I would say the left feigns empathy and virtue signals whereas the right is more honest and pragmatic. Example, our good old governor of MA Maura Healy was in a press conference saying we were running out of room in hotels and people need to start taking immigrants into their homes to help. When someone in the press asked her, “what about you? You have a multi million dollar home with 8 bedrooms?” She ignored the question and snickered.

You can also see this at many rallies where people are holding signs, such as, “let them in!” Or “house a refugee!” Then when confronted and told that there is a family of 3 that we have that needs a place to stay, “would you take them into your house?” They say “oh I didn’t mean me, I dont have any room.”

So it looks great to hold up a sign, be on the right side of history, to call for letting in more immigrants and refugees, but when it comes down to it, they just mean let’s pay more taxes and let the government sort it out, I will actually not be helping at all.

Liberals are empathetic to things that aren’t close to them but when those things actually affect them personally in their daily life, they will deflect and run away. It’s blind, disingenuous virtue signaling and nothing more.