Title: The Ever-Lasting Epidemic of Selective Empathy - rethinkourworld.com (being rebranded to raaniawrites.com)
Headings: The Ever-Lasting Epidemic of Selective Empathy
The Ever-Lasting Epidemic of Selective Empathy
The Ever-Lasting Epidemic of Selective Empathy
What is Selective Empathy?
1. Selective Empathy as 'Expendable Lives'
2. Selective Empathy as 'Us v. Them'
How Democrats Perceive Republicans
How Republicans Perceive Democrats
3. Selective Empathy as 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind'
Why Does Selective Empathy Exist?
So what?
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Content: It doesn’t stop here. Despite the crime rate being the exact same between black Americans and white Americans, black Americans are more than 5 times as likely to be incarcerated. How the American prison system discriminates against Black individuals (NAACP)
And let’s take it even farther to undocumented individuals. In the United States, detention centers are treated as prisons. The conditions are the same, the treatment is the same, and the facilities are often the same (owned by the same private companies, shared prison/detention-center complexes, etc). For all intents and purposes, to Americans undocumented immigrants are criminals. After all, they came into this country illegally right? But why is that so? What about our current morality makes us think that individuals seeking refuge, fleeing from actual persecution deserve to be locked up? It’s pretty obvious that the American immigration system is rigged against the poor and colored (especially when you’re Hispanic).