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21 " Those who believe in equality of outcomes receive top-paying administrative jobs. Those who believe in meritocracy are frowned upon. "
― Gad Saad , The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
22 " An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage. "
― Gad Saad , The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
23 " The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it. "
24 " Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing.”37 But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts. "
25 " Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words “diversity, inclusion, and equity” often enough, all problems will be solved. "
26 " The radical snake always ends up eating its tail. ISIS kills all Muslims who are not Muslim enough. Progressives denounce all those who are not progressive enough. "
27 " If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities—with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole—is a good place to start. "
28 " E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.” Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. "
29 " In the West, the ideological indoctrination is subtler. It is achieved by an ethos of political correctness and best enforced by creating university campuses that lack intellectual diversity. Political correctness is like the sting of the spider wasp. Recall that the afflicted spider is dragged to the wasp’s burrow in a zombie-like state and is subsequently eaten in vivo by the wasp’s offspring. "
30 " I quickly learned that most academic feminists were profoundly hostile to evolutionary psychology. "
31 " We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate. "
32 " I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [...] or juicy gossip. "
33 " Trigger warnings are antithetical to a fundamental principle of exposure therapy, a well-researched therapeutic approach for combatting generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias (like arachnophobia), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. "
34 " The next time some academics tell you how important 'diversity' is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "
35 " Free societies do no recoil and the power of satire. They recognize that all beliefs and ideologies are fair game. Once we delimit what can be satirized, we are no longer living in a free society. "
36 " Incidentally, if you are a non-racist white person who does not appreciate being accused of supporting white supremacy, you undoubtedly suffer from white fragility "
37 " Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing. "
38 " One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity. "
39 " The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups. "
40 " Oh, you are a non-binary bisexual chemist? Well this completely changes the atomic numbers of Carbon, Palladium, and Uranium. "