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: The doctor called for the officer, but the officer had gone down the hall. No one else could unlock the shackles, and my baby was coming but I couldn’t open my legs…Finally the officer came and unlocked the shackles from my ankles. My baby was born then. I stayed in the delivery room with my baby for a little while, but then the officer put the leg shackles and handcuffs back on me and I was taken out of the delivery room.” – “Maria Jones” describing how she gave birth while an inmate of Cook County Jail, Chicago, 1998. 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).