Schadenfreude: Why the Right Celebrates When People Suffer
Why the Right Celebrates When People Suffer
There is a scientific reason for that. And once you understand it, you will never be able to unsee it.
Where the Word Comes From
The Germans put this word together in the 1740s.
Schaden. Freude. Harm. Joy.
Schadenfreude. The pleasure you feel when someone else suffers.
When the English first encountered the word in 1852, a philosopher named Richard Chenevix Trench was horrified by it. He called it a mournful record of the strange wickednesses which the genius of man has invented. He thought naming it was shameful. He thought no civilized society…
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