The conservative movement was pleasantly surprised last week when Allie Beth Stuckey, a podcast host with The Blaze, published a debate on her show with political commentator David French on her show.
While he still claims to be a conservative, French has increasingly become a pariah on the right, earning a reputation for denouncing perceived problems within evangelicalism even as he overlooks or excuses the far greater issues that define the progressive left.
Stuckey and French largely centered their discussion on the former’s critique of “toxic empathy,” the type of feeling for others that becomes untethered from truth and reality. French claimed that conservative circles have developed a serious lack of empathy in recent years, and Stuckey said that conservatives are merely rejecting “toxic empathy.”
In one of his two NYT articles critiquing my book “Toxic Empathy,” David French claims that I argue against feeling badly for dying children.
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