Empathizing with Different Subject Positions
We’re constantly talking about the feelings of … all of the people who wear fuck your feelings t-shirts, we’re constantly talking the feelings of these angry, dislocated, white Trump supporters, and we never are really talking about the feelings of the majority of the country, that is aghast at what is happening. And so eventually … those people’s feelings are going to be given some sort of primacy …
- Michelle Goldberg, With Friends Like These, “A Daily Insult”, 1:10:18
The thing that I find so difficult, and that makes me despair for this country, is when I talk to conservatives, including conservative women, and I talk about what a humiliation it is to have this man as president, and how maddening it is, and how it feels like an occupation, and they will … invariable say well that’s how we felt under Barack Obama, and I … actually think that that’s true, that that emotional symmetry is true, even though there’s no analogy in reality.
- Michelle Goldberg, With Friends Like These, “A Daily Insult”, 1:13:50