It's less a lack of empathy and more a redefinition of it, at least on the woke blue tribe side. In those circles, not rejecting ideas outside the orthodoxy and

It's less a lack of empathy and more a redefinition of it, at least on the woke blue tribe side. In those circles, not rejecting ideas outside the orthodoxy and dehumanizing those who hold them is seen as a failure of empathy because the correct ideas are, by definition, required in order to treat the people who matter with decency. I'm not familiar enough with other groupthinks to know if this applies there too, but probably not.