Autism and the Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Simon Baron-Cohen)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Threat of Hatred
The threat thing is a particularly important theme, you know, often used in these situations when you're trying to whip up hatred toward a group. I think we saw that when Trump got elected, the highest thing on his agenda was building the wall between the US and Mexico. In this case, illegal immigrants translated to how you handle young kids who might be Mexican. Beliefs that people have about particular groups. You see it in almost every conflict. If you look at the Middle East conflict, you could find people that hold very negative views about the other community.
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