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Evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad recently published his book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. Saad has identified a trend that goes beyond virtue-signalling (the act of publicly expressing moral views to appear virtuous, without taking meaningful action), to a darker and more dangerous territory. Suicidal empathy isn’t just destructive for individuals but, when it is weaponised as public policy, for entire civilisations.
Saad calls suicidal empathy a “maladaptively irrational altruism that has gripped our culture”.
This mind parasite hijacked the empathy module of our progressive elite, leading to a catastrophic miscalibration of moral priorities. The results are everywhere: from coddling violent criminals to protecting rapists to branding self-defense as toxic behavior. We are witnessing a civilization in rapid decline. Lunatic policies are instituted because we prioritize the feelings of ostensibly marginalized groups over The Truth, criminals over victims, and squatters over homeowners. This is not humane; it’s an active dismantling of the pillars that keep us safe and free.
This crisis of empathy creates a horrifying system of inverse morality where the strong and successful are demonized, and the destructive are celebrated. Just look at the insane inversions we tolerate daily: we prefer illegal migrants over our own legal citizens and veterans, permit drug addicts to threaten children’s safety in parks, and elevate transgender ‘women’ above biological women in sports and safe spaces. Common sense is dying in a deluge of misguided compassion.
Empathy itself is not inherently bad: put yourself in the other person’s place, as we tell children. In that respect, it is an evolved virtue that binds tribes, raises children and builds trust. Still, Charlie Kirk rightly warned that sympathy is a better word for such a virtue. Empathy, as he said, is the conceit that we can peer into another person’s mind. We can’t, and constantly telling the world that you can is a grotesque moral conceit.
Worse, it’s a psychological pathology. Research shows that an excessive dedication to ‘empathy’ drives generous attitudes toward refugees, but doesn’t guarantee functional integration or safety.
Exhibit A: a middle-class ‘progressive’ white woman who is brutally raped by a black man – yet, somehow inverts that to ‘empathy’ for the savage rapist.
Like the suicidally empathic leftist used as a launching pad for a jihadist bomb attack in New York, you couldn’t make this up if you tried. This tilty-headed idiot sat down one Monday morning to write what she says “was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti”. Her thesis was that reports of violence against women in Haiti were exaggerated in order to demonise black men as “violent savages”.
That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.
As she makes clear, this was very much what her fellow leftist cretin Whoopi Goldberg would call “rape-rape”.
It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.
So, did she immediately give up on the not-so-fanciful notion that black men in Haiti really do have a rape culture?
Don’t reckon with the absolute demented idiocy of the left.
No, her vicious, violent, rapist was the ‘real victim’.
Truly, I have witnessed as a journalist and human rights advocate the many injustices inflicted upon black men in this world […] Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy.
Astonishingly, this absolute basket case says she is “grateful for the experience”.
We actually let lunatics like this vote.
And it shows.
