Students were told they should be able to find it within themselves to embody the worst human traits they could imagine. One former student says this included trying to feel the lust of a child rapist. “Like you need to come to a place where you could play that character—the thing you hate most in the world—including pedophiles,” Amy (not her real name) told me. It took me a couple of tries to actually process what Amy was telling me. Somehow it was worse than I imagined. “We spent a whole day on how you should be able to rape a baby,” she said. “So put yourself in a place where you could
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