Himpathy: Rebroadcast
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The Benefit of Sympathy
The benefit sympathy, they just don't extend to men of color in anything like the same way that they extend to white men. An allegation of sexual assault by a black man, especially against a white woman, has often meant a quick death sentence when it comes to white dewed perpetrators. But why would lots of women have this impulse too? That's part of what janie wanted to know in having these conversations with her friends.
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