Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad
Gad Saad is a staple of the anti-woke dark web. But his new book, Suicidal Empathy, is proof that the supposedly “intellectual” wing of the New Right is running on fumes.
Gad Saad’s new book is an attempt to create an intellectual project out of Twitter rage-bait. (Gage Skidmore / Flickr / Creative Commons)
The release of Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind is a great day for the Left. A year into Donald Trump’s second administration, many have hypothesized that intellectual conservatism may now be on life support. Saad’s book constitutes the moment the plug was pulled and the patient can officially be declared brain-dead. There is nothing even remaining for the Left to argue against. For those of us who’ve learned from and often appreciated the rich history of right-wing thought, it’s something of a melancholy moment. RIP the conservative mind.
But perhaps it was inevitable that the final kiss of death for the intellectual right would come from a middle-aged man who “ironically” dresses up as a college girl — to own the libs, of course.
A Sad Display From Saad
For those of you who don’t know who he is — likely a larger group than he’d be willing to admit — Saad is a Canadian professor at Concordia University who has spent the last few years as a major figure in anti-woke online spaces. Long regarded as a poor man’s Jordan Peterson, Saad has since grown in stature through his indomitable quest to kiss every square inch of Elon Musk’s ass. Elon has returned the favor by beating the drum for Saad’s ideas through a manic series of Tweets, frenetic even by his standards.
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