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Speaker 1: They try to use your decency, your sense of kindness,
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Speaker 1: and your sense of getting along with your fellow Americans
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Speaker 1: as a weapon against you. I know that's something you
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Speaker 1: get into in toxic empathy.
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Speaker 2: That's a perfect way to say it, because most of us,
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Speaker 2: especially those of us who are Christians, we have not
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Speaker 2: only a natural but a spiritual inclination towards helping those
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Speaker 2: who need help and lifting others up. And we're naturally compassionate,
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Speaker 2: especially women. We're natural nurtures. That empathy muscle is really strong,
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Speaker 2: and that can be used in a really good way.
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Speaker 2: The problem is when it's exploited for toxic or harmful means,
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Speaker 2: and how toxic empathy is employed. They take your natural
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Speaker 2: compassion towards someone that they hoist up as a victim.
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Speaker 2: Say it's an illegal immigrant, say it's a poor woman
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Speaker 2: who is pregnant, and they lead you to the conclusion
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Speaker 2: that the only righteous, compassionate and moral position to take
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Speaker 2: is the progressive one.