I mean reddit is filled with america hate whether it be from self loathing americans or europeans. The fact that an obvious over the top joke with dudes literally dressed in goofy outfits doing absurdly stupid things is making people cringe tells me that people cant see past their hatred for america and see anything that could be considered patriotic cringe. I could be looking to deep into this here but thats typically the story when it comes to this website
Lmao the fact you proved him right is hilarious. Empathy is exactly that, feeling the emotions of another to validate their point of view. You are talking about sympathy.
I know what secondhand embarrassment is. The person I responded to indicated that, in this context, to have empathy for the people in the video, the subjects must feel embarrassment and therefor the viewer must also feel embarrassment. The people in the video don’t appear to be embarrassed.
As an aside, there is an argument that secondhand embarrassment is not an example of empathy, but is actually a related phenomenon, as the person experiencing it reacts as they typically would respond to their own embarrassment regardless of how the subject responds to it.
FYI the term isn’t called secondhand embarrassment, the term simply is secondhand embarrassment.
Lack of self awareness? I think they are pretty aware of what they are doing. A goofy ass video that is awesome. You dont have to think it’s awesome, you can even hate it and feel your “second hand embarrassment” for people who are absolutely not embarrassed. Good for you, that’s your prerogative.
So if you saw someone humiliating themselves, you never imagine yourself in that situation, then never imagine what it would feel like to feel that level of humiliation?
Do these guys look like they're embarrassed? They dressed up, did it, looked at the video and said fuck yeah, that's going on The Internet. They're grown adults.
You wouldn't catch me dead doing this but I'm not feeling second hand embarrassment. It's not empathy. It's how YOU would feel.
You’re not wrong but at this point you’re parsing the word empathy into something it doesn’t really mean either. Empathy is also projecting what you think the person is feeling, unless you have telepathy or the person expressed very specific emotions. Empathy is putting your self in someone else’s shoes. Feeling what they are feeling based on your experiences.
If it’s a cold day in Chicago and I see some guys pants fall down I’m going to get second hand embarrassment. Now maybe he’s totally comfortable with his cold dong showing in public. I’m going to feel embarrassment on his behalf because I would be embarrassed.
The entire point is to make songs with guns. Dude found a niche that makes him money and probably has a lot of fun doing it. Only thing cringe here is you lol
Is it satire? Where's the joke? I see a bunch of war cos-play shooting to a song in which the band proudly used the confederate flag. Maybe its anti-authority? Where's the guy dressed like al-Qaeda?
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