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To all those who are demanding empathy for Charlie Kirk and his followers, let me remind you of his own words: “I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.”

He was wrong — about empathy and a lot of other things — but you are right in crying out for compassion as we see our culture divided by terror and inhumanity. We all need to practice more understanding, especially toward those who think, look and speak differently than we do.

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