"What I was really hearing was not an expression of compassion or understanding but something else"

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

1935 The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: 

Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.⁴⁰

The key for me is two-fold.  Equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and every form of social or cultural discrimination... must be curbed.

Keep this in mind when you watch what follows:

 

I find this to be profound.

You?