A 23-year-old liberal woman recently expressed regret after choosing not to assist prosecutors in a case against Rhamell Burke. Five weeks before Burke’s alleged involvement in the death of a retired NYC teacher, he had attacked her on the subway.
The woman shared her inner conflict, saying, “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.
Reflecting on the situation, she acknowledged that if she had shown less empathy toward Burke, who allegedly attempted to harm her, and more towards her fellow New Yorkers, Ross Falzone might still be alive.
Tragically, Falzone, 76, was entering the Chelsea subway station when Burke allegedly pushed him down the stairs. This attack led to Falzone’s death hours later at Bellevue Hospital from a severe brain injury.
The woman’s perspective on public safety is seen as an example of “suicidal empathy,” a term used by evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad to describe excessive compassion that can compromise survival.
‘Woke mind virus’
This scenario is illustrative of the widespread criticism against law enforcement in New York and across the nation, which has coincided with increasing disorder and emboldened criminals.
Notably, women, including Burke’s fortunate victim, are prominently involved in anti-NYPD and anti-ICE movements, despite being vulnerable to violent offenders themselves.
ICE agents, many of whom are Hispanic, focus on arresting serious criminals, but often face opposition from women misdirected in their nurturing instincts toward offenders.
Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, author of the upcoming book “Therapy Nation,” notes that these women are preoccupied with public perception, hindering them from making ethical decisions.
“It’s another manifestation of the so-called ‘woke mind virus. Ideological conditioning and horrifically terrible judgment that distorts all logic . . .
“They feel like it’s their duty to take a stand and not be responsible for stopping illegal migrants coming into the country or sending a black man to prison . . .
“[But] the guilt this young woman [who refused to testify against Burke] is feeling now far outweighs any perception of racism she might have felt.”
Women and children are increasingly at risk due to lenient crime policies introduced by leftist leaders since 2020.
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Yet 84% of women aged 18-29 voted in cop-hater Zohran Mamdani as mayor on the promise of replacing NYPD officers with social workers to deal with mental health emergencies, homelessness and even domestic violence.
The judge who released Burke despite a recent string of four arrests for bizarre and violent behavior is also a woman.
Judge Marva Brown, a former Legal Aid Society public defender, is known for her lenient treatment of violent felons. In an undated video of a speech doing the rounds on social media, she explains her thinking: “The personal effect of having an incarcerated family member is very strong with me and the work that I do each and every day.”
‘Resort to violence’
Just hours before Falzone’s tragic death, Burke was taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after another arrest for erratic behavior. The hospital released him after an hour, defending this decision as “appropriate.”
This raises questions about whether this was appropriate for Falzone or for city officials who prioritize compassion for offenders over public safety.
Democrat cities, characterized by rampant homelessness and weakened justice systems, often justify these conditions under the guise of compassion.
The most vocal defenders of this moral decline are affluent white liberal women, earning them the acronym “AWFL.”
President Trump often incites these women into performative outrage, escalating from earlier protests to anti-ICE demonstrations and No Kings rallies. A study by American University found that No Kings participants were predominantly white, female, and almost a quarter agreed that “Americans may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
Some change their views when faced with harsh realities. Ana Kasparian, co-host of “The Young Turks” podcast, left the Democratic Party after being criticized for expressing fear following a sexual assault by a homeless man.
Spencer Pratt, a MAGA candidate for LA mayor, is gaining support from liberal moms with his focus on public safety for women and children.
But we shouldn’t have to wait for women to become victims of crime before they wake up.
The weaponization of compassion has also led to disproportionately female support for political assassination, according to a January survey from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers. Support for political murder is about 15% higher among females than among males.
‘The shift matters’
The survey came out just four months after the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, allegedly by a young man driven by transgender ideology, and months after two separate assassination attempts against Donald Trump, and a year after health care CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in the back in midtown Manhattan, allegedly by another cold-blooded political assassin, Luigi Mangione.
Justification for the murder of Donald Trump jumped to 67% from 56% last April among Left-of-Center respondents surveyed by Rutgers, while 54% of Right-of-Center respondents expressed justification for murdering Mamdani, showing the Luigi culture has jumped the ideological divide.
But it was the women who most surprised the Rutgers researchers, who wrote that the “unexpected rise in tolerance for assassination rhetoric among women under conditions of high social media exposure [indicates that] something fundamental in the moral environment has shifted.
“This shift matters because women have historically played a stabilizing role in civic and social life. Across cultures, they are more strongly associated with norms of care, harm avoidance, and social cohesion. When even groups long linked to moral restraint begin to show elevated tolerance for political violence, it suggests that the erosion is not ideological but structural.”
Yes, it’s terrifying.
Women’s nurturing instincts have been turned into weapons of political warfare, especially on the left.
