The Flip side of Democratic Empathy: Political Demonology

Monday, February 9 | 7:00 pm

Bernie’s Café & Bookstore

3966 24th Street (between Noe & Sanchez)

Please RSVP to: townsquaredemocracy@gmail.com

Our facilitator Professor Austin Sarat has argued that empathy is a necessary tool for recovering the practice ofdemocracy. We might go even further: empathy is a shield for our humanity. When we practice empathy, we grant other people a measure of humanity, even if we do not support their choices.

This strategy has a name: “political demonology”. Like everything else about MAGA, “political demonology” is not new, and people have been studying it for a while now. We’ll talk about this phenomenon as practiced by MAGA through examples, to ground our understanding. 

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