"Psychology Today" defines "sociopathy" as follows:
Sociopathy refers to a pattern of antisocial behaviors and attitudes, including manipulation, deceit, aggression, and a lack of empathy for others. Sociopathy is a non-diagnostic term, and it is not synonymous with "psychopathy," though the overlap leads to frequent confusion. Sociopaths may or may not break the law, but by exploiting and manipulating others, they violate the trust that the human enterprise runs on.
That's a pretty good, if somewhat clinical, definition.
For a more chilling, callous, and frankly enraging example, we can refer to one Julia Xu, a student at Ohio's Oberlin College. In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, this... person stated that what the United States needs is more, not fewer, political assassinations.
A radical leftist student at Oberlin College casually called for political assassinations to continue in the wake of the targeted killing of political activist Charlie Kirk last week, according to an online post she made.
“We need to bring back political assassinations,” said Julia Xu in a social media post, where her handle is @bringbacktheguillotine.
“I don’t feel bad and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech. Some people should be afraid to express their opinion in public.”
This is a person who, frankly, should probably be watched. It's unclear what the "social media" handle refers to, but there is no such user on X - any more.
Here's some background on Miss Xu:
Xu, who grew up in Connecticut, is a second-year student at Oberlin College in Ohio majoring in politics and international affairs, according to an online college blog viewed by The Post, which has since been taken down.
Xu is on the advisory board of campus group the Gender, Sexuality and Attraction Initiatives, an office that supports queer, trans and women’s programming at the school. Xu, who uses they/them pronouns, is also a member of Students for a Free Palestine.
Xu said she made the comments about Kirk, who was assassinated during a student debate at Utah Valley University in Orem last week, after being given five minutes for “hot takes” during her “Revolution, Socialism and Reform in China” class.
This is as clear a picture of a young skull full of mush gone full-bore wacko leftist that you are likely to find anywhere. And so she's talking in a class called "Revolution, Socialism and Reform in China"? Maybe she should go to China and see how things are for herself. Some of her other comments reflect what we can only describe as staggering ignorance:
Xu explained how she’d learned that after the 1949 Chinese revolution, Mao had decided “people deserve free speech, but there should not be free speech for reactionaries and imperialists and, like capitalists … because that would reverse the progress made [by the revolution].”
Mao? That's her role model? Chairman Mao, whose policies and actions resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people-by bullet, by starvation, by hanging?
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Julia Xu may well be a young skull full of mush. But this, folks, is the face of the opposition. Strip away the left's nice public talk, and this is what you get. I do not doubt that Julia Xu is saying what all too many on the left really think. "Rights for me, not for thee," and a ruthless willingness to un-person anyone who disagrees with them.
Consider all the implications of this. Consider what a government run by people like Julia Xu would look like. Consider that there are many more just like her, who are not saying the quiet part out loud.
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