The growing threat of toxic empathy

Published November 28, 2025 6:05am ET



Following the 2020 George Floyd incident in Minneapolis and the emergence of Black Lives Matter-inspired criminal justice reform, a movement swept across many of America’s big cities, treating violent felons more as victims of a corrupt system deserving forgiveness than dangerous criminals needing confinement, even if they tend to reoffend once back on the streets.

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