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19 Post author: gwern 05 October 2011 12:36AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2011 12:52:26PM *  2 points [-]

…For example, one might judge that charity is good, or that wife beating is bad. According to the view under consideration these judgments depend on empathetic responses: we empathize with the positive feelings experienced by the recipients of charity and with the negative feelings of those who fall prey to domestic violence.

If was the adherent of a heretical sect of PC I would say that I detected microagression here.