he was heartbroken. In the story of a genocide where people are being murdered and starved and permanently disabled a little boys kitten won't matter or be counted at all, but its shattered this little boys world, like losing your house would or the constant exhaustion and terror of having to constantly move with no expectation you'll be safe anywhere you go. This damage will wound people forever even if they don't die, and it'll never be counted. Sadly I do think numbers matter a lot to some people though, the 60,000 deaths number, obviously a vast undercounting likely by an order of magnitude, is actually now being used by defenders of this genocide (recently in the nytimes) to make the case that it can't be a genocide "because way more people would've been killed. " We're really living in monstrous times

Definitely my real name

I regularly feel overwhelmed by the amount of evil done to children in the world, both by malice and by neglect.

IDoDabble

I needed someone to say many of these things so badly. Yes, the video makes me mad and sad - an extreme understatement - but the antidote to the helplessness and hopelessness is people coming together to defend empathy as a core value. It is the way to change.

Carly Lahana

I know this is utterly besides the many, many important things said in this video, but why on gods green earth does Jordan Peterson need that many mics

Sean Hannan

The combination of Mr. Rogers and the end of Schindler’s List is some potent shit.

Meggie Sheehan

thanks for your work, thoughts and prayers girl

James Graham

Is there a way to donate to your appeal without going through the YouTube interface? I can’t get it to work. I have a feeling it might be because I’m outside the US but it would be nice to make sure.

Yoav Rahm

So, as an Israeli Jew, living in Israel, you did a great job with this video...hit a lot of good points in a very good way. In my spare time I am a peace activists, while I am not alone here in Israel, there are quite a few Jewish and Palestinian organisations working together for peace here (even before the Oct 7). There is unfortunately not enough of us, and even more unfortunately if foreign governments like the US and many in Europe keep supporting Israel, then it won't change. You will not be able to pressure Israel to stop, but you can pressure your government to stop supporting Israel. I'll keep fighting hope you all keep fighting also

Steven Josephson

It's been a little while since I've cried genuine empathetic tears, but your video helped break through a little bit of the numbness I've been feeling as of late. So much of our current moment feels so completely overwhelming to the point of having emotional shutdown becoming a coping strategy. Thanks for helping break my shell.

Mar MB

On October 7th 2023, I was sitting in a NICU hospital room with my premature child in an incubator. When we finally got, while scrolling on social media I got a piece of news about hospitals in Gaza being bombed and premature babies being at risk of not making it. I couldn't stop crying because my own baby had looked like that a few weeks earlier, just like you said in your video it could have been him if not because of geography. Thank you for this essay. P.S. Did you get back to Lord Andy?

Marron S

I've been feeling wave and wave of guilt sense this year started and it's been really difficult not to blame myself for everything that is happening in the world. The amount of pure helplessness I feel this year in the face of absolutely everything has been overwhelming and I still feel this way. But...I know it is not my fault. If it was, I wouldn't have bothered to fight in the first place.

William

Empathy can be undesirable if it hits one of two extremes. One is extreme empathy for one's one ingroup at the expense of outgroups. The other is extreme empathy for the outgroup at the expense of one's own ingroup. The former I would describe as exclusivity or chauvinism; the latter as pathological altruism. The former is more common, but both are equally dangerous and should not go unchallenged.

Marron S

Literally anything can be undesirable if taken to extremes and frankly I doubt "pathological altruism" isn't nearly as much of a problem as conservatives think it is.

Deconstruction Interactive

Wow. I have been grappling with this issue for years, and have never seen such an eloquent, powerful treatment of it. This video needs as much reach as possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Lindsay for making something so thoughtful, so well researched, and ultimately so human in the face of such evil.

Ethan Good

It feels utterly surreal to think of Lindsay as a mother now after having watched her videos for so many years (and having met her once at a book signing). It was something I knew in the abstract, of course, but it hits differently after this video. Sublime work, as always. Lindsay remains the best essayist on the platform.

Patrick Collins

Thank you for making this essay, it can't have been easy living with this topic especially as a mother to very young children, but it was so very worth it.

J-mann

Made me feel a mixture of things I can’t describe!

ChutneyBear

Incredible video! And that DESGUSTANG! really got me 😂😂😂

Helen

Heartbreaking and necessary. Thank you Lindsay.

Drapetomaniac

She’s baaack! Can’t wait to watch here & on YouTube

Rebecca

Thank you for making this

Kimberley Challis

i think this might be your best work yet 🤍 thank you so much

selina

Genuinely curious if you can give an example for the latter? I'm not sure I ever encountered "pathological altruism" lol. It sort of sounds like a made up phenomenon intended to promote fearmongering over empathy and altruism, which is what this video is trying to combat. When did you encounter pathological altruism, and what harm do you think it did?

KSCHatch

This is an incredible piece of work. I appreciate all of it. The end wrecked me a little.

Sion Jesse

omg the number of executive orders... I remember when I had a google news alert for every mention of "executive order" back in the day bc we were so worried about Bush ramping up their use, but this is crazy bananas

pUREcoin

Thank you for the video slap in the face Lindsay. I've been an invisible fan since the chick days and it's refreshing to see creators I've grown up with share a sense of ethical maturity. Keep taking care of your family in all this craziness.

Maia Kup

Same here. There's not nearly enough of us to stop what our government is doing, and it sucks how dangerous it can be to stand up against it, but we're here and we're doing what we can.

CassieWasRight

Yesterday ICE kidnapped a five year old in Minneapolis and sent him to a concentration camp in Texas. This isn't the first time they've kidnapped children (they've done it every day for years) but there are photos. I rewatched this today because this video helps provide me a space to process witnessing that kind of evil.

Lynsey

She is an antisemite. She wouldn’t platform Hamas sympathizers, repost antisemetic libels and never once mention October 7th if she wasn’t.