Page 4 - Empathy Gap News Today

Success. i think the second trip will be a success as well. i think when youre talking about the empathy gap, look, we dont need a therapist in chief, we need a commander in chief. you can whisper sweet nothings in someones ear and not actually help them and thats what this president is going to do is to actually help people. hes very committed to getting the funding. again, we will hold him accountable and make sure that his actions are matched up with his words, but i think overall hes doing w...

>> hes not an avatar. hes video. and we preserved that video like we were preserve any other memory source on video. were not changing his comments or manipulating them. what you get in the answer is what he gave. the idea is that then it becomes an archive in its own right. >> how many concentration camps did you go to? >> i went to five concentration camps. the first camp i went to, my parents, and my twin sister, they were murdered on the same day that we arrived there. >> we asked him about ...

And what parts of your past impact what you believe now and might believe, you know, tomorrow. i think the other thing is there iss significant empathy gap. not just here but everywhere. i think most people havent had in their homes for dinner in a real way somebody who is significantly different from them, either politically or racially for for whatever reason. so i think that the liberal bastion of college campuses can be true. the school is certainly committed to accepting, you know, our thou...

What parts of your past impact what you believe now and might believe tomorrow. i think the other thing is there is a significant empathy gap. not just here but everywhere. you know, i think most people havent had in their homes for dinner in a real way somebody who is significantly different from them either politically or raally or for whatever reason ve cloistered ourselves i think thathe liberal bastion of college campuses certainly can be true. ive been lucky here. the schools certainly com...

Talking -- its not just that were reading different news but we dont talk to each other anymore. i think it would be good civic engagement at some point will require a level of civility i think. theres a lot of problems with our >>. [ applause ] [ applause ] . . >> theres a lot of problems with our politics that begin at home. i think we blame politicians a lot for the failure of us of each of us to grasp each other well. so youre mentor when you were a senator, dick lugar. >> great guy. love th...

Solve. conversations about race tend to drift toward the challenge of recognizing our shared humanity and trying to close the racial empathy gap. these conversations about race tend to suggest that racial problems are everyones fault and if we were more cognizant and empathetic problems would go away. implicit biases exist within everyone, but the overwhelming majority of us are good hearted and are accepting of other races. conversations about race that make everyone feel guilty and complicit a...

There really was sort of an outcry when sonia sotomayor was first put up for the court. when she talked about the wise latina position. so talk to me about the role that empathy plays in actual policy making. how does it lead us to good and/or potentially bad policy. >> first of all, it is like we just talked about. walking in somebody elses shoes. it allows you to think beyond your box of, what are the policy options in front of me. i think, though, most interesting, the policy gap itself allow...

Reid, and id like to talk to you a little bit about the so-called empathy gap that some say republicans struggle with. you know, the argument from democrats were willing to support this extension because we care so much about families that are unemployed right now that were willing to do anything to help them, and republicans are trying to make it difficult. republicans would argue were trying to pay for it. but the perception issue of the republican party, how do you confront that? >> listen, i...

Thats a real anti-dote to this empathy gap. then theres systems awareness. understanding the economic systems, the political systems, whatever it may be, that are really effecting our lives in massive ways. i think the biggest one is the blindness that we all tend to share between the impacts of our daily activities, the things we buy and do, and the global systems that are supporting life on the planet. our systems of construction, of energy, transportation, industry, commerce are degrading the...

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of lyndon johnsons war on poverty. he declared that on january 8th, 1964. marking that anniversary republican senator marco rubio will be delivering a speech on income inequality and the american dream. our nbc news first read team says its an attempt by the gop to close its empathy gap. first read notes in its post-election autopsy, the rnc says "the republican party must be the champion of those who seek to climb the economic ladder of life." how is that messag...