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Co-opting compassion in the culture wars

Co-opting compassion in the culture wars

Compassion — or a skewed definition of it — has become one of the left's most insidious weapons in the ongoing culture war. Like so many other arguments that the left makes these days, the notion of "compassion" has been twisted. And conservatives find themselves completely disarmed when this bomb gets dropped. Oppose men being in little girls' bathrooms? You lack sufficient compassion for transgender people. Think that children do best in a family with a married mother and father? You are unco

Compassion — or a skewed definition of it — has become one of the left's most insidious weapons in the ongoing culture war. Like so many other arguments that the left makes these days, the notion of "compassion" has been twisted. And conservatives find themselves completely disarmed when this bomb gets dropped. Oppose men being in little girls' bathrooms? You lack sufficient compassion for transgender people. Think that children do best in a family with a married mother and father? You are unco…