Supreme Court nominee's 'empathy' is flashpoint for Senate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.

Traditionally considered an admirable attribute, the ability to empathize with another’s plight has become a touchstone for GOP opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Democrats praise President Joe Biden’s choice of the Harvard-educated lawyer and appellate court judge as long overdue, making the judicial branch begin to look more like America.

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But on the other side of the Senate, Republicans lining up to oppose the historic nomination are warning that Jackson carries too much empathy to the job.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-us-supreme-court-race-and-ethnicity-congress-651d3cb661368e419dd673579e7feaf9

What do you expect? Republicans are generally assholes.

[orwell]

1. Because...uh...

...Jesus didn't have empathy...

...uh...nevermind...

[underpants]

2. Trump never showed empathy in the COVID pressers

and that was a big reason he lost. Than and all the deaths.

[Walleye]

3. If that's all they can find to trash her about, she must be damn near perfect

[DBoon]

4. Republicans are the party of sociopaths

This is additional proof

[RAB910]

5. Only the mentally ill, aka Republicans, would consider empathy a negative trait

[slightlv]

6. Empathy!

Another word for the old phrase to keep women down -- she's too emotional. It's said no matter how you present yourself.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. sociopaths hate empathy

because empathy makes good people help each other,which makes republicans feel burdened.. When people with empathy make laws to protect people from predation sociopaths hate it and will resent it and undermine it because "you aren't the boss of meee I do what I want".


Sociopaths see people with empathy as threats and obstacles to getting what they think they are entitled to.

People who care,who have empathy are the enemies of sociopaths,narcissists and authoritarians.