Will our ‘suicidal empathy’ destroy us?

Tuesday-Wednesday blog

Readers have probably all heard the term “suicidal empathy”. Wikipedia tells us:

Suicidal empathy is a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are claimed to be destructive for the party that exhibits it. This is often claimed to happen through prioritizing compassion, understanding and empathy over logic and long-term consequences.

The term was coined by Canadian marketing professor Gad Saad in his book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. According to Saad, suicidal empathy is the inability to implement optimal decisions when one is psychologically conditioned to prioritize empathy or displays of empathy over a rational course of action. He argues that suicidal empathy prioritizes minority groups such as illegal immigrants at the expense of survival and security of one’s own groups and values.

We seem to see this suicidal empathy everywhere in the West:

• Two-tier policing and ‘justice’ prioritising minorities over the indigenous population
• Better treatment of illegal migrants than of members of the indigenous population, for example our own military veterans
• Committing economic suicide with Net Zero causing de-industrialisation and impoverishment
• Allowing the invasion of European countries by millions of Third-worlders who hate us, our culture and everything about our way of life but still want all the economic benefits of living in the West
• Turning a blind eye to the mass rape of thousands of often-underage white girls to supposedly avoid inter-community tensions
• I’m sure readers can think of many more examples

Here are a group of (IMHO) idiots displaying an excellent example of “suicidal empathy“:

And here’s an example of the welcome our queer friends can get when visiting the more fundamentalist Arabian countries:

The limp-wristed, leftist, West-hating Guardian supposed ‘newspaper’ discussed Saad’s book among other works critical of empathy, characterizing the topic as a right-wing effort “…to dismantle and discredit one of the essential tools for any society – our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering. We should see the campaign against empathy by Trump supporters for what it is: a flashing red light warning of fascist intent“.

What I found rather jolly in the Wikipedia explanation of “suicidal empathy” was the list of suggested closely-related topics. I think these tell us more about “suicidal empathy” than the Guardian ‘newspaper’ article:

• Virtue signalling
• Hyper-empathy
• Empathy gap
• Empathy-altruism
• Danger to rescuer
• Paradox of tolerance
• Stockholm syndrome
• Useful idiot
• Xenocentrism
• The Farmer and the Viper
• The Scorpion and the Frog
• Chickens for Colonel Sanders
• Turkeys voting for Christmas