Sam Trenholme’s blog
Leftists and empathy
August 29, 2026
I look at how leftists with a strong agenda are too blinded by resentment to have empathy and compassion.The offending comments
On Reddit, there were some comments about an article I touched on in yesterday’s blog about a Seattle area online pimp.
I found two postings very interesting—these people look to have been exposed to leftist propaganda for so long, they see men who consume porn as caricatures of evil. They have a hard time fathoming the humanity of the kinds of men who are addicted to porn; they see those men as heartless monsters who merely see women as sex objects.
They overlook parts of the story which contradict the hateful narrative they have created in their head about these men—e.g. they ignore the guy who gave one of the young women some $35,000.
“Flaming-Framing” does frame the issue in a very flamebait manner:
the guy trying to hurt online sex workers by outing them to their family wasn’t doing it because it was his “kink”. He was just angry and bitter that beautiful women can choose to have sex with other people who aren’t him.
I don’t think that was Yo Yo’s motivation, and the fact that “Flaming-Framing” thinks it is means they did not meaningfully read the story. I have an AI summary of just the Yo Yo part of the story they were commenting on, and there is, to put it mildly, a lot of nuance that “Flaming-Framing” didn’t see.
There is not anything in the article to support the notion that he doxxed these young women because he was “angry and bitter that beautiful women can choose to have sex with other people”. Indeed, reading the original copy, it also mentions that “Some speculated that he was an off-duty Baptist preacher”.
I think Yo Yo is, based on the article, better described as a split man. He undoubtedly found the women beautiful and desirable, but he also felt they could contribute more to the world than be virtual sex toys for lonely men. I would say he wanted those women to do better, and he told their families about what these women were doing so that the women could make better life choices. It appears he got the girls to disclose their most intimate secrets to him because, yes, he did deep down truly care for them.
He didn’t tell the families of these young women about their choice to be cam girls to hurt the women because of some imaginary resentment from these women not sleeping with him. He told the families to help the girls. Yes, there was undoubtedly codependency in his behavior, and of course, it wasn’t OK for him to post these women’s real identities online for other porn addicts to see, but, yes, he was very key in getting the digital pimp arrested.
It would seem that this “Flaming-Framing” character has a lot of hatred towards men. She (they?) laments that “our culture is really misogynistic” in another comment.
Because of this hatred, she read the story about someone who, in his own way, did have a lot of care for these women who were online camgirls, and without any evidence decides he just hates women because they won’t sleep with him. Her hatred stops her from having empathy and compassion.
The problem with social media
The problem with social media, especially Reddit, it that it’s full of people like “Flaming-Framing” who are too blinded by their hatred and ideology to have empathy for people.