The kind of rhetoric that dehumanizes other people is at odds with Christ’s parable of the Good Samaritan, which Jesus used to illustrate the injunction to love our neighbor, who, He said, is pre-eminently those we might feel alienated from, as Jews felt about the Samaritans. At the same time, it is perfectly possible to sympathize with those from white working-class communities who feel marginalized and who sense that the political class has ignored their legitimate grievances about immigration and asylum numbers.