Actually, We Need Less Empathy

This Western fixation has produced zany — and harmful — results that would be unthinkable in an ethical system that has stood the test of time.

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People wearing protective face masks wait in line outside NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health Morrisania neighborhood health center, in the Bronx borough of New York City, April 20, 2020.

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We need to talk about morality.

One of the most consistent trends in modern “discourse” is activists arguing that Westerners, whites, men, and members of similar large groups have a duty to do objectively insane things — allow the un-vetted mass migration of young men, for example — because “morality requires this.”

Wilfred Reilly

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Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

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