There are words to describe "person who puts themselves on a pedestal, naturally more morally good than others" and none of them are the word they're using.
Do you know what someone really in tune with other people's feelings and emotions would discover? That there's an awful lot of people around them just as good at it who don't call themselves "empaths" just because they care and pay attention to how others are feeling.
What happened to Perez Hilton? One of the early icons of whipping up harassment campaigns against celebrities just because he felt like it? Celebrities began to push back and by 2020 he was reduced to crying and begging Charli D'Amelio to get him back onto Tiktok. Now he's a nobody.
But it needs to be made more obvious that in the modern world, we're no longer in the 90s/00s, there is no real power imbalance between creative celebrities and reactionary grifter celebrities. Both are public figures. Only one side of the equation is pulling their punches.
This is, of course, *incredibly* hard to pull off and not something people can just get away with by playing their hand at it. One way it can go badly wrong is by simply fuelling the fire of "they don't respect the fans!" It needs to be targetted, in a way many think is in some way unfair.
You see this work on indie projects and with more in-tune and self-confident celebrities: they will when pushed retaliate by belittling the source that is whipping up a crowd against them. The crowd moves because they look up to the creator who sent them. If they're laughing instead? It's over.
These tech bros think that robots can solve every problem because they are also robots with no understanding of human emotion
I would put money on the fact that people who make a song and dance to this on social media (9/11 of thread) have found themselves removed from the invite list of at least one dinner party circuit by liberal progressives who decided they didn't fancy their devil's advocacy for reactionaries anymore
There is one tiny collection of people who make this case. People who frequently get told that people in their wider social networks don't like them and don't want to spend time with them because of their opinions. A group of people umcommonly likely to be centre-right newspaper contributors.
