Good Reasonable People | Keith Payne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Friday, April 25, 2025
Political Divisions and Morality: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Empathy and the Extremes Session
Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide | Keith Payne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
In a time of deepening political polarization, the cooperative, constructive interactions—essential for a healthy democracy—are increasingly hard to come by. One promising strategy for countering polarization involves fostering empathy across partisan divides. Yet empathizing with ideological opponents is cognitively and emotionally demanding, requiring us to suppress our own negative responses in order to engage with perspectives we may find troubling or even offensive. I therefore argue that empathy in divided societies such as ours is ethically complex and without proper structural support, the burden of empathy can too easily fall on members of marginalized groups—what I call a kind of “cognitive-emotional injustice”. This asymmetry risks reinforcing existing inequalities rather than bridging them. I conclude by advocating for the intentional creation of social environments that cultivate and fairly distribute opportunities for empathic engagement across lines of difference—whether partisan, racial, gendered, or socio-economic.
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