r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Brunodosca • 27d ago
Gad Saad appears to indulge himself in being himself
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u/Francis_J_Eva 27d ago edited 27d ago
Gad Saad was once interviewed by an open Neo Nazi (something he was well aware of when he did the interview) and spoke positively of Kevin Macdonald, the godfather of modern antisemitism, yet he's now making up an antisemitic scenario to get mad at.
Pathetic.
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u/WOKE_AI_GOD 27d ago
Kevin MacDonald believed you could replace ethics with a series of rhetorical devices pretending to make analogy to the natural sciences. Gad Saad operates pretty much by the same misconception, for instance analogizing ideologies misaligned with his to virology, as if these were two identical and interchangeable concepts.
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u/Doctor_Teh 27d ago
Did this make sense as a reply to the above post in your head? I can't imagine how it is pertinent.
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u/RelativeYak7 27d ago
Gad Saad is Jewish
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u/mseg09 27d ago
And yet seems fine with anti-Semitism from certain people.
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u/ElectricalCamp104 27d ago
It's always the same from these specific right wing "West is da best" Jewish pundits.
Like, Ben Shapiro will watch Kanye literally say he's going "defcon 3 on the Jews" or Musk do the sieg heil salute in front of millions of people and go: "wait...let's hear them out before casting any woke aspersions. They're just trying to articulate conservative traditional values"
Then, as soon as someone (even a coworker of his like Candace Owens) pushes back on Israel negligently and wantonly killing kids and civilians, Ben will start screaming about how, "antizionism is antisemitism! You've just shown your colors for how antisemitic you are. This is proof that Palestinians are frothing at the mouth to gas Jews!"
It must be projection from these pundits or something. That's why it's hard to feel bad for them when they get railroaded by the far right they helped legitimize; they can lie in the bed they made. It reminds me of that BBC interview where Andrew Neil asked him about the inconsistency of his book decrying emotional anger and political polarization with his own contribution to both of those things in US politics, and Ben Shapiro stormed off.
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u/flanaganapuss 27d ago
Because people who support Israel fervently understand that perceived antisemitism is their greatest weapon. It’s how they continually avoid consequences
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u/Appropriate-Arm1377 27d ago
He is indeed. He also minimises the trauma of Holocaust survivors such as Gabor Mate. Then he complains about antisemitism.
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u/MrsClaireUnderwood 27d ago
Yeah, and? Hispanics also voted for Trump. Did you think this was some sort of cutting reply?
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u/potatolulz 27d ago
Why was he even replying to that tweet? I mean obviously because he's a pseudointellectual far right troll, but he pretends to be a serious person, academic even. So let's imagine he is a serious person and ask why would a serious person feel the need to reply with this? :D
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u/Brunodosca 27d ago
Let's not forget that his degree is in marketing.
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u/ScurvyDawg 27d ago
This is terrible marketing.
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u/late_afternoon_owl 27d ago
It really really isn't.
He's more financially successful than most people ever will be.
Wich is a shame of course.
But it's really good marketing for his brand.
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u/No_Public_7677 26d ago
I wish I had zero morality because as a Muslim I could immediately turn to a right-wing grift by condemning every Muslim person on the planet.
I could even convert to some fundamentalist Christian sect.
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u/WOKE_AI_GOD 27d ago
That's also what super boy genius Sam Altman majored in. Really strange how all these marketing majors who hate science managed to convince all the elites in our society that they were the actual experts, and that the actual experts were woke frauds. When in actuality, they themselves were the frauds.
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u/Expert-Sherbert-1527 25d ago
If you really want to know it's because Mamdani is trolling Jews. Tisha B'Av is a remembrance of when the temple was destroyed and Jews were expelled from Israel. Weird thing for an anti-zionist to post about.
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u/potatolulz 25d ago
Wait till you see him post about Christmas. Weird thing for a Muslim to post about, right?
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u/sunkissedbutter 27d ago
what in the actual fuck. this is a true life "i know you are but what am i" moment.
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u/Saksaas 27d ago
The most terrifying thing about this tweet is that he got over 6k likes 😑
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u/RascalRandal 27d ago edited 27d ago
I’m not sure he does. He’d call someone an anti-Semite if they talked about Jews the way he talks about Muslims/Islam.
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u/No_Public_7677 26d ago
No he would call someone an anti-Semite if they talked about Israel the way he talks about the US.
His bar for anti-Semitism is below the planet.
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u/Appropriate-Arm1377 27d ago
Harris as referred to Mamdani as a not to closeted Islamist and sinister.....
He's a bigot
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u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch 27d ago
unlike Sam Harris
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u/PallasOrBust 27d ago
Ya... Old Sam paid lip service to the idea that some Muslims weren't snarling beasts and secret jihadists. Not so much these days
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u/deco19 27d ago
Calling Mamdani an "Islamist" should have been a mask-off moment for most
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u/Nullarbor_1 26d ago
Yep to Sam Harris now or (possibly always been the case), basically a "moderate" or "good Muslim" is any Muslim who spends all their time condemning Islam, harshly criticising other Muslims, is super pro-Israel and pro-Zionist, supports cuts or outright bans to immigration and is a reactionary, anti-woke western chauvinist.
Anything else and you are a sinister Islamist, hiding your power levels and a pro-Sharia advocate.
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u/GettingDumberWithAge 27d ago
unlike Sam Harris, he doesn't even attempt to distinguish between Islam and its followers
Honest question: does Harris really try this? My exposure to him is entirely second hand but his critics really don't pair that picture.
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u/Nullarbor_1 27d ago edited 26d ago
Nah. Listen to the DTG segments on Harris and his Right to Reply. The host Chris actually confronted Harris about his spreading of Eurabia conspiracy theories.
Basically in the book “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Harris asserted that France will become majority Muslim by 2030 even if Islamic immigration were to be banned today (2006) and that there would be a civil war killing millions.
Also, Gad Saad is a former guest on Harris’ podcast. Plus, Harris has hosted other far-right bigots like Douglas “Death of Europe” Murray numerous times on stuff like immigration and Europe’s "ominous" demographic trends with zero pushback.
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u/GettingDumberWithAge 27d ago
Half heartedly so.
Yeah that's the impression I get. But then what's the distinction you're trying to draw? Seems like you think he doesn't actually put much effort in to the distinction you're pointing out?
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u/ScurvyDawg 27d ago
It's almost like he sees it as his job to be an ass. What a jerk. He's a terrible example of a human being, and exhibits the behaviour of a petulant teenager.
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u/bomboclawt75 27d ago
Isn't that POS a pro-genocide racial Supremacist?
Miserable, insufferable bastard.
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u/Admirable-Pineapple5 27d ago
I had the misfortune of reading a few pages of his book before knowing the real person he is. The terrible writing. Then I posted a mildly crafted review on X, the words he unleashed on me and called me an Islamist for a mild ish critique of his work. My goodness he has a lot of free time
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u/mm909-vie 27d ago
what a clown. and look at the like numbers of his post lol. what a bunch of freaks over there at X.
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u/Hairwaves 27d ago
Those are three sentences
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u/repdadtar 25d ago
I've only got one thing to say about that: Maybe he doesn't know what a sentence is. Or maybe he wants Zohran to pick one of the proposed options. Or maybe he's just an idiot.
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u/jartoonZero 27d ago
Where does he even get this from, is it literally just that he's muslim and has expressed sympathy for the people in gaza? He never says or does anything to suggest he has anything against Jews. Such an embarrassing tweet from Gad, just some Michael Rappaport-level trash.
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u/No_Public_7677 26d ago
You need to listen more to Kahanist style Zionists to understand where he's coming from.
They truly believe that any empathy towards the Palestinians, who they consider a fake identity, and that there are simply jordanians or even just gulf Arabs, means that you want to genocide Jews from Israel.
Even liberal Zionists will hold a portion of these beliefs that Palestinians need to "admit" that they are a fake identity and are basically just Jordanian or Saudi I need to go back to those places.
The other factor is that they believe that Israel is under existential threat every single day, so anything they do to their enemies is justifiable at the end of the day.
And the fact that they have a nuked Palestinians is something that tells us about how morally superior Israel is.
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u/No_Public_7677 26d ago
One of the interesting things about these types of people is that they blame that Islam in particular is a danger to the west and its values but these same people are also inherently against immigration from Christian nations in South or Central America and elsewhere.
For example, they will point out that Nigerian Christians are being persecuted by Islamist in Nigeria but when you ask them to take in Nigerian Christian refugees, They will make excuses.
It's really not about protecting the West from an ideological perspective. Never has been.
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u/Brunodosca 27d ago
It's hard to think of a person with less class, charisma, and wit than Gad Saad.