Dennis Prager Show - How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense
Aired: 2020-10-06
Duration: 05:01


=== Parasitic Mind Theory (05:01) ===

[00:00:00]  Really critical, and both my producer and I have already decided we're going to read it.
[00:00:05]  I've skimmed it, but now I'm going to read it.
[00:00:07]  The Parasitic Mind.
[00:00:09]  This is such an interesting way of looking at it.
[00:00:12]  When I was on, last year, I was on Bill Maher's program, Politically Incorrect.
[00:00:20]  And I, he's at real time with Bill Maher, yeah.
[00:00:25]  And he...
[00:00:28]  I was talking to the rest of the panel about how much Donald Trump lies, and I said, well, you know, it doesn't compare to the lies that permeate the society from the left.
[00:00:39]  Exactly.
[00:00:40]  Oh, thank you.
[00:00:41]  Wow.
[00:00:42]  God, you are a kindred spirit.
[00:00:44]  Can I interrupt you?
[00:00:46]  Sure, please.
[00:00:46]  Yes.
[00:00:47]  Right.
[00:00:47]  I often get tons of people writing to me angrily and saying, well, Dr. Saad, how come you spend all of your time criticizing the left and not the right?
[00:00:57]  And then I tell them, well, I inhabit the world, the ecosystem of academia.
[00:01:02]  All of the idiotic and imbecilic ideas that, you know, are contrary to reality stem from leftist professors.
[00:01:11]  So the fact that I don't spend any time, you know, critiquing the right doesn't mean that they don't have some ideas that are worthy of criticism, but that's because in the same way that a dermatologist doesn't try to solve diabetes, I'm a dermatologist, so I deal with skin disorders.
[00:01:28]  That doesn't mean that diabetes is not important.
[00:01:30]  So the reality is all of the dumb, destructive ideas that have gripped the West almost singularly come originally from leftist professors.
[00:01:39]  So why should I be equally attacking both ideas?
[00:01:44]  I don't have to do that, right?
[00:01:46]  Yes.
[00:01:47]  Well, anyway, they're not equally absurd.
[00:01:50]  I don't know what absurdity comes from right-wing intelligentsia.
[00:01:54]  In any way, in any way equivalent, symmetrically equivalent to left-wing intelligentsia.
[00:02:01]  So I gave as an example on the show, and I'm sure this resonates with you, and I'd like to ask you how this happens.
[00:02:09]  This is the key question.
[00:02:11]  Why is it happening?
[00:02:13]  So I said, here's another example of a left-wing lie.
[00:02:16]  Men menstruate.
[00:02:18]  And Bill Maher and all of them just...
[00:02:22]  Laugh themselves silly.
[00:02:25]  Nobody says that, they said.
[00:02:27]  Now, of course, everybody says it.
[00:02:30]  So how is it possible that people...
[00:02:34]  So I don't know if you...
[00:02:35]  Go on.
[00:02:36]  I'm sorry.
[00:02:36]  I don't know if you're aware of this, but in 2017, I was summoned to the Canadian Senate because the Canadian Senate was debating a bill that has since passed called Bill C-16.
[00:02:50]  Which sought to incorporate gender identity and gender expression under the rubric of hate, you know, hate crimes.
[00:02:57]  And I was brought on as an evolutionary psychologist and as someone who studies sex differences scientifically to actually argue that, no, no, trust me, there really is such a thing as male and female.
[00:03:10]  And when I did that, one of the liberal senators with great, you know, sophistry and indignation said, you are pro-genocide, sir.
[00:03:20]  And then to which I answered, you know, you might want to be careful accusing someone who escaped execution in Lebanon of being pro-genocide.
[00:03:29]  But this is the level of lunacy that we've reached, Dennis.
[00:03:32]  I missed that, though.
[00:03:33]  I have to say, so let me just repeat for me and my listeners.
[00:03:38]  You testified, was it in the Canadian Parliament?
[00:03:42]  Where was it?
[00:03:43]  It was in the Canadian Parliament and the Canadian Senate branch.
[00:03:46]  Okay, right.
[00:03:47]  Jordan Peterson and I did that.
[00:03:49]  Right.
[00:03:50]  And Jordan Peterson, by the way, for my listeners' edification, gave a beautiful blurb for the book.
[00:03:57]  Professor Saad was completely uninterested in my giving him a blurb, but nevertheless, I'm still having him on.
[00:04:03]  By the way, I am going to correct the fact that I don't follow you, and I trust that you will be extending me the same courtesy on Twitter.
[00:04:11]  Maybe.
[00:04:13]  Maybe.
[00:04:13]  Okay.
[00:04:13]  If it goes well, maybe I'll get a follow.
[00:04:18]  I'll tell you who will, in all seriousness, my wife is a Twitter aficionado, and she will be, she probably already signed up as a follower of yours.
[00:04:29]  So anyway, I want to understand what happened.
[00:04:34]  You said, and I want everybody to understand this, a professor of evolutionary biology, psychology, says, psychology, right.
[00:04:47]  Says in the Canadian Parliament in the year 2017 that men and women, what is it, exist?
[00:04:55]  What was the word you used?
[00:04:57]  That there is such a thing as male and female.
[00:04:59]  That there is such a thing as male and female.