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[Sean Hanson @SeanHans777]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Aline started working at age 12.

Over the next three decades she built La Barrique, a restaurant in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, from scratch. She cooked, served, and became part of the neighborhood.

On October 17, rioters broke in, destroyed the place, punched her in the face, and set the building on fire.

By morning her restaurant was ashes. 34 years of work, vaporized in a single night.

Obviously, Aline is an immigrant, one who went to work every day, contributed to the economy and served her community.

One of liberalism's fatal flaws is the fear of drawing distinctions. Distinctions between men and women. Distinctions between cultures. Distinctions between countries.

Because apparently noticing any differences means that you are violating your commitment to equality; it means that you are discriminating, and in the hierarchy of evils in the liberal world, there is no worse sin.

This is literally baked in to the French national motto:

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

Égalité means equality, specifically social or political equality.

Which means that drawing any distinctions is the same as discrimination.

But this is completely untethered from reality because these distinctions are REAL. And if you craft and enact policies that ignore these distinctions, the chickens (ok since this is France, the Gallic rooster) will come home to roost.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

We really need to stop calling events where people burn buildings down and loot and rob people “protests.”

[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.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Wow. You have to watch this seriously.
So powerful.

The UK summed up.

She’s incredible.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Exactly what did you expect would happen when a country is denied the right to remain itself?

When the desire to maintain sovereignty, uphold the rule of law, and preserve and prioritize one’s own culture, customs, religion, and way of life is treated as nothing more than racism, this is the natural consequence.

France 🇫🇷 is the first warning of what is coming to the rest of Western Europe

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

Europe is finally waking up to the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

It’s gone. And many more like it will be gone, too.

This is what happens when you allow mass immigration from Islamic countries.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, and that's the only reason you're even aware that France is a warzone tonight.

Legacy media describes it as "scuffles" and "cost of living protests".

They're lying to everyone's faces.

You and I are the media now.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

If you’re trying to understand what’s happening across France today, read *Suicidal Empathy* by @GadSaad

[Governor Dill @TheGreenOldDill]

One minute you’re voting for your own conquering and the next minute you’re experiencing it.

Islam comes at you fast.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“Muslims are just 1% of the US population. There’s nothing to worry about.”

Muslims make up around 10% of France’s population, and the entire country is on fire.

Not so long ago, they were also “just” 1% of France’s population.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.

I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.

And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

🤣😂🤪

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

I love you, internet…

[The Ringer @ringer]

"I'm all in on Indiana."

"I think the Pacers are really scary."

@BillSimmons believes the Pacers are this year's biggest sleeper in the NBA.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 Former Muslim who grew up in an Islamic country says they are all taught in school from a very young age about “migration jihad”

He says that’s the plan being implemented right now in the UK and all over the West. To send Muslims into our countries as “migration jihad” to take us over, this is a plan that’s been in the motion since they were all little kids

“They are allowing migration jihad. I'm saying it blatantly because that's what I grew up learning with other kids in school. Migration jihad is exactly what they're allowing”

“Migration jihad is the essential doctrine of Islam. It's what Islam was built on”

“It's when Muhammad migrated from Mecca to, Medina, previously called Yathrib, hom and his early followers, moved into Medina, acted as refugees, poor refugees who were harmless, and made allies with some people in the area, some tribes in that area. And shortly after, within the first 5 years, they took over. They took over and they killed many of the tribes and they deceived people. They deceived them on a civilizational level”

He says this is what they were taught in school was the path to a global takeover. He says the plan was to create this new “Islamphobic” term that’s never existed before to avoid criticism and push implement the global takeover

If anyone would know it’s this guy, this man’s name is AJ

- Born and raised in a Muslim majority Arabic speaking country
- Left Islam at the end of his teens
- He then faced severe persecution including a militia raid on his apartment, kidnapping, imprisonment, torture and accusations of working for foreign intelligence
- He described being treated as a “Christian slave” after leaving Islam

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

This is how they treat women under Islam.

I will never understand why Western leftist women vote for this.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

This is not appreciated enough.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 UPDATE: The Iranian regime has sentenced 23-year-old student Najmeh Amini to DEATH for "insulting the prophet" in a social media post

WHERE IS THE UNITED NATIONS? Where are the liberal FEMINIST groups? 😡

She was sentenced to death last month but we now know the reason is INSULTING THE PROPHET

This is what Islamic theocracy looks like.

She was arrested January 31 for joining the mass protests against the regime.

She spent eight months in Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison, reportedly with no lawyer. On top of the death sentence, she got 12 more years for "anti-regime propaganda"

The world cannot stay silent while they hang a young woman over SPEECH!