How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion: Allie Beth Stuckey Interview

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In today’s episode, Becket chats with Allie Beth Stuckey about her new book, “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.”

We are told that empathy is the highest virtue—the key to being a good person. Is that true? Or has “empathy,” like so many other words of our day— “tolerance,” “justice,” “acceptance”—been hijacked by bad actors who exploit compassion for their own political ends?

In Toxic Empathy, Allie Beth Stuckey argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing that they must adopt progressive positions to be loving. She explores the five most heated issues through which toxic empathy is deployed: abortion, gender, sexuality, immigration, and social justice. Progressives use catchy mantras to present their perspective as empathetic, like “abortion is healthcare,” “love is love,” or “no human being is illegal,” but in each case, they ignore the other side of the moral equation. For example, abortion is presented as compassionate for the woman, but what about the human life the procedure kills?

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0:40.0	Today I have a very special guest, Ali Beth Stucky, and we're going to talk about her new book, Toxic Empathy,
0:45.8	how progressives exploit Christian compassion, the fascinating read.
0:51.4	And if you don't know who know who Ali Bostucky is she is the host of
0:54.9	Relatable which is a podcast where she analyzes culture, news, and politics from a
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