It makes sense, if your entire project is maintaining traditional hierarchies, to try to immunize people against empathizing with the people you’re trying to harm

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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

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Thought I'd re-post this pre-Trump warning. Mostly to remind myself that no one listens to the dire warnings we Liberals issue until those warnings are boosted by Never Trumpers and repackaged as their own Brilliant Insights far, far too late. driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/06/it-w...

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This business of detaining people who are law abiding and show up for court dates, treating them brutally, killing them in custody even when the person involved is willing to self deport, is truly disgusting and sadistic. wapo.st/4BimUIQ

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The fact that Amy Acton was removed from her mother’s care and went on to obtain an MD and flourish in public health makes her even more of a hero in my eyes. This type of trauma never really goes away. Yet when there was a fork in the road, she chose the one where she helps others. Hero.

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