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Thus, when Hamas attacked, activists were ready to denounce both the Israeli response and those Americans who sympathized with the world’s only Jewish state.

While fully sympathizing with her grief, many women have called Erika Kirk out for not being fully transparent in her self-portrait.

A significant swath of Americans, some experts note, tend to excuse or ignore violence on their side and not recognize it as terrorism if they sympathize with the cause.

There are crime stories propelled by tragic anti-heroes, and then there’s “Task,” a story that beckons us to understand and sympathize with Robbie as a man floating between grace and the unerring gravity of reality.

We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.