Gad Saad

It's grotesque, it's hypocritical, and it needs to stop because we will lose the West.

I don't think...

I don't think that suicidal empathy was designed at a Davos meeting at the World Economic Forum, right?

That would be too conspiratorial.

I think what happened is a bunch of terrible ideas were spawned on university campuses.

And to your earlier question, the professors who pontificate those ideas don't have the

slap of reality to auto-correct their nonsense so they could stand on the podium, pontificate nonsense, and not worry about those consequences.

And then their students subsequently become our politicians, our filmmakers, our journalists.

But let me give a concrete example of how a parasitic idea can lay the groundwork for suicidal empathy.

Take the parasitic idea of cultural relativism, which basically purports that you don't have the right to judge the beliefs and practices of another culture.

If another culture wants to practice female genital mutilation on five-year-old girls, shut up, racist.

So then, because...

I'm rendered impotent to criticize other cultures.

When then I am the architect of the immigration policy, I no longer am willing to say, no, no, no, we shouldn't have millions of people that espouse those practices coming into our nation.

So cultural relativism leads to the suicidal empathetic position of open border policies.

Right.

So in the last chapter of Suicidal Empathy, I offer a vaccine against suicidal empathy.

But to your more general point, look, we all have to speak out against this nonsense.

You don't know how many emails I receive.

I mean, literally in the