What podcasts say about Gad Saad
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What Gad Saad has said on podcasts
19 statements · 7 positive · 9 negative · 3 neutral
Hairworms cause wood crickets to enter water, enabling the parasite’s reproduction.
“The hairworm needs the wood cricket to happily and merrily commit suicide by jumping into the water, because that's the only way that the hairworm is. Can complete its reproductive cycle.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 5:01
Hyperactive or misdirected empathy can produce harmful “suicidal empathy.”
“If it's hyperactive, if it is invoked in the wrong situations toward the wrong targets, you end up with suicidal empathy.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 7:57
People are born with differing proclivities toward crime, athletic achievement, and intellectual achievement.
“there are individual differences that people are born with different proclivities, eventually of committing crimes, or of being NBA players, or of being the next Einstein.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 12:25
Cultural relativism causally supports suicidal empathy toward open borders.
“And that lays the foundation for then the suicidal empathy of open borders.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 16:50
Political Islam is an inherent feature of Islam, according to Saad.
“So political Islam and Islamism is an indelible inherent feature of Islam. Much of Islam is Islamism.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 33:41
Saad attributes ten percent of Iran’s regime origins to U.S. influence and ninety percent to the regime itself.
“Let's ascribe 10 out of the hundred points to whatever power the US wields in that region to have allowed that regime to come in. But that regime carries the other 90 points of the 100”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 52:58
U.S. efforts to impose democracy in Iraq reflected a failure of cultural theory of mind.
“that's because of the Americans lack of cultural theory of mind. Because they presume that the desire to have democracy around the world is exactly what everybody wants.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 58:29
The United States wields its power relatively gently compared with its alternatives.
“Does it wield its power in the most gentle ways compared to what it could do and compared to what other societies, if they had that power, would do? I think America does pretty well.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:06:31
Saad attributes 80% of his support for Israel to shared foundational values and 20% to Jewish identity.
“I would say 80, 20 former for the latter. Meaning that I am defending the civilizational values of Israel in a very, very difficult and belligerent neighborhood.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:11:24
Saad assesses Islam as a violently expansionist ideology.
“It is a violently expansionist ideology.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:24:51
Market-dominant minorities tend to generate resentment and envy from less-successful majorities.
“Wherever you have market dominant minorities, you have animus towards that group because the greater group, many of whom are not being successful, look at that group with animus, with envy.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:35:17
Saad attributes Jewish group success partly to cultural values in Jewish homes.
“For whatever reason, whatever is in the water of the Jewish home, they tend to excel.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:37:26
People should prioritize their resident country’s interests over Israel’s when the interests conflict.
“If there is a conflict between the best interests of the country that you reside in versus Israel, you should always side with the former.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:43:51
Most anti-Israel sentiment is ultimately rooted in antisemitism, Saad argues.
“I think most of the anti Israel sentiment, ultimately, if you scratch enough the onion and peel enough, the stuff is rooted in Jew hatred.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 1:55:22
Reducing childhood anti-Jewish brainwashing could improve Israeli-Palestinian relations.
“In my utopia, it would be to try to catch the brainwashing that happens straight out of the womb”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 2:21:33
Israel is a Jewish-majority country where everybody has equal rights, Saad asserts.
“It's a Jewish majority country. But it's a place where everybody has equal rights.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 2:25:19
Israelis rank among the world’s highest populations on happiness measures.
“Israelis score as one of the highest on the happiness scales.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 2:26:14
Montreal’s demographic and cultural changes will produce a slow decline over the long term.
“It's a slow death it'll take. You have to have the imagination to extrapolate into a distant future.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 2:36:35
Muslim populations reaching 6–10% allegedly begin creating Sharia no-go zones.
“When you become 6 to 10%, you start creating Sharia no go zones.”
Open the episode · #2497 - Gad SaadListen at 2:39:04
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