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These Christians claim that true compassion comes from rejecting empathy, arguing that empathy gets in the way of speaking what they believe are "hard truths" they need to browbeat alleged sinners with.

Particularly during the Gilded Age, you see a lot of rhetoric around sinners deserving their poverty.

"Sinners" proves that Black history isn’t a sin and that teachers of Black history aren’t sinners.

“Even as sinners, with our biggest mistakes, we always tried to be humbled.”

And “Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.”