For example, “love is love” isn’t really a call for us to love gay people by recognizing their innate worth as human beings and treat them with kindness; it’s a call to legally redefine marriage and family. “Black lives matter” isn’t just a true statement about the value of black people; it’s a call to political change, which typically includes removing funding from police forces and redistributing wealth to black Americans. These are examples of the exploitation of empathy to achieve political power, not peace.
