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Empathy

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The Dangers of Empathy

David Perry: It takes a degree of privilege to be able to imagine that you can inhabit the position of another person right I can just kind of like float between perspectives. He says marginalized folks are often precisely the ones who are most attuned to the dangers of empathy, even in describing their own experiences and relating those experiences to others. "I think part of this is a disavowal of the need to do very serious effective emotional political labor on oneself"

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