Coercive Compassion and the Politics of Feeling
Coercive Compassion and the Politics of Feeling “When empathy is repurposed as a tool of coercion, it ceases to be empathy in any relational sense. It becomes emotive leverage, not emotional presence. The very quality that’s meant to foster connection is rebranded into a gatekeeping device, where dissent is framed as cruelty and conformity as … Read more