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  • Can you teach an unempathic person to feel the pain of others?

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Can you teach an unempathic person to feel the pain of others?

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • I'm reminded that my friend Alice likewise has recently read MARLEY AND ME and was disgusted by its utter self-congratulation of the unempathic latter-day yuppies whining about how their pup/dog got blood on the floor when he hurt himself in a terrified frenzy during a thunderstorm, for example.

    The show must go on Ed Gorman 2009

  • It is important to view his comments in the context of his agenda, which is as unempathic as his gaffes.

    Jared Bernstein: Why McCain's Wealth Matters 2008

  • That well-intentioned but inexpert misrepresentation, at its worst, becomes dehumanisation -- demonisation or fetishisation -- treating what lies on the other side of the fence as mere cipher for one's own fears and desires, indifferent, unempathic towards them as another human being.

    Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • And misrepresentation may not be unempathic (demonisation/fetishisation); it could just be wrong-headed, naive, stoopid.

    Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • And it ` s extraordinarily unempathic (ph) and victimizing to even engage in something like this.

    CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2006 2006

  • Rachel is presenting a narrative of unempathic whites hanging blacks for fun, as background for her consciousness-altering agenda.

    White Racism and Empathy (or the Lack Thereof) 2006

  • Similarly, the underachiever who is told that he is the source of the problem and needs to straighten up and get his act together is helped only to find a focus outside himself at which to direct his negative feelings: his unempathic parents.

    The Unmotivated Child Ph.D Natalie Rathvon 1996

  • Similarly, the underachiever who is told that he is the source of the problem and needs to straighten up and get his act together is helped only to find a focus outside himself at which to direct his negative feelings: his unempathic parents.

    The Unmotivated Child Ph.D Natalie Rathvon 1996

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