A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to Ross Douthat interview Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative Christian writer and podcaster. Then I heard my name. From the transcript: Douthat: You wrote a book entitled "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.
From the transcript: Douthat: You wrote a book entitled "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. " You can see just from the subtitle that it is effectively both a critique of secular progressivism and also a critique of your fellow Christians. I think a lot of people hear a word like "empathy" and think that it is just something that Christians are automatically called to and that a critique of empathy is effectively a critique of Christianity itself.
I think a lot of people hear a word like "empathy" and think that it is just something that Christians are automatically called to and that a critique of empathy is effectively a critique of Christianity itself. What is toxic empathy. What is wrong with some forms of empathy, from your perspective.