You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."
Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."
I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.
The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.
Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.
Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.
Where does it come from? Four layers.
First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.
Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.
Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.
Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.
The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.
Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.
On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.
But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.
This is where men have a responsibility.
Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.
Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.
That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.
Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.
A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.
Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.
Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.
🚨 JUST NOW: Clay Travis says it PERFECTLY after low-IQ squad members Ilhan Omar and AOC called Elon Musk unintelligent
"I wish we had a thousand more Elon Musk's. I wish AOC and Newsom and Elizabeth Warren, MORONS who never built ANYTHING would be able to find us a thousand more Elon Musk's!" 🔥
"There's BUILDERS and STEALERS. A lot of Democrats now want to STEAL from the success of others."
"You can make a strong argument that Elon Musk is the greatest capitalist we have EVER SEEN!"
Spot on, @ClayTravis!
AOC called Musk "one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed"
In January, Omar called him "one of the dumbest people on Earth"
Meanwhile, this "dumb" guy just unveiled a Tesla Roadster that FLIES. It defies all expectations, AGAIN
A week before that, he was awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for scientific achievement
The contrast is obvious. The IQ difference is huge!
California set aside $24 billion for homelessness.
California then announced that the entire $24 billion DISAPPEARED.
Finally, it was tracked down.
It turns out that the funds were turned over to an NGO.
Instead of helping the homeless, the funds were used for a mansion in LA, a home in Greece, and a $125,000 vehicle.
All under the watchful eye of Gavin Newsom.
The dude belongs in prison.
🚨Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
Sound familiar?
Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I'm simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House:
— USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”
He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments)
“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it's it's bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it's coming from the Cubans if you're going to do this operation
— We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID
The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”
“You're using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You're saying it's, you're earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation
All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE
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🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk tells every citizen of America to NEVER forget the treason of Biden-Harris dispatching forklifts to open the border for criminal invaders as Texas tried to keep them out.
"Never." 💯💯
Congress is essentially running a retirement home with a voting card at this point.
Senate:
• Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — 93
• Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — 84
• Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — 84
• Jim Risch (R-ID) — 83
• Angus King (I-ME) — 82
• Dick Durbin (D-IL) — 81
• Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) — 80
• Ed Markey (D-MA) — 80
House:
• Hal Rogers (R-KY) — 88
• Maxine Waters (D-CA) — 87
• Steny Hoyer (D-MD) — 87
• Jim Clyburn (D-SC) — 86
• Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — 86
These people are so old that Walmart wouldn’t even hire them as greeters at their stores — TERM LIMITS NOW.
A quarter of a century has passed since September 11, 2001, when the peace of our Nation was shattered by terrorists.
Today, we remember the 2,977 precious lives taken from us, honor the heroes who answered the call, & keep their families in the heart of our Nation.
Above all, we must ensure the memory of 9/11 never fades, but is carried from one generation of Americans to the next.
We will never forget. 🇺🇸
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The Somalis have registered 60 "HEALTHCARE" businesses in one single dilapidated "warehouse" building.
Let me repeat, sixty healthcare businesses in one freaking building
It's so blatant it's CRIMINAL this was allowed to go on. HANDCUFFS.
750,000 NYC voters have no memory of 9/11 because they weren't even born when it happened.
Zohran Mamdani won his primary by only 129,940 votes.
Just 17% of post-9/11 voters, 1.7% of NYC, put the "globalize the intifada" guy in control of New York City.
@BudElliott3@IngramSmith I know we’re down and we’re all over Norvell, but damn no Nolecast or season preview before the opener feels sacrilegious. It doesn’t feel like an official season until we hear, “Ingram Smith and Bud Elliott back again for another episode of the Nolecast
Outrage in Germany after it became public that a Syrian migrant with 3 wives, 32 children and 25 grandchildren, with 70% of the entire family having a criminal record, receives €100,000 a year in welfare.
47% of government spending is on some form of welfare. Only 8% is on defense.
Reducing welfare spending is profoundly difficult politically...but it must be done or we will go the way of Rome.
Well one state has voter ID to vote and the other doesn’t. Republican states do it the correct way. Spencer Pratt was cheated and his election was stolen from him.
We need to pass the Save America Act.