🇨🇦 Gad Saad deconstructs Suicidal Empathy

A Lebanese-born refugee who watched his homeland collapse into sectarian chaos is now leaving Canada for the United States — because the country that saved him has become paralyzed by the same ideological rot. Saad's diagnosis cuts deep: empathy stripped of limits, trade-offs, and self-protection becomes a slow-acting poison. When Guatemalan gang members matter more than veterans, when homeless encampments trump taxpaying families, when rape victims fear reporting attackers to avoid spreading Islamophobia — you're no longer governed by reason. You're governed by performative virtue that prioritizes feeling good over doing good.

Saad spent 32 years at Concordia watching this unfold. Postmodernism, cultural relativism, identity politics — parasitic ideas that destroyed the ability to judge, to discriminate, to say no. The West built something miraculous, but it turns out all it takes is a generation of midwits terrified of being called intolerant to dismantle it from within. Canada didn't just lose a public intellectual this week. It lost the argument.

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