Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion

by Allie Beth Stuckey

But “reconciliation” means to restore, or to bring back together. It denotes a previous relationship that has been broken. Is that the case between all white and black Christians? Only if one assumes the social justice hypothesis, which categorizes whole groups of people as oppressed or oppressors. But in reality, it’s not accurate to say an entire group of people with one level of melanin have all wronged another group of people with another level of melanin. This is a secular, social justice idea, not a biblical one. Understanding the plight and position of someone who has a different background than you—having empathy for them—is one thing, and can be good. Forcing one group to bear responsibility for sins they did not themselves commit in the name of “reconciliation” is a form of toxic empathy bullying that is neither healthy nor godly.