Girvan Dave

“What’s it called when you go out into the forest and other men follow you? Leadership. What’s it called if the same man goes out into the forest on his own? A walk.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Several years ago, Tal Nitzan, then a doctoral student at Hebrew University, authored an award-winning paper that examined the incidence of rape as perpetrated by Israeli Defense Forces on Palestinian women. Undoubtedly, the goal was to uncover an epidemic of rape to demonstrate how diabolical those evil Jews truly were. When no such empirical reality was found, it was concluded (you might need to sit down for this) that this was proof of the extent to which the Israelis dehumanized the Palestinians.59 They were so hateful that they did not even consider the Palestinian women worthy of rape! If rapes are uncovered or if none are discovered, the same conclusion is reached: the Israelis are diabolical. All roads lead to self-flagellation and self-loathing. It’s the hallmark of a true “progressive.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“[I]s it not the case that we live in an age of emotional incontinence, when they who emote the most are believed to feel the most?”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense