Philip Wang in Time Magazine:
Is there such a thing as having too much empathy? That’s a theory gaining the support of some of the world’s richest people following the release of a new book by Gad Saad, a Canadian marketing professor and frequent critic of liberal policies. “A society dies when it cares more about exhibiting infinite tolerance and empathy than invoking its survival instinct,” Saad argues in his book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying To Be Kind. Saad’s ideas have drawn frequent praise from prominent billionaires Bill Ackman and Elon Musk, who said suicidal empathy will “end civilization.”
The term is also linked to preserving Western civilization in particular, which Saad describes in his book as “in rapid decline”: from open-border immigration policies under Biden and Trudeau, to DEI training, soft-on-crime policies, transgender activism, and Canada’s universal healthcare system.
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