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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

that children best learn how to read if you have twerking drag queens teaching you during happy hour, right?

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

And so there what you'll see is you'll see a cacophony of Jewish conservatives, Christian conservatives, and Muslim conservatives standing in unison against their children being taught all this nonsense.

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

So depending on the issue, you have shifting alliances.

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

Well, I mean, certainly I think the parasitic ideas that I talk about in the parasitic mind are the ones that have caused the most trouble.

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

And maybe just because it might sound too abstract to just say parasitic idea, let me give you a specific exemplar of that.

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

So postmodernism is a philosophical movement that started about maybe 50 years ago with a bunch of French bullshitters, Jacques Derrida,

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

Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault are some of the fathers of postmodernism.

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

And what the framework purports is that there are no objective truths.

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

You're always shackled by your biases.

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

You're always shackled by the idiosyncrasies of the moment.

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

You're always shackled by your relativistic biases.

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

So there is no objective truth to speak of.

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

Now, you could see how if you start with that framework, then there is no objective truth that men are physically stronger than women innately.

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

There is no objective truth that my chromosomes and my genitalia determine my sex, hence transgenderism.

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

And so I think there is a set of these parasitic ideas

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

that have been so detrimental to the edifices of reason in the west that if i had to pick in the current moment the ones that have caused the most harm i would say the cocktail of parasitic ideas with suicidal empathy will bring down the west

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

It's 100% the university campuses.

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

Every single dreadful, moronic, imbecilic idea was spawned on university campuses.

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

Because as I...

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

hate to remind people, it uniquely takes professors to come up with the truly dumbest ideas.