#quotes by gad saad

[timotey]

Through suicidal empathy, we can all demonstrate that we are kind and tolerant people.

Gad Saad

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Abstract Artistic Wallpaper of Green Waves with Quotes

Abstract Artistic Wallpaper of Green Waves with Quotes

Allpicts.in – If you want to get a short quote about the life you can download this image. I love to collect many quotes about life from several famous people. At this time, I would like to give you a short quote by Gad Saad. Gad Saad is a Lebanese-born Canadian Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He has a famous short quote about life and I use…

[hermitthrush]

Humans are both cooperative and competitive, and any group - from a clique of awkward teenagers to a professional soccer team to a military organization - will establish clear hierarchies. Humans are not indistinguishable and equal worker ants.  E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism “Great idea. Wrong species."  Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail.  Building a society where the primary objective is to protect one’s fragile self-esteem from the dangers of competition will only lead to a society of weakness, entitlement, and apathy.  Life is necessarily competitive; society is necessarily hierarchical.  It does no one any favors to pursue a utopian vision of society where no one’s feelings are hurt.

Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind (2020) | Chapter Eight, “Call to Action”.

[luciavergara21]

Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas.

[newbeginningsliamj]

Are you still growing?

Are you still growing?

“My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I’ve yet to learn but that is out there available to me.”  Gad Saad

Another good quote regarding personal growth is that we need adversity to achieve personal growth. Recover, rebuild and renew is the mantra of Australian Conservation Foundation Report on Australia’s…

[high-infidelity]

Seems Legit. Gad Saad.

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[TASK 049: MOROCCO]

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Laila Ghofran (56) - singer.

Pnina Tornai (54)  Moroccan / father was an Israeli diplomat from Egypt - fashion designer.

Rosalinda Serfaty (52) Venezuelan and of Moroccan-Jewish descent - actress.

Natacha Amal (48) Moroccan / Russian - actress.

Zehava Ben (48) Moroccan Jewish - singer.

Aure Atika (46)  Moroccan Sephardi Jewish / Unknown - actress, writer, and director.

Laila Rouass (46) Indian /  Moroccan  - actress.

Bouchra Jarrar (46) - fashion designer.

Yosefa Dahari (46) Yemeni / Moroccan - singer.

Samia Akario (45) - actress.

Nadia Farès (43) - actress.

Lubna Azabal (43) Moroccan / Spanish - actress.

Sanaa Hamri (42) - director and television producer.

Nora Skalli (42) - actress.

Emmanuelle Chriqui (41) Moroccan Jewish - actress.

Elisa Tovati (41) Russo-Moroccan Jewish origins - singer, actress and television personality.

Avital Abergel (40) Israeli and of Moroccan-Jewish descent - actress.

Touriya Haoud (39) Moroccan, Macedonian - actress, model, and singer.

Miri Bohadana (39) Moroccan Jewish - actress, model and presenter.

Maya Bouskilla (39) Moroccan-Jewish - singer.

Layla El (39)  Moroccan, Spanish - WWE Diva, valet, and former professional dancer.

Maysaa Maghrebi (38) Emirati and of Moroccan descent - actress.

Rajaa Kasabni (38) - singer.

Shiri Appleby (38) Ashkenazi Jewish, Moroccan Sephardi Jewish.

Hindi Zahra (38) - singer.

Reymond Amsalem (38) Israeli and of Moroccan descent - actress.

Asma Lamnawar (38) - singer.

Senna Guemmour (37)  Moroccan and Algerian - singer.

Rakefet Abergel (37) Moroccan-Jewish descent - actress and comedian.

Shatha Hassoun (37) Iraqi / Moroccan - singer.

Larusso (37) Moroccan Jewish / Tunisian Jewish - singer.

Moran Atias (36) Moroccan Jewish - actress and model.

Dounia Boutazout (36) - actress.

Shiri Maimon (36) Sephardi Jewish, Tunisian, Greek, Moroccan - singer.

Najoua Belyzel (35) Moroccan-Egyptian - singer.

Nadja Benaissa (35) Moroccan / Serbian and German -  recording artist, television personality, and occasional actress.

Hoda Saad (35) - singer.

Zineb Oukach (34/35) - actress and model.

Morjana Alaoui (34) Moroccan-French - actress.

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (33) Moroccan Berber - pop singer and music producer.

Amelle Berrabah (33) Moroccan - singer.

Malika Ayane (33) Moroccan / Italian - singer.

Wiam Dahmani (33) - presenter and actress.

Sofia Essaïdi (32) Moroccan / French - singer.

Karima Adebibe (32) Moroccan Berber, Irish, Greek Cypriot - actress and model.

Hind Laroussi (32) Dutch / Moroccan -singer.  

Mehdi Dehbi (31) Tunisian, Berber - actor.

Mor Karbasi (31) heritage is mixed Moroccan and Iranian - singer.

Zineb Obeid (31) - actress and moodel.

Amel Bent (31) Moroccan / Algerian - singer.

Loubna Abidar (31) - actress.

Maryam Hassouni (31) - actress.

Jannat Mahid (31) - singer.

Inbar Lavi (30) Polish Jewish / Moroccan Jewish - actress.

Soukaina Boukries (29) - singer and actress.

Kathleen Reiter (28) mother is of Moroccan-Jewish descent - singer.

Sofia Pernas (27) Moroccan-American - actress.

Sara Chafak (26) Amazigh Moroccan / Finnish - beauty queen.

Maroua Kharbouch (26) Moroccan - model and beauty queen.

Val Mercado (25) Moroccan - model and YouTuber.

Sarah Lahbati (23) Moroccan / Filipino - actress.

Shlomit Malka (23) Moroccan Jewish / Ukrainian Jewish - model.

Bibi Bourelly (22) Afro-Haitian, African-American, Moroccan - singer.

Mor Maman (22) Israeli and of Moroccan descent - beauty queen.

Imaan Hammam (20) Egyptian / Moroccan - model.

Rowan Blanchard (15) Armenian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Syrian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, German, Portuguese - actress.

Dounia Tazi (?) - model, singer, and songwriter.

Iman ElBani (?) - actress.

Rajae Imran (?) - actress and ex- journalist.

Leila Shenna (?) - actress.

Leila Hadioui (?) - model.

Lamiaa Alaoui (?) - model.

Fadoua Lahlou (?) - model.

Loubna El Bekri (?) - model.

Widyan Larouz (?) - model.

Amina Allam (?) - model.

Hind Benyahia (?) - model and television personality

Ihssane Atif (?) - model, writer, and television celebrity.

Ibtissam Ittouchane (?) - model.

Fati Jamali (?) - beauty queen.

Houda Echouafni (?) Moroccan, Egyptian - actress.

Kim Edri (?) Moroccan-Jewish - beauty queen.

Kineret Sarah Cohen (born 1970) Jew of Moroccan and Iraqi heritage - singer.

Danielle Ebguy (born in 1950) - singer.

Brigitte Zarie (?) - singer.

Trans:

Yasmine Petty (?) Moroccan / Italian - model.

Men:

Philippe Clair (86) French and of  Moroccan descent - actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and popular humorist.

Gérard Darmon (69) - actor and singer.

Avi Toledano (69) - singer.

Isaac Bitton (69) Moroccan Jewish - musician.

Richard Anconina (64) Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Paul Marciano (64/65) - fashion designer.

Armand Amar (63/64) - composer.

Mehdi El Glaoui (61) French and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Alber Elbaz (55/56) Moroccan-Israeli - fashion designer.

Hassan El Fad (54) - actor.

Michel Qissi (54) Moroccan-Belgian - actor.

Hassan Hakmoun (53) - musician.

Jake Weber (53) Danish, English/ Moroccan Jewish, English - actor.

Roschdy Zem (51) French and of Moroccan descent - actor and filmmaker.

Rachid El Ouali (52) - actor, producer, director and TV host.

David Guetta (49) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish / Belgian - DJ.

Driss Roukhe (48) - actor.

Danny Nucci (48) French Moroccan / Italian - actor.

Najib Amhali (46) - stand-up comedian and actor.

Omer Avital (46) Moroccan, Yemeni - jazz bassist, composer and bandleader.

Mohammed Chaara (36) Moroccan-Dutch - actor.

Zenza Raggi (46) Moroccan-German - actor.

Anouar Hajoui (46) - rapper.

Vincent Elbaz (46) Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Eyal Golan (46) Yemenite and Moroccan Jewish origins - singer.

Gad Elmaleh (46) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish - stand-up comedian and actor.

Adam Zindani (45) - guitarist.

Chico Slimani (46) - singer.

Leila K (45) - singer and rapper.

Nadir Khayat (45) Moroccan-Swedish - singer.

Samuel Benchetrit (43) French and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Saïd Taghmaoui (43) Moroccan of Berber (Shilha) descent - actor and screenwriter.

Jamel Debbouze (42) - actor, comedian, producer, director, and screenwriter.

Nabil Elouahabi (42) British Moroccan - actor.

Mimoun Oaïssa (42) Moroccan-Dutch - actor and screenwriter.

Elam Jay (42) Swiss-Moroccan - songwriter, vocalist, dancer, performer, composer, and music arranger.

Raphaël Haroche (41) Moroccan Jewish and Russian / Argentinian - singer and actor.

Mohammed Azaay (40) Moroccan-Dutch - actor.

Mimoun Ouled Radi (40) - actor.

Ahmed Soultan (39) - singer.

Isam Bachiri (39) Berber - vocalist, rapper and songwriter.

Nawell Azzouz (39) - singer.

Frank Mir (38) Moroccan, Russian, Cuban - mixed martial artist.

Jérémie Elkaïm (38) Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Adil Takhssait (38) - solo act.

Tarik Azzougarh (38) - rapper.

Omar Berdouni (37) - actor.

Mourad Zaoui (37) - actor.

Moufid Aziz (36/37) Brazilian and of Moroccan - model.

Assaad Bouab (36) - actor.

Harel Moyal (36) Moroccan-Jewish - singer.

Fu'ad Aït Aattou (36) Moroccan, French - actor and model.

Salah Edin (36) - rapper and actor.

La Fouine (35) - rapper, singer, and songwriter.

DJ A-Trak (35) Russian Jewish, Moroccan Jewish - DJ.

Ahmed Chawki (35) - recording artist.

Ali B (35) - rapper.

Moshe Peretz (34) Moroccan / Iraqi - singer.

Amir Haddad (33) Tunisian Jewish and Moroccan-Spanish Jewish ancestry - singer.

Achmed Akkabi (33) Moroccan-Dutch - actor.

Saad Lamjarred (32) - singer and actor.

Farid Bang (31) - rapper.

Fadil El Ghoul (31) of Moroccan  origin - DJ.

Marc Bendavid (30/31) Belgian / Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Benjamin Siksou (30) French and of Moroccan descent - singer-songwriter and actor..

Mamoun Elyounoussi (29) Dutch and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Khleo Thomas (28)  African-American / Moroccan Jewish - actor, rapper, singer, and entertainer.

Yanis Sahraoui (28) Moroccan-Algerian - singer.

Youssef Ben Hayoun Sadafi (26) - actor, model and fighter.

Dounia Batma (26) - singer.

Nasser Saleh (24) Spanish and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Anis Basim Moujahid (24) of Moroccan origin - pop singer.

Adam Aminé Daniel (23) - rapper.

Teo Halm (18) Ashkenazi Jewish / Sephardi Jewish (from Morocco and France) - actor.

Younes Kahlaoui (?) Moroccan / German - model.

French Montana (?) Moroccan, some Somali -hip hop artist.

Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah (?) - actor.

Ahmed El Maanouni (?) - screenwriter, film director, cinematographer, actor and producer.

Sol Heras (born in 1987) English and of Moroccan and Spanish descent - actor.

Henri Belolo (born 1936) Moroccan Jewish - music producer.

Ohad Benchetrit (?) Moroccan-Jewish - musician.

Avraham Eilam-Amzallag (born in 1941) Israeli and of Moroccan descent - musician and composer.

Yigal Azrouël (?) French-Moroccan - fashion designer.

[wmathison]

RT @GadSaad: Suppose that 50,000 different individuals all named Moses were to commit terror acts in 70+ countries whilst quoting from some "Zionist" manual, would the world have a difficult time identifying the root cause? Asking for a friend named Moses.

Suppose that 50,000 different individuals all named Moses were to commit terror acts in 70+ countries whilst quoting from some "Zionist" manual, would the world have a difficult time identifying the root cause? Asking for a friend named Moses.

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) May 13, 2018

via Twitter https://twitter.com/wmathison May 13, 2018 at 07:14PM

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Free Speech Activists Deplatform Speaker From Free Speech Event - Not The Onion

This post could alternatively be titled: *Anti Free Speech Regressive SJWs Silence Dissenting Thinker At FREE SPEECH EVENT* The irony here is really something. Gad Saad & Jordan Peterson were on a Free Speech panel last weekend, (at an event that was previously cancelled) where this time they actually justified having someone uninvited, de-platformed even, from a SACRED... 'FREE SPEECH EVENT'. I mean you know these guys right? (Please note there were two other people on stage who I don't really know much about so I will keep this post about my faves, JBP and The Gadfather, yes he really calls himself that)

I mean ...really....this is pretty much ALL they talk about.

In a hilariously hypocritical twist these Politically Correct Regressives were trying to justify silencing a 'different viewpoint' just last weekend.

Nevermind the person they uninvited was probably well worth uninviting (in my cucked leftist opinion) as she was the Rebel Media 'Journalist' Faith Goldy who appeared on the  Neo Nazi Daily Stormer affiliated Podcast after Charlottesville. But what do I know,  I'm not the one constantly advocating for & promoting alt right/light figures. It's especially rich coming from them because Saad has on more than one occasion promoted White Genociders such as this person (who also happens to be a holocaust denier, suprise surprise):

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And Jordan Peterson has himself had a friendly chat on a Neo Nazi podcast about 'Western Civilization' with a person who advocates for using violence to remove non-whites from her future fantasy ethnostate:

Host of that show is another extreme race & IQ obsessive wanting to deport non-whites. http://pic.twitter.com/QF00K9Tr3d

— Nikolashvili (@ViniKako) March 12, 2017

How do people with such associations and endorsements think they get off for disinviting someone for associating with better known Nazis/White Nationalists? Speaking of 'guilt by association', you'll never guess what Gad had to say about Faith Goldy:

Image from 'Free Bird Media' video - another outlet that appears to be White Nationalist/Alt Right friendly as the host himself claims he does associate with those types of people and doesn't appreciate getting thrown under the bus by Gad. 

 Well well well, in this situation...Gad thinks you are who you hang around with ...that doesn't mean good things for him now, does it - as someone who's literally called a holocaust denier a "Viking Heroine". Or is this standard selectively applied?

After basically begging for Infowars-Paul's approval Gad makes a weak joke about how people want to punish him for associating with people like PJW who does, by the way, also spout white genocide stuff. He had to make the joke himself you see because no one was that outraged in that moment, so he has to kind of perform the outrage to fulfill his desire for victimhood. 

Here, once again Gad disapproves of 'guilt by association' ....when it's applied to him. 

Now, let's take a look at their explanation for deplatforming Goldy,

Image from Free Bird Media. Watch the full clip here

First point I'd like to make is, that it's disturbing how softly they all tiptoe around someone they themselves just mentioned was on a Neo-Nazi affiliated Podcast after the Charlottesville tragedy. None of the panelists are able to disavow her. 

Instead it goes something like this;

Peterson: I know Faith, I don’t believe that she’s a reprehensible person (after knowing of and saying he watched her appearance on a Daily Stormer related show, which he himself didn't find acceptable to the point that he's having to justify to a full room why he, the free speech hero is de-platforming someone.) 

Peterson: ....She was associating with people who’s views she should have questioned. (Well, that's putting it mildly, Dr P.)

Peterson goes on to talk about how she should have asked some hard questions but then immediately backtracks and starts making excuses for why she didn’t challenge any views on the nazi podcast. You know who else went on a nazi podcast and didn't ask any really tough questions right? Jordan Peterson himself. In fact he's criticizing, leftist, postmodernists, "neo-marxists" in most of that conversation and even claims to the *neo-Nazi woman* he's conversing with that "their aim is to shake the foundations of western civilization to the core" - just imagine sitting with a Nazi and dumping on leftists as destroying western civilization, then going on to deplatform someone else for appearing on a nazi podcast while not asking tough questions. The hypocrisy is astounding.  

Now back to the video where he's explaining why they deplatformed Faith Goldy: 

Peterson:  ....its more difficult than you might think when you’re facing people , even if u don’t believe them, to be rude enough to challenge them. 

Just take a minute to let that sink in… JBP who is furious with liberals, postmodernists and SJWs all the time, thinks its hard to be rude enough to challenge ppl on a nazi podcast. 

You can see what his priorities are.

“...that’s not so easy, especially if you’re an agreeable person” continues Jordan 

The panelists go on to blame it on the fact that she’s a journalist and that she didn’t do her job as a journalist…lol

...as they sit next to Gad Saad who’s done a glossy softball interview with several white genociders and even a holocaust denier.

Gad says in his explanation to the audience, “…there is also a pragmatism right, you may decide you’re all for freedom of speech BUTTTTT [emphasis mine] that doesn’t mean that you invite to the dinner party someone who’s views you don’t agree with… (isn't this pretty much what people's argument has been against shutting you and your selective free-speech friends down in the past?)

And then he immediately softens the blow by jumping to “I..I’m not saying that was the case with Goldy” [Yeah heaven forbid Gad, that you do the decent thing and come out against her views openly, without hesitation, at the first go after knowing she went on Daily Stormer related media for a friendly conversation.]

Here's Gad on Free Speech when it's not being applied to people *he* wants de-platformed:

Oh - looks like we have some new 'enemies of reason', and 'intellectual terrorists' in town. 

Image from: http://ift.tt/2yUqFEQ

Guess him an his pals are fascist castratos, by this standard....because guess who used a but clause. 

Sounds like you, wanting someone de-platformed from a Free Speech event, Gad.

“So the fact that you might for some event decide to disassociate from that person doesn’t suggest that you are being hypocritical to freedom of speech” —— LOL except you’ve literally been outraged at people about this same thing before…you hypocrite!! You didn't just personally disassociate from her, you wanted her de-platformed from a free speech event. 

And here's Jordan, unable to stand for his own actions...."I didn't say we were correct". Let's face it, these guys were a mess. Maybe now they will think about why it is that people don't want to associate with them, for 'pragmatic' reasons... or with Milo. 

Anyway, their own rightwing fans weren't having it:

"Aryan Soul" was very upset indeed. 

And then of course there were the mutual fans, upset that there was any tension between these lovely people at all. 

Gad soon released another video on his channel explaining his side of what went down, excuses, excuses. By this time he'd been experiencing some hate from Daily Stormer-friendly Faith Goldy's fans so he wasn't quite as soft, but note that this change didn't come from principle, it came from Faith Goldy's fans personally attacking Gad with vile, unacceptable anti-Semitic comments. The fact she went on Daily Stormer related media still had him tiptoeing around whether he disagreed with her views or what kind of person she is. 

The Youtube comments on his video ranged from his disheartened anti-sjw fans depicting him as a buzzword using SJW to being just disgustingly bigoted.

Gad shared some of these anti semitic comments on Twitter and they truly were horrific. 

Seeing the corner he'd backed himself into by palling around with and sucking up to white genociders, white nationalists, holocaust deniers and general alt lite/right figures, made me feel quite sad for the man who had in the past instigated pile-ons on me, and tweeted angrily about me for days for just pointing out his evident shady associations...."for pragmatic reasons", you know. 

On twitter people pointed this out to him repeatedly. I wonder how that made him feel...I wonder if he actually gave it some thought, the fact that he was propping up and associating with people who would drop him the second he stopped being useful to them.

No matter how hard he panders...Gad won't ever be welcome in the ethnostate as a Jewish immigrant from the Middle East. I sincerely hope he thinks about the consequences of his actions in light of this incident.

Gad's own views about Muslim Refugees aren't so non-bigoted either, maybe some self-reflection can happen after this?

He views 25K refugees being allowed into Canada as 'collective suicide' - especially strange coming from someone who has describes himself as a refugee.

Because you know....refugees = automatic anti-Semite, cuz Muslim. That's not bigoted at all...its interesting that his anger was directed always at refugees for potential anti-semitism, but never once directed at the many far right figures he's promoted. 

I wonder how he's feeling about "right-wing extremists" right about now. It's in quotes because...you know...right wing extremism is not a real thing, right? 

Will Gad and Peterson reflect on their own associations and others wanting to 'pragmatically disassociate' from their types of viewpoints now? Or will they go on as if none of this happened and they are still the Free Speech Warriors they claim to be? 

Hopefully people will start to see through their many hypocrisies and double standards, but maybe that's a lot to ask of alt-right/lite friendly audiences. I mean some of these fans willingly refer to themselves as "Gadfellas" and make religious artwork for Peterson....which he tweets unironically of course. 

Totally normal Rational Skepticism. 

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Gad the Islamophobe

I recently listened to an episode of Sam Harris's excellent podcast "Waking Up" that featured as his guest Gad Saad, someone who's own podcast is another favorite of mine; I highly recommend both. Both Harris and Saad are academics/scientists/public figures who are highly critical of recent trends regarding free speech, postmodernism, tolerance, political correctness, and “regressive leftism”.

 That term, which I first heard used by Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz, refers to those ostensibly on the left, that often engage in regressive tactics, principally anti free speech bullying. Regressives are in the vanguard of extreme political correctness, commonly complaining about "cultural appropriation", the wage gap, patriarchy, Islamophobia, etc. For instance, in many a college campus it has become common for regressive's to target visiting speakers, show up at the event, and attempt to silence said speaker. This is often done by blocking entrance to the event, harassing attendees, rushing the stage, and in more than one instance, pulling fire alarms.

 So I am a big fan of Harris and Saad, as well as their comrades in arms Christine Hoff Sommers, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, Sarah Haider, Jon Haidt, and several others. I consider myself a liberal, but am embarrassed by what many of the same label are currently doing: silencing opposing views, demonizing all white men, creating safe spaces, trigger warnings, and micro aggressions; what I prefer to call the PC left. I guess I meet the definition of a classical liberal, of the John Stuart Mill mold, but the semantics of political labels have become very muddled lately.

 As hinted above, I'm not a fan of the term "Islamophobia". Not that I think it's a meaningless term, just that it's over used to the point of becoming virtually meaningless. Any criticism of Islam is characterized as Islamophobic by the regressive left, even the most obvious. E.g. criticisms of Islam's treatment of women or gays are labeled Islamophobia, even by feminists and gays within the regressive left. A legitimate usage of the term Islamophobia, in my view, would be towards someone who refers to “ragheads” or “sand n**gers” or wants to turn the entire Middle East in to glass or prohibit all immigration from countries with a Muslim majority; that's Islamophobia, no question. All I'm saying is that the term is thrown around a lot.

 As in the case of the term homophobia, the "phobia" part isn't precisely accurate. The definition of a phobia is "an extreme or irrational fear of, or aversion to something." Most homophobes aren't actually scared of gays, they just hate them. Same for Islamophobia, except with Islam there is an element of fear; terrorism is real, and its biggest practitioners presently are Muslim.

 Harris himself has often been (mis)labeled as an Islamophobe and even a bigot, but these charges are without merit. I've read all of his books and essays, listened to every podcast, watched countless videos, and have never yet heard a single comment that could be accurately described as bigoted. He's as harsh towards Christianity as he is towards Islam.

 Until I listened to his podcast entitled "The Frontiers of Political Correctness" I would've said the same of Saad. Saad's own personal story is very interesting and gives his views and opinions some weight. "I was born in Lebanon, I grew up in Lebanon, so my mother tongue is Arabic, we're Arabic in a multiplicity of ways...some of the music we listen to, and the foods, and if you saw us you wouldn’t know that we were anything but Arabic, the only asterisk is that we are Lebanese Jews" (40:55).

 He states he has over 100 Muslim friends. Later, he claims that in his neighborhood, if he encounters 20 women, 8 will be wearing Islamic garb. In Montreal. "I could walk out of my house, and of the first twenty women I see, eight are wearing Islamic garb" (1:21:30). (I call bullshit. 40% of the women he encounters in Montreal are Muslim?)

 But where he gets real bizarre, and makes Rush Limbaugh seem tolerant, is when he describes an incident that occurred while out with his family:

 "Close to my house, we tried to go to a children's park, and saw two women in full burka, my daughter got out, felt a bit scared, we got back in the car and left" (1:21:00).

 Covered faces are indeed to some extent frightening. Armed robbers in ski masks, clowns, ninjas, little old Korean ladies hiding their skin from UV, KKK hoods, soldiers lined up all in gas masks; all scary looking, no question. But flee the park in fear?

 Is there some right, some principle of liberty, that entitles one to gaze in to the face of all fellow citizens in order to better read them and their intentions? As Harris wisely responds, perhaps on private property one has such a right, say a 7-11 owner in reaction to someone in a ski mask. Absolutely, I agree completely. But out on the streets, in a public park? No way. No such right has ever existed in the West, nor do I know of anyone ever proposing such an idea.

 But Gad's daughters’ reaction at the playground leads me to wonder just what the fuck is Gad telling his kids at home? I mean, worse-case scenario, there is a Muslim male under the burka, right? What would be his families’ reaction if there were Muslim males there at the park, perhaps even taking prayer? Flee?

 It is not an overstatement, nor PC in the slightest, to state that Gad Saad and his family are literally Islamophobic, to the point that genuine fear, and flight, occurs when spotting Muslims. Never mind that he previously said, "Your chances of dying by murder in Canada is unbelievably small" (52:15). This is certainly true. In all of Canada, there were 19 violent acts towards Jews in 2014, the most current year for stats, resulting in zero deaths; yet, an average of 9.5 people die each year in Canada by lightning strikes.

 He also said several other things during the podcast that are troublesome to say the least. For example, he revisits this traumatic trip to the park, and expands on his theory of a “right to see [people’s faces]”:

 "If your position is that, no, let's not intrude on their right to quote choose, I actually think that my right to be able to read your facial features, since that's an evolved quality, in my communication system, supersedes your right to be in a tent, and if you want to be in a tent you don't belong here because I want to be, when I walk to that school yard, not school yard, but play park, and there were two, I'm guessing women but they could be anything right, I can't tell who they are, and they were in black and we all froze, and I come from that land [Lebanon] and my daughter got scared and we got back in the car, then my rights lost there. And therefore, no, I don't think we should allow that expression. No, I don't want that in my streets" [emphasis added] (1:42:05).

 Perhaps it’s good Gad resides in Canada. That viewpoint regarding religious expression won’t fly in the states. His right to read faces? Because the ability to read faces evolved in humans, it’s now a right? That’s not how we set out rights. Later, he seems to be claiming that he simply can’t prevent himself from stereotyping and acting on it:

 "No one probably knows more nice and decent Muslims, probably no one has more Muslim friends than I do by virtue of my background, so obviously at the individual level there's no discussion to be had, there are very nice Muslims, there are very bad Muslims, we're talking here about statistical regularity's, right, our brains have evolved to detect statistical regularity's [stereotypes], I mean that's a central feature in the architecture of the human mind” (51:29).

 Or check out this gem from the “Gadfather”:

 "There's a game that I satirize, but frankly the satire is very accurate, it's called 'Six Degrees of Kill the Jew' and the game works as follows: so basically, the way the game works is, Achmed comes to the room, I say hello to him, how many exchanges does it take before we converge - especially since I speak Arabic and therefore he certainly doesn't know I'm Jewish - before we both converge on 'let's go kill the Jews'. And the reality is, this is how it typically goes: 'Hi Achmed, how are you? Fine, let's kill the Jews’" (1:13:40).

 Then, a minute later, he admits the above stereotype is mythical: "Of the top 100 Muslims that I know, every single one of them is a lovely guy that doesn't fill the 'kill-the-Jews' stereotype, but that doesn't say anything about the greater issue" (1:15:00).

 He seems to have some issues. He is simultaneously claiming: the odds of being murdered in Canada are “unbelievably small”; that his family is not outwardly Jewish looking, “if you saw us you wouldn't know that we were anything but Arabic”; that he knows lots of Muslims and none of them are anti-Semitic; yet, if burkas are spotted, FLEE!

 In the novel Infinite Jest, there’s an organization called U.H.I.D., the Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed, an agnostic-style 12-step support-group deal for what it calls the “aesthetically challenged.” It’s a hilarious portion of the book, with a pretty absurd premise, and is milked for some great laughs*. But beyond this comedic “donning of the veil” is a more serious issue, albeit one most of us haven’t considered. Does one have a right to hide one’s face?

 Although it’s not enumerated in the Bill of Rights, I believe a person has the right to cover their face in public. For any reason whatsoever. I see little old ladies covering themselves out of fear of sunlight. I see germaphobic people wearing masks out of fear of germs. And, of course, religious people doing what their religion tells them, or what they interpret their religion to be telling them. Given the extreme importance the Founding Fathers put on religious liberty and expression, I think those values trump anyone’s desire to read faces.

 I tried to raise this subject with the man himself, via twitter, and was quickly attacked, by Gad as well as many of his followers. He used his stock insult on me, “naturally lobotomized castrati”, and mocked my curiosity on the matter. E.g. I wrote that I found his family’s reaction to seeing burkas “baffling”; he responds with: “It is ‘baffling’ why it would be jarring to see individuals wearing black tents in a play ground with hidden identities”. He goes on: “Clearly, only ‘racist bigots’ would be concerned about such an ostentatious display of openness and warmth.” Thou doth protest too much.

 In the wake of Charlottesville, I’m noticing something quite alarming: many of the folks that I considered to be basically liberals, but have a major problem with the PC left, are not liberal at all; they’re as conservative as Rush Limbaugh and just enjoy mocking and ridiculing campus snowflakes. The reaction to Harris’ tweet of August 13th, regarding white identity politics, exposed many of these folks. I don’t put Gad in the category of Limbaugh, but he’s got a dark side that’s for sure.

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  * “Well Mr. Gately what people don’t get about being hideously or improbably deformed is that the urge to hide is offset by a gigantic sense of shame about your urge to hide. You’re at a graduate wine-tasting party and improbably deformed and you’re the object of stares that the people try to conceal because they’re ashamed of wanting to stare, and you want nothing more than to hide from the covert stares, to erase your difference, to crawl under the tablecloth or put your face under your arm, or you pray for a power failure and for this kind of utter liberating equalizing darkness to descend so you can be reduced to nothing but a voice among other voices, invisible, equal, no different, hidden.

 But Don you’re still a human being, you still want to live, you crave connection and society, you know intellectually that you’re no less worthy of connection and society than anyone else simply because of how you appear, you know that hiding yourself away out of fear of gazes is really giving in to a shame that is not required and that will keep you from the kind of life you deserve as much as the next girl, you know that you can’t help how you look but that you are supposed to be able to help how much you care about how you look. You’re supposed to be strong enough to exert some control over how much you want to hide, and you’re so desperate to feel some kind of control that you settle for the appearance of control. What you do is you hide your deep need to hide, and you do this out of the need to appear to other people as if you have the strength not to care how you appear to others. You stick your hideous face right in there into the wine-tasting crowd’s visual meatgrinder, you smile so wide it hurts and put out your hand and are extra gregarious and outgoing and exert yourself to appear totally unaware of the facial struggles of people who are trying not to wince or stare or give away the fact that they can see that you’re hideously, improbably deformed. You feign acceptance of your deformity. You take your desire to hide and conceal it under a mask of acceptance. In other words you hide your hiding. And you do this out of shame: you’re ashamed of the fact that you want to hide from sight. You’re ashamed of your uncontrolled craving for shadow. U.H.I.D.’s First Step is admission of powerlessness over the need to hide. U.H.I.D. allows members to be open about their essential need for concealment. In other words we don the veil. We don the veil and wear the veil proudly and stand very straight and walk briskly wherever we wish, veiled and hidden, and but now completely up-front and unashamed about the fact that how we appear to others affects us deeply, about the fact that we want to be shielded from all sight. U.H.I.D. supports us in our decision to hide openly. But a lot of the forms of self-hatred there is no veil for. U.H.I.D.’s taught a lot of us to be grateful that there’s at least a veil for our form.”

 “So the veil’s a way to not hide it.?”

 “To hide openly, is more like it.”

 From Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

[NOTE: I fully realize there is a false equivalence between the people featured in the attached pic and two burka clad women at a playground; the point is, all the people in the pic are violating Gad’s imaginary right to read faces. (Btw, the woman in full burka is Janet Jackson and son.)]