Toxic Empathy: Allie Beth Stuckey's Case Against Progressive Compassion

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Toxic empathy is the term Allie Beth Stuckey, host of the podcast Relatable, uses in her book of the same name to describe what she argues is a pattern of progressives exploiting genuine Christian compassion to justify positions she believes conflict with biblical teaching, a thesis she tests directly by debating twenty liberal Christians on marriage and sexuality. Stuckey opens by arguing the Bible defines marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman, prompting pushback from a self-described independent participant who argues same-sex relationships simply were not culturally present when scripture was written rather than being explicitly condemned by it. Stuckey separately raises Old Testament references to slavery in response to a participant's claim that the Bible never addresses the practice, while acknowledging partway through the exchange that both the political right and left currently suffer from a shared failure to extend genuine empathy toward people whose views differ from their own, a dynamic she attributes partly to social media algorithms that amplify each side's most extreme caricature of the other. This same material separately captures Charlie Kirk marking Turning Point USA's twelfth anniversary by welcoming President Trump back to Arizona for a campaign event.