Supreme Court nominee's 'empathy' is flashpoint for Senate
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 anothers plight has become a touchstone for GOP opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Democrats praise President Joe Bidens 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
(7,765 posts)...Jesus didn't have empathy...
...uh...nevermind...
underpants
(182,585 posts)and that was a big reason he lost. Than and all the deaths.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)DBoon
(22,338 posts)This is additional proof
RAB910
(3,484 posts)slightlv
(2,768 posts)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
(12,462 posts)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.