Sentimentality

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.”
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

For example:

James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. Debate

This is awesome.

James Baldwin and I have something in common.
We both whooped WFB, Jr. in a debate.

Subject: "Has The American Dream Been Achieved at The Expense of the American Negro?"
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