WHY DOES THE LEFT CARE MORE FOR CRIMINAL PERPS THAN FOR THEIR VICTIMS?

This has always perplexed me. Don't know why- there is a perfectly simple explanation that fits my long experience as a far-left loon. From Dr. Helen:

Bernard Chapin at PJM has a terrific interview up with psychiatrist Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, author of Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline and In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas. This part of the interview caught my eye:

BC: Why do we as a society automatically extend empathy and compassion to criminals rather than the victims of their crimes? There’s a phrase that you use in this context: “a preference for barbarism.” Why do our intellectuals rally to the cause of miscreants rather than that of good, honest citizens?

Dr. Dalrymple: Intellectuals need to say things that are not immediately obvious or do not occur to the man in the street. The man in the street instinctively sympathizes with the victim of crime; therefore, to distinguish himself from the man in the street, the intellectual has to sympathize with the criminal, by turning him into a victim of forces which only he, the intellectual, has sufficient sophistication to see.

Of course! It's all about their egos...me...me...meeeeee! Its what their "caring" is all about as well. Whether or not the actual real world results help or hurt is immaterial. What they"care" about is looking like a good person and sucking up that good buzz. That's how they can continue to overlook the millions and millions killed by communism and STILL support it. Who cares if welfare has destroyed the black family and treats Americans of African descent as helpless slaves unable to succeed with out the overseers help? It makes liberals feeeeel benevolent. That's all that matters.