Empathy
Overthink
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The Dangers of Empathy in the Activist Community
Sally Kohn: How do we assume we can put ourselves in the shoes of another person, right? If I'm faced with a person who has experienced a totally different upbringing than I have geographically, racially, in terms of gender, etc. Isn't it some sort of hubris to think that I could put myself in their position? She says people try to relate to members of different communities by making an appeal to empathy when that appeal is fundamentally inappropriate. Kohn: Empathy will always have a racialized overtone that the people profess it don't recognize.
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