AT The Orthosphere, Bonald responds to an essay that claims people in general are more empathetic and sensitive to the views of others than they once were. Bonald disagrees:

Our age has not so much increased human sympathy as weaponized it.  Empathy is directed exclusively to recognized victim groups (Jews, blacks, perverts), and it is meant to inspire not works of mercy toward these victims themselves but attacks on their supposed oppressors.  Pity is no longer a check on aggression, but a spur to it.

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