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Dr. Gad Saad

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Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

Now, why is that?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

Is that because I think academia is nonsense?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

Of course not, right?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

I've spent my entire life in academia.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

I'm an academic through and through.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

It's in my DNA.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

But here's the problem, Sean.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

When academics...

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

sit on top of the ivory tower and with a progressive lisp and a highfalutin affectation, they can espouse all kinds of things while 20 year olds sit like this and go, oh, professor, this is so brilliant.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

fully decoupled from reality, right?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

There is no autocorrective mechanism that slaps them in the face and says, what are you sprouting moron, right?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

And so what that does then is it allows for the big mean pathogenic virus, mind virus, to then spread because there is no doorstop to challenge it, right?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

The 21-year-old is not going to tell their professor, what are you talking about, professor, that men can menstruate?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

What

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

What kind of idiocy is it to say something as ridiculous as this?

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

Until 15 minutes ago, the 117 billion people that had lived on Earth, that's a real number, a real estimate, they seem to perfectly know

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

to navigate through the very difficult conundrum of identifying what is male or female.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

But 15 minutes ago, when we took women's studies courses at Oberlin College, we stopped knowing what male and female was.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

And so that's the problem.

Digital Social Hour
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous: Dr. Gad Saad Explains | DSH #1638

You have university professors completely devoid of any link to reality, spouting nonsense.