Forum (Forum & Focus)
May 27, 2009
Empathy Pains
Conservatives' outrage over the word empathy may be out of ignorance, or it also could be an intentional and manipulative obfuscation, writes Mark Neal Aaronson.
FORUM COLUMN
By Mark Neal Aaronson Conservatives are gearing up to fight President Barack Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, whomever she or he may be, on the grounds that the president has said he wants someone with "that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles." For some on the right, empathy apparently is now a dirty word. While there is a long history in political rhetoric of demonizing wo...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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