I couldn’t help but be a teensy bit disappointed when I saw that clip of John C. Reilly waxing poetic about 'empathy' and scolding the right for not caring about 'human rights.'
One of my favorites since even Boogie Nights ... and there he was pretending someone like me doesn't have any empathy.
Nobody on the right is against human rights in the abstract. We just happen to believe those rights come with responsibilities — like following the law, not turning our cities into open-air drug markets, and not importing people from cultures that openly despise Western values. Reilly and his Hollywood pals love to frame any pushback against unchecked immigration or crime as 'lack of empathy,' but what they’re really pushing is selective, suicidal empathy.
Empathy for the migrant who just crossed the border illegally? Sure.
Empathy for the American family whose daughter was raped by a repeat offender released into the country? Crickets.
Watch:
John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself” pic.twitter.com/QS23Uzk0wS
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) June 22, 2026
When empathy becomes a weapon used to guilt people into ignoring consequences, it stops being a virtue and starts becoming a liability. The right isn’t lacking empathy — we’re just not willing to bankrupt our country, endanger our citizens, or erase our culture to prove how compassionate we are on social media.Meanwhile, these same celebrities live behind gated communities, send their kids to private schools, and virtue-signal from their mansions while regular Americans deal with the fallout of the policies they cheerlead. Reilly can keep his superpower. I’ll stick with common sense.
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