"I love Canada but there comes a point where the abject antipathy that you experience from Canadian society forces you to look elsewhere to a place where you might be appreciated and allowed to flourish."

"It's when all of the parasitic idea, jointly in a perfect orchestra as a cocktail, flew the planes of bulls--t into our edifices of reason. So first, I hit you with postmodernism. There are no absolute truths. Up is down. Left is right. Women are men. Peace is freedom."

"Islam is peace. Judaism is terrorism, and so on. Because if there are no absolute objective truths, no calculus of adjudicating truth, then all bets are off."

"So the West is uniquely evil. Not all those other beautiful cultures in Waziristan and Yemen. And therefore, how do I expiate this original existential sin? I do that by becoming orgiastically empathetic to the noble other."

"I would say by about 30 years ago, the ground was set for a nice warm swim in the infinity pool of suicidal empathy."

Gad Saad, Canadian Professor of Marketing, Evolutionary Behavioural Scientist, Concordia University

A woman cries in shock after a car bomb killed 13 in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War on August 8, 1986. (Khalil Dehaini via Getty Images)

 

Born in 1964 Beirut, Gad Saad's family fled the Lebanese civil war to settle a world away, in Montreal.  A scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom, University of Mississippi, his professional career is backgrounded by 32 years at Concordia University as a professor of marketing. More latterly, he has become a public intellectual with a global reputation. The most recent of his publications is the book Suicidal Empathy. Highlighting how enlightened Western values of democratic liberalism have been gradually overtaken by a process of dark, mindless imprinting of 'colonialist' guilt.

 

He speaks of the weaponization of empathy, playing on the 'nice' factor in Western society, an implicit uncertainty whether perceived 'white' society is sufficiently deferential to all the ethnic, social, religious, ideological, gendered groups that have traditionally been conceived of as peripheral and unimportant. Above all, he points out, the minds that shrink at the possibility that they could be thought of as uncivilly intolerant of others. Bringing to mind the issues of immigration, crime and extreme fanaticism. People like to have warm feelings about themselves; constantly being castigated as being cruel to others can be devastating to one's self-regard. 

"Empathy within well modulated, evolutionarily appropriate ranges is exactly what you want in a social species. In order for you and I to have a meaningful conversation, we need to have empathy toward one another. I understand your pain, I feel your pain."

"Suicidal empathy erases all that evolutionary calculus. It targets the wrong target like: Guatemalan gang members are more important to let into the country than investing in American vets."

"Homeless people who take over our parks are more important than the children whose parents have paid taxes, so that their children can play in the park."

"It becomes suicidal both at the individual level -- you have some rape victims who feel guilty reporting their rapist, because it might spread Islamophobia -- but it also then results in domestic and foreign policies that result in the suicide of the West."

Gad Saad 

Because, he points out, the new philosophy of guilt and empathy must agree that the foundation of the West sits on the rubble of Indigenous genocide, transphobia and Islamophobia and misogyny, it is an evil human construct. Whereas anyone with morals knows that all other cultures are to be admired and emulated; the West simply misunderstands female genital mutilation, the objectification of women, capital punishment for offending the state, animal cruelty because what are animals other than unfeeling objects? The countries that go to war with one another to resolve issues that diplomacy could solve know their tribal/sectarian values better than we do. 

 

Westerners who find fault with immigrant cultures that tend to break the social compact and justice system of the West are all out to sea; it is the values, customs and legal system of the West that counteracts normal human actions by forcing people to conform in ways that nature never intended them to. Conquest has merit, when it unites people, whether by common agreement or forcibly, and the West had better get used to it, because that accommodation is an expectation of the increasing hordes of refugee claimants, immigrants, and migrants flooding Western shores. 

 

The patterning of Western minds and their governments has been a long and steady progression of infiltration and studied understanding of accepted Western social mores, the language of acceptable discourse, the taboos and the fears. And that manipulation and deft exploitation by malicious forces whose adherence to the noble cause of jihad, for example, exploiting the byways of Western thought, accommodation and expectations has led to the undermining of foundational concepts, values and verities. Leaving us as craven idiots, mired in the swamp of suicidal empathy. 

 

 

"All of the insane policies that are destroying the West are rooted in suicidal empathy. Return to a commitment of liberty freedom and an individual dignity that made the West great."

"Throughout human history, most societies did not adhere to the ethos of the West."

"The West is really a miracle, within the buffet of human societies that have ever existed, and we're now seeing that it takes very little for us to lose it."

"You can practise your homophobia and genocidal hatred of the Jews and cutting off of the clitorises in your own beautiful countries. We don't want that here."

Gad Saad