Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous

Let me define what suicidal empathy is as then it speaks to that calculus of who is more deserving of the empathy, the woman with the nine-inch penis or the woman with the vagina, right? So suicidal empathy really has three parts to it. There is the hyper firing of empathy, it's hyperactive. There is the invoking activation of empathy in the wrong situations toward the wrong targets. It's really all these three things that makes the perfect cocktail of suicidal empathies.

The West has decided that not only it doesn't want to be, quote, Islamophobic, and I say quote Islamophobic because there's no such thing as Islamophobia. It's perfectly rational to be deeply concerned about some of the central tenets of Islam if you're a Westerner, but the West has decided they want to be orgiastically Islamophilling, loving of Islam, right? Demography is destiny, right? America is America not because it has the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean or it has the Rockies or it has the Everglades. America is an idea that is internalized by a people comp together.

If you bring people that do not literally share this within every fiber of their DNA, they're not going to assimilate. All right everybody, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. Hey, you're not going to believe who we have today, my returning champion.

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