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[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Yes! The burning of churches in France is due to Trump.

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

A Dutch rapper posted a Jewish IDF soldier's details to 83,000 followers.

'We caught another one of those rats.' Then: 'Fight!'

When a journalist reported on it, he doxed her too, comparing her to 'that terrorist'.

The court convicted him on both counts.

The sentence? 20 hours of community service.

That's not a punishment. That's permission.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

French journalist on CNews: On one Marseille street, every single Jewish-owned business was torched. Every Muslim-owned one was left alone. Rioters showed up with the addresses.

In a street where ~40% of the population is Muslim.

The odds of that happening by pure chance? About 1 in 123 billion.

This wasn’t a riot. It was a shopping list.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Why are the New York Times, CNN, and BBC working overtime to make sure not a single Palestinian flag makes it into their photo coverage of the French protests?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Posted just hours apart.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

An 80-year-old couple was robbed by the rioters in Paris last night.

They had their phones, wallets and clothes stolen.

They were left humiliated in just their underwear.

[Chico Muya @chico_ray]

Don’t worry. They just want better education

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

French journalist Paul Amar:

“They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.

In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t”

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

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.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Stores of all major brands looted and vandalised across different cities of France.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This is a Christian family in Nigeria that is being forced to say the Shahada and convert to Islam at gunpoint.

How is there zero attention on what’s happening daily in Nigeria?

[Ajay Jadeja @AjayJadeja171]

France has been burning for the past 24 hours and Meanwhile, BBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, Reuters, and TRT World are sleeping as if nothing is happening 🤨

These clowns wake up whenever anything happens in India, but can't even spare a word for what's happening in France 🤡

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Imagine if it was the far-right rioting in France and Nigel Farage posted in solidarity with them. Zarah Sultana would have been very vocal.

She is completely unfit to be an MP. She’s as dangerous as she is idiotic.

[卄𝐎ù𝔰ε 𝐨𝔣 ℙｏє𝐌 _ @P0eMPieDinges]

Een Syriër die in de UK woont, reist naar Parijs om mee te rellen. Tijdens zijn livestream roept hij op om hetzelfde in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, London te doen.

Dit heeft het Westen massaal geïmporteerd.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

These are just frustrated high school students fighting for their pedagogic rights. Let's not succumb to Islamophobia. - @JessicaTarlov

[sarah milady @saracrypto_eth]

“He could have solved world hunger instead of building a flying car”

My brother in Christ,

In 2021 the UN claimed they could solve world hunger with $6 Billion.

Elon offered them the $6 Billion if they were transparent with where the funds were going.

The UN never took his offer.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Ireland is looking seriously shameful and weak right now.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Israel literally paid for them.

We made money.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Hamas introduced a tax of $3,500 per truck entering Gaza. That resulted in Palestinian merchants not wanting to deliver food anymore.

The son of one merchant was kidnapped by Hamas after his father refused to pay the tax.

Meanwhile, The Associated Press 👇

[Banker's Desk @Gormintbanker]

I understand the pain of your cousin’s family.

But for you, why your brain didn’t think, Can’t the hospital consider and conduct the treatment for free. Can’t his employer consider and continue the salary.

In fact the only one who showed consideration is bank with settlement

Why always banks??