The Parasitic Mind
Given that feelings are the engine by which one’s existence is validated, a culture of offence has taken shape where it pays to be a member of the perpetually aggrieved. This creates the competitive urge to be positioned advantageously in a victimhood hierarchy. The Oppression Olympics (also known as Victimology Poker) is the arena wherein this com
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competitive intersectionality.
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postmodernism as intellectual terrorism.
Gad Saad • The Parasitic Mind
Postmodernism: Intellectual Terrorism Masquerading as Faux-Profundity
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“biological essentialism”
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Many idea pathogens share one common thread, a deep desire to liberate people from the shackles of reality.
Gad Saad • The Parasitic Mind
when one’s ideological commitments are paramount, the rejection of scientific facts becomes the necessary collateral damage.
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Social constructivism proposes that the great majority of human behaviors, desires, and preferences are formed not by human nature or our biological heritage but by society, which means, among other things, that there are no biologically determined sex differences, but only culturally imposed “gender roles.”
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” —Voltaire