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Gad Saad
Canadian
Scientist
Born:
Oct 13
,
1964
People
Religion
Values
Women
World
You
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As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture.
Gad Saad
Culture
Weary
Protection
Parents
Our
Kidnapped
Religious
Someone
Support
Individuals
Institutional
Said
Am
Lebanon
Were
Persecution
Discrimination
Escaped
Ethos
Who
Fully
Beirut
Whose
Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail.
Gad Saad
Example
Animals
Broad
Market
Range
Visual
Some
Feature
Tail
Highlight
For Example
Advertise
Mating
Themselves
Use
Strategies
Peacock
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.
Gad Saad
Single
Secularism
Religious
Concede
Public
Realm
Should
Inch
Few people are as well-situated to speak about the laudable benefits of a humane immigration policy than me.
Gad Saad
Me
People
Speak
Benefits
Immigration
Few
Humane
Immigration Policy
About
Policy
Than
Few People
One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.
Gad Saad
Political
Criticism
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Bubble
Protected
Exist
Political Views
Wherein
Scrutiny
Should
Views
Beliefs
The Christmas-New Year's holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one's mental health.
Gad Saad
Health
Mental Health
Holiday Season
Year
Mental
Holiday
Season
Sword
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.
Gad Saad
Happiness
Individual
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Primary
Freedoms
Which
Engine
In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.
Gad Saad
Life
Game
Survival
Battle
Only
Part
Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed.
Gad Saad
Religion
Rights
Practice
Defining
Latter
Secularism
Citizens
Pluralism
Seeks
Freely
Institutions
Protect
Western
Former
Whilst
Ethos
Societies
Creed
Two
Let us stop pathologizing masculinity. Instead, let us appreciate the endless ways by which men and women are similar to one another, as well as the important ways in which the two sexes differ.
Gad Saad
Women
Men
Men And Women
Important
Ways
Sexes
Similar
Masculinity
Instead
Well
Another
Women Are
Endless
Stop
Differ
Which
Us
Let Us
Two
Appreciate
There is nothing morally objectionable in stating that a country has the inalienable right to decide on the exact number of immigrants and the exact type of immigrants that it wishes to let into its borders. As part of that calculus, it is perfectly rational to exhibit preferential treatment to immigrants who share one's cultural values.
Gad Saad
Values
Country
Nothing
Type
Stating
Immigrants
Exact
Borders
Objectionable
Morally
Rational
Share
Part
Perfectly
Wishes
Calculus
Exhibit
Cultural
Decide
Inalienable
Inalienable Right
Who
Right
Number
Treatment
At the basis of a country's immigration policy is the recognition that a country has the right to pursue its interests first, and whenever it wishes to be altruistic and humane, this is instantiated without ever risking the danger of its citizens and/or its cultural values.
Gad Saad
Immigration
Values
First
Country
Humane
Danger
Recognition
Immigration Policy
Citizens
Risking
Pursue
Wishes
Policy
Without
Altruistic
Cultural
Whenever
Interests
Ever
Right
Basis
Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.
Gad Saad
Freedom
Religion
Sphere
Freedom Of Religion
Within
Does
Privileged
Public
Your
Position
If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion.
Gad Saad
Religion
Democracy
You
Protection
Secular
Liberal
Right Place
Pluralism
Freely
Wishes
Perhaps
Exercise
Western
Afforded
Forgo
Place
Then
Your
Right
Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.
Gad Saad
Science
World
Understanding
Think
Framework
About
Properly
Data
Given
Allow
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Scientific
Answer
Scientific Method
Method
Question
Precisely
Order
Us
Required
Reason
Why
Necessary
There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.
Gad Saad
Word
Nothing
Obese
About
Weight
Offensive
Person
Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in cultural appropriation of the first Homo sapiens. And so the only way I will ask you to stop being racist is to suffocate - to stop breathing.
Gad Saad
Today
You
Will
First
Think
Our
Appropriation
Way
Ancestors
Logic
Only
Were
Cultural
Stop
African
Being
Breathing
Ask
Engage
Engaging
Sapiens
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism.
Gad Saad
Knowledge
Women
Sex
Practice
Sexual
Cosmetics
Facial
Bottom
Bottom Line
Accentuate
Does
Line
Existing
Contrast
Difference
Mean
Engage
Used
My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.
Gad Saad
Truth
Dignity
Sit
Ways
Logic
Purity
Attacks
Individual
Countless
Idly
Itself
Inability
Reason
Exposed
Including
Utter
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
Gad Saad
Herd
Ruled
Out
Be Prepared
Mentality
Academia
Stick
Get
Pathological
Prepared
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.
Gad Saad
Life
Art
Daily
Nature
Our
Everything
Defines
Religious
Life Experiences
Consume
Ideas
Also
Narratives
Yes
Experiences
Literature
Much
Products
Nearly
Services
The great majority of men are attracted to feminine women who do not possess the body type of Michael Phelps. Beyonce is desired not because of her 'diabolical femininity,' but simply because of her femininity.
Gad Saad
Great
Women
Men
Type
Possess
Great Majority
Simply
Beyonce
Attracted
Majority
Because
Diabolical
Feminine
Femininity
Michael
Body
Who
Her
Desired
All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.
Gad Saad
Values
Religious
Equal
Another
Cultural
A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.
Gad Saad
Great
Values
Society
Willing
Only
Part
Identity
Which
Ethos
Extent
Defend
A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation's values and never the other way around.
Gad Saad
Values
Healthy
Nation
Society
Other
Way
Stating
Immigrants
Host
Never
Clearly
Prospective
Around
Does
Proud
Unequivocally
Expects
Adapt
No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.
Gad Saad
Ideology
Religious
Simply
Robe
Because
Pass
Get
Should
Ever
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