Gad Saad Quotes Page 2

“Incidentally, if you are a non-racist white person who does not appreciate being accused of supporting white supremacy, you undoubtedly suffer from white fragility.”

“No other religion has come even remotely close to Islam in inspiring, justifying, or supporting terrorism. And yet, the progressive intelligentsia insist that none of these documented attacks have anything to do with Islam.”

“Oh, you are a non-binary bisexual chemist? Well this completely changes the atomic numbers of Carbon, Palladium, and Uranium.”

“One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity.”

“Progressives consider it laudable to criticize, mock, or insult all religious beliefs — except for the one untouchable faith. To attack Islam in the West is 'Islamophobic', 'racist', and 'bigoted'.”

“Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words 'diversity, inclusion, and equity' often enough, all problems will be solved.”

“Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing. But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts.”

“Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.”

“Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man.”

“The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it.”

“The next time some academics tell you how important ‘diversity’ is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

“The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings.”

“The radical snake always ends up eating its tail. ISIS kills all Muslims who are not Muslim enough. Progressives denounce all those who are not progressive enough.”

“There is no 'black mind' or 'white mind', no 'white male of knowing', there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method.”

“Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing.”

“Those who believe in equality of outcomes receive top-paying administrative jobs. Those who believe in meritocracy are frowned upon.”

“Though Muslims make up roughly 25 percent of the world’s population, they comprise 92.9 percent of terrorists on the FBI list.”

“To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions.”

“Trigger warnings are antithetical to a fundamental principle of exposure therapy, a well-researched therapeutic approach for combatting generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias (like arachnophobia), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.”

“We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.”

“We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.”

“When parasitized by such a conspiratorial and delusional mindset, the bikini becomes a sexist tool of the patriarchy whereas the burqa is liberating and freeing since it averts the male gaze.”

“When we think of a pandemic, we often conjure images of deadly infectious diseases that spread rapidly across countries causing unimaginable human suffering (like the Black Death, the Spanish influenza, AIDS, or the ongoing COVID-19 crisis). The West is currently suffering from such a devastating pandemic, a collective malady that destroys people’s capacity to think rationally. Unlike other pandemics where biological pathogens are to blame, the current culprit is composed of a collection of bad ideas, spawned on university campuses, that chip away at”

“Why should people in a free country be afraid of saying what they believe? Think about that, and you will know the direction that the 'progressives' want to take us.”

“Let me remind everyone:

I'm a man, not a cisman.
My wife is a woman, not a ciswoman.
My son is a boy, not a cisboy.
My daughter is a girl, not a cisgirl.

You don't get to label our biological identities and insist that we go by them.”