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  I think there's definitely a sliding scale here. It's not that some people are compassionate and everyone else is not compassionate. People are moved by different things and to different degrees.
  I do agree with your point that those who are highly motivated by emotion are prone to prejudice. Emotion needs to be tempered with logic. It's very common (and always has been) for people to take one thing out of context and just run with it and go kind of crazy.
context: The media is very good at using this to stir people up too, they are well aware of the phenomena. A lot of people are compassionate about social justice nowadays, how do you think they were able to stir up worldwide unrest after one guy was killed unjustly by the police? (yes.. even Britain and France did this nonsense) 
  It's crazy how worked up people get, especially when you consider that the guy didn't even get away with it...