Joe Rogan Experience #2497 - Gad Saad

The gist

1. Saad argues empathy itself is not the problem, but excess empathy combined with ideological capture disables critical thinking and harms the people it aims to help.
2. Saad says the blank slate belief that all differences are purely social ignores biology and leaves people vulnerable to ideas that promise control over outcomes they cannot fully control.
3. Cultural relativism, Saad argues, strips people of the judgment needed to assess whether immigrant populations will assimilate, leading to what he calls suicidally empathetic open-border positions.
4. Saad contends that accepting large immigrant populations without assimilation standards gradually transforms a nation's values and institutions across generations.