The 'Himpathy' Advantage of Rich, White, Male Predators

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Kate Manne, NYT: What makes himpathy so difficult to counter is that the mechanisms underlying it are partly moral   in nature: Sympathy and empathy are pro-social moral emotions, which makes it especially hard to convince people that when they skew toward the powerful and against the vulnerable, they become a source of systemic injustice. So, for those for whom himpathy is a mental habit prompted by biased social forces, and not an entrenched moral outlook, the first step to solving the problem is simply learning to recognize when it’s at work, and to be wary of its biasing influence.