00:06:44.300But when I visited Sweden, I was in Stockholm and I would go to some of these, you know, whatever, just places you go to hang out, get a cup of coffee or go to a bar.
00:06:53.420And I got the feeling that the right wingers in Sweden are very right wing.
00:06:59.800You know, it's like these countries that have gone down the road of suicidal empathy.
00:07:06.840And then, for instance, someone in London, you've got Tommy Robinson, right?
00:07:11.500I mean, I don't even describe him as extreme.
00:07:13.420I'm not saying he's extreme right wing. To me, he is a he's obviously he's against the immigration that's happened there.
00:07:19.920They've painted him as a far right person. But do you notice in Europe, for instance, the far right in France, the far right in in in England and in some of these Nordic countries, there is a growing backlash.
00:07:33.360It may be smaller than the United States, but it's kind of very powerful.
00:07:36.340yeah but for about 20 years now i've been warning people that the backlash was going to come in one
00:07:45.900form or another we can either resolve this issue peacefully but that window is closing very rapidly
00:07:52.880or the auto correction will eventually take place people will wake up out of their stupor and when
00:07:59.820they do it won't be pretty and so you know as someone i don't know how much you know of my
00:08:05.500personal history, you know, we escaped the Lebanese Civil War, we're Lebanese Jews. So that from which
00:08:11.240I escaped in the 1970s is exactly where we will be heading if we don't resolve this problem. Now,
00:08:18.100many people would always say to me in the past, oh, but professor, you're being hyperbolic. Do you
00:08:23.040really think that it's going to happen here? Well, you have to have the capacity to extrapolate into
00:08:29.240a future. It's not going to become Beirut tomorrow, but give these patterns enough time
00:08:35.460to flourish, and it will be Beirut. It might take 100 years, but it is inevitable. If we don't0.88
00:08:41.740resolve this issue, it'll be bad for our descendants. I would say that in Lebanon,1.00
00:08:49.800you know, we're talking about these European countries that have experienced a backlash or0.99
00:08:54.160an awakening, whatever you want to call it, a red-pilling. I would say that Lebanon is one of0.97
00:08:58.920these countries, whether it's the Christian community in Lebanon or the Jewish community
00:09:03.220in Lebanon, was it because it was particularly bad, what happened in Lebanon over the past
00:09:24.800So what the Democrats are trying to promulgate in the United States, they simply need to look to Lebanon to see what happens when everything is organized along.
00:09:37.320In the case of Lebanon, it's along religious lines.
00:09:39.800So in Lebanon, your internal ID card, I mean, it didn't matter how tall you were or what your name was or what your eye color was.
00:09:47.680What was most important is which religious group you belong to.
00:09:51.280So in the case of the Jews, we weren't even called Jews in Arabic, we were called Israelite.
00:09:57.000So if you were stopped by a particular militia group on a roadblock when the civil war started
00:10:03.000and they said, give us your internal ID papers, and it's written Israelite on you, they don't
00:10:09.200remember that you're also Lebanese and that you speak Arabic.0.99
00:10:12.140You're an Israelite, here comes the bullet to the head.0.98
00:10:15.260Lebanon, by the way, is a confessional parliament, meaning that each of the parliamentary positions0.99
00:10:20.720is allocated depending on your religion the president and the prime minister and the speaker
00:10:26.440of the house always have to be of a particular religion so no place where you have this type
00:10:33.520of tribalism ever ends up well whether it be rwanda or the balkans or iraq or syria so i wish
00:10:40.500that the united states wouldn't go down that road of balkanization let's talk a little bit about
00:10:46.540empathy versus sympathy because sure to me empathy is almost like a literary thing you know
00:10:53.100empathy was you know you're reading a book you have to empathize with the lead character or if
00:10:57.240you're watching a movie even if it's like tony soprano there's empathy you know he's bad but
00:11:02.780the only way the drama is going to work is if you put yourself in their shoes um contrast that with
00:11:08.460sympathy why is it empathy why aren't we why why isn't it called suicidal sympathy right uh so very
00:11:15.820early in the book, I actually speak exactly to the point you made. And I state right there that
00:11:21.600I'm going to use, because colloquially, the terms sympathy, empathy, compassion are pretty much used
00:11:28.740interchangeably. Now, there are very, very granular and boring distinctions, certainly in
00:11:35.300academia. There are even 40, I think it was 43 definitions of empathy in the academic literature.
00:11:42.200But we all understand exactly what it means.
00:11:45.840It's exactly what you said you want to put.
00:11:47.580So I feel your pain would be a form of affective empathy.
00:11:52.560I understand your pain would be cognitive empathy.
00:11:56.460Sympathy would be, for example, when somebody dies, you say, my sympathies.
00:12:00.840It's a bit more passive than empathy.0.99
00:12:03.140So if I empathize with Guatemalan illegal immigrants who don't get the benefit of sharing1.00
00:12:10.960in the experience of living in the United States, then I'm going to be even more proactive
00:12:16.240and I'm going to ask my senators to enact open door policies because all people should
00:12:23.200be allowed to come into the United States and benefit from its largesse.
00:12:27.120So empathy is technically a bit different from sympathy, but for our purposes, we can
00:15:21.980Some of the people that you're probably thinking of were people that I knew well were, I mean, they were maybe if not friends, they were, you know, acquaintances of mine that have invited me on their show to see them now spend all day talking Israel, Israel, Israel.