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“I should note that empathy is hardly a cure-all. It tends to embed biases, because by nature we find it easier to empathize with people like us.”
― Cathy O'Neil, The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

“sardonic cerebral pity of the intelligent for any human injustice or folly or suffering”
― William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!

“In a federal lawsuit, Baltimore officials charged Wells Fargo with targeting black neighborhoods for so-called ghetto loans. The bank’s “emerging markets” unit, according to a former bank loan officer, Beth Jacobson, focused on black churches.”
― Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

“We don't have an intelligence problem, we have a compassion problem”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade