This is a good story, a true story.

“To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. … We never talked about Lola.” https://t.co/81VXrNNu6h pic.twitter.com/T64Qc6nzfa

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) May 16, 2017

In the process of showing empathy, it shows, it has to show, human weakness and carelessness and greed and contempt. As I say, red is invisible against a red background … empathy and compassion only emerge against a background of their opposites.

Have economies always been erected upon the labor of an underclass? Is that how it works?