Seth Abramson

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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

That’s why I find myself thinking in terms of an “empathy gap” rather than lack of empathy. Many humans have far less empathy than they should, but in certain situations we can exclude all the variables and see a major empathy gap based on *race*. In America this gap is *gaping*. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 3, 2022

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But it’s also the case that empathy in no way requires privilege. As a former public defender, I met many poor white men who felt they’d routinely been mistreated by police. It was an opening to empathize with Black Americans some of them took, but it should have been much more. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 3, 2022

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The mental gymnastics white Americans do to justify the killings of unarmed Black Americans can’t be explained by the basic lack of empathy many humans suffer from. It’s a lack of empathy *explicitly* applied just to black people and other non-whites. *That* makes one a racist. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 3, 2022