Weaponized Empathy

"Weaponized empathy" refers to the use of empathy as a manipulative tool for personal gain or to control others, rather than for genuine understanding or support. It is commonly used in faking or exaggerating emotional understanding to manipulate someone into doing what you want, often by guilting them or by implying what they're doing is unfair.

Person A: "I really need you to cover my shift tomorrow."
Person B: "I can’t, I’ve got plans already."
Person A: "Oh, I see. I just thought you’d understand how stressed I’ve been lately. It must because I'm black, right? Don't you care about stopping racism?"
Person B: "That's.. That's not how that works?"
Person A: "Shut up, Nazi."
Person B: "Enough with the weaponized empathy already!"

by dicktongued March 9, 2025

Evolutionary Empathy

The biological principle of commutative support across life forms, where organisms help, protect, or share resources with others to increase collective survival and evolution.

Trees use Evolutionary Empathy by sending nutrients through their root networks to support struggling neighbors.

by Lilac.in.a.Sack October 6, 2025

Empathy

Something that a lot of people lack these days. The ability to imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes, and feel what others feel. You’d typically be very caring and for sure an overthinker.

Wow, he really lacks empathy.

by ~thatonegirl~ December 3, 2020

Empathy

Made up bullshit fellacy cooked up by the government to make me not feel bad not for having.

Fuck your empathy and your dead cousin too! Can't make my ass feel bad that your grandma can't walk anymore.

Some mother fucker: yo my grandma can't walk anymore! Lady week my cousin died too! I'm so sad and genuinely fucked up.

Me: cool story bro, but that empathy shit don't work on me! Eat ass.

by Ball distroyer March 26, 2023

chronic empathy

Too much empathy for your own good. Putting yourself in unhealthy situations for the benefit of someone else.

Jacob gave his only winter coat to his friend who didn’t have one. Now Jacob no longer has a coat himself. Jacob struggles with chronic empathy

by jacbarc October 2, 2022

meta empathy

The ability for a person to simultaneously consider their own position, feelings, motivations, etc. as well as those of another person (or group of people).

The reason he was such an effective communicator was because of his meta empathy, people with whom he was speaking always felt like he understood them intuitively.

by GPM415 December 29, 2021

Empathy

“Empathy” to understand others in order to help them.

I always have empathy for others because I would want them to understand me in my time of need.

by -Myers.J September 8, 2025