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Miranda Devine: The left is weaponizing women’s misplaced empathy — and it threatens all of us
NY Post ^ | 10 May, 2026 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 05/11/2026 5:25:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A young liberal woman refused to cooperate with prosecutors after violent recidivist Rhamell Burke attacked her on the subway five weeks before he allegedly pushed a retired NYC teacher to his death on Thursday.

Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets.

“Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.

Rhamell Burke, ctr., is led out of the 13th police precinct in Manhattan after his arrest Friday, May 8, 2026. Robert Mecea for New York Post

Maybe if she had indulged in less self-congratulatory empathy for the maniac who allegedly tried to kill her and felt more compassion for her fellow New Yorkers left to the mercy of an out-of-control predator roaming the streets, Ross Falzone would still be alive.

But Falzone, 76, was unlucky enough to be entering the Chelsea subway station Thursday afternoon when Burke allegedly randomly shoved him down a flight of stairs, leaving the beloved ex-teacher to die hours later at Bellevue Hospital from a catastrophic brain injury.

The woman’s irrational attitude to public safety is a textbook example of suicidal empathy, the condition described by evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad in which compassion becomes so excessive that people or societies make decisions that undermine their own survival.

‘Woke mind virus’

It’s as good an explanation as any to describe the years-long harassment campaign by sizable chunks of the public against law enforcement in New York and around the country, even as chaos and disorder grow, the predators get bolder, and the body count grows.

The irony is that women, just like Burke’s lucky victim, are overrepresented in the ranks of angry anti-NYPD, anti-ICE agitators. They are among the most vulnerable targets of violent predators, yet they insist on protecting them

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: awfuls; blacksupremacy; crime; gadsaad; gullible; leftism; rhamellburke; rossfalzone; wokemindvirus; women

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1 posted on 05/11/2026 5:25:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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She probably wants to defund the police too.


2 posted on 05/11/2026 5:26:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.

Well, blood is on her hands now.


3 posted on 05/11/2026 5:28:18 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: MtnClimber

No wonder some of us question the wisdom of giving women the vote.


4 posted on 05/11/2026 5:28:29 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: MtnClimber
She probably wants to defund the police too.

If she has a septum ring, blue hair or tattoos, it's a given.

5 posted on 05/11/2026 5:31:06 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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--- "Woke mind virus"

Translation: I'm afraid to be called a name! Please don't call me racist! Ple-e-e-e-ase!

6 posted on 05/11/2026 5:35:09 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

“I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.”

Someone needs to explain to these psycho women the meaning of “suicidal empathy”. This is a textbook case.


7 posted on 05/11/2026 5:39:30 AM PDT by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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To: MtnClimber

Less that these women are used by the left, and more that they ARE the left. AWFLs are the real drivers.


8 posted on 05/11/2026 5:42:11 AM PDT by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: MtnClimber

Womens be like dey want dat bad boy fo demselves,
so’s d’ey be da momma saver of da woild.
Den agin, mebbe she don’t.

(Dear folks, this equation has been in existence in American politics since the Kennedy/Nixon TV debate!)


9 posted on 05/11/2026 5:43:26 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: MtnClimber

They treat criminals like puppies.


10 posted on 05/11/2026 5:46:23 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: MtnClimber

I was listening to a speech by Helen Andrew’s who put forth reasons why feminism and the feminization of society was the cause of many of our problems today. Suicidal empathy is a major problem not just here in the US, but in western societies in general.


11 posted on 05/11/2026 5:47:33 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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AWFLs are the real drivers.


Is there a reason why the U is being left off? Just asking because i have seen more and more people leaving the U for Urban out.


12 posted on 05/11/2026 5:52:06 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: Vision

Gad Saad has labeled this phenomenon “ suicidal empathy “.

Coupled with TDS, whole generations are terminally afflicted.


13 posted on 05/11/2026 5:55:13 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: MtnClimber

It’s not a coincidence that there is a mental illness epidemic afflicting liberal women. They ain’t right in the head.


14 posted on 05/11/2026 5:59:31 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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Why does she even get to choose?

A dangerous person is a dangerous person. We have prisons to keep dangerous people away from the rest of us.

But yes, female empathy is going to be our downfall. As a group, too many believe everyone is like them, all cultures are equal. Their leftist professors have them believing, “all people are basically the same”. True, until they turn 3...then their culture starts shaping their minds.

When “rape is ok in our culture”...why bring it here? ...supported by the very people to be targeted.

It’s insane.


15 posted on 05/11/2026 6:21:34 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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The 23-year-old woman should be charged as an accessory to murder after the fact.


16 posted on 05/11/2026 6:25:14 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Texas Texas Again)
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“Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.


“Plus it will make it harder for me to date black men.”


17 posted on 05/11/2026 6:26:30 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

This is an issue of ideological capture that happens with everyone. It may happen more with women but it happens with men too. I forget the name, but remember the Western journalist who was beaten in Pakistan and wrote an article about how he deserved it? Think about the people who turn their family members in to the state under the Soviet or Nazi authoritarian system due to buying into the propaganda. This girl is just a soft form of that. She “deserves” to be beaten by her ideological superiors. Its the ultimate rejection of individualism and its replacement with an ideological hierarchy of grievance groups.


18 posted on 05/11/2026 6:44:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MtnClimber

Rhamell Burke attacked her

Sounds like she’s into that some women have kinky ways it’s not just a male thing.


19 posted on 05/11/2026 6:45:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: MtnClimber

Whatever happened to the “Me-Too” movement? I had somehow imagined that its original purpose was to REPORT and condemn this sot of behavior by males of all kinds.

Wandering away from the constructive premise.


20 posted on 05/11/2026 6:47:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (The body may betray or fail. The spirit shall endure and prevail. Courage, courage.)
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