Great study. As usual, Robert Wright’s evopsych tendencies have him barking up the wrong tree. White college educated liberals are highly empathetic towards rac

Great study. As usual, Robert Wright’s evopsych tendencies have him barking up the wrong tree. White college educated liberals are highly empathetic towards racial minorities, people they don’t have any kind of “tribal” or “in group” connection. Meanwhile, they are highly unempathetic towards certain other whites. Empathy isn’t a primitive spontaneous moral emotion that everyone assumes it is. In real life, our empathetic reactions are determined by abstract moral beliefs about whose suffering is valid or not.