Exposing the CLASS Privilege Behind Virtue Signaling and Open-Border Empathy, with Gad Saad

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Can you help us see a little bit why there's a a real element of of classism to suicidal empathy, as well?

[00:00:08]Because it's what if I am a suicidally empathetic person that lives behind the high walls of the Vatican, I'm referring here to the Pope with all due respect to all of my Catholic friends. It's nice for me to have tears in my eyes and pontificate about how peacefully and beautifully Christianity and Islam can can coexist.

[00:00:31]And and even though there are thousands of fellow Christians that are being massacred as he uttered those words in Nigeria. Not only in Nigeria, but let's just take Nigeria. So, therefore, I could project to the world how kind I am while I stroke my luxuriant hair and admire myself in the mirror of moral preening, but I always know that I can go back to the safety of my gated armed community or my Vatican walls. That's the ideal situation. I express to the world my virtue, my compassion, my infinite tolerance, my suicidal empathy while bearing none of the cost. And if I may very briefly if if if you grant me the opportunity to explain a concept from evolutionary biology, the peacock's tail which is a very big burdensome tail, could not have evolved for its survival, you know, advantage because it actually reduces the peacock's survivability. It makes It makes it more conspicuous to predators.

[00:01:33]It makes it less likely that he can take flight and avoid predators. It actually has evolved because it confers reproductive advantage to the peahens.

[00:01:43]It's basically saying, "Despite the fact that I'm carrying this burdensome tail, shouldn't you be choosing me as a mate?"

[00:01:49]So, therefore, it's an honest signal of the peacock's quality. Now, why am I saying all this? Because an honest signal has to have a cost associated to it. Otherwise, all the virtue signaling scammers can mimic it with no cost. So, it's specifically because it is a costly signal, because it is handicapping, that it has evolved as an honest signal.

[00:02:16]Well, when the Pope sits behind the Vatican walls and says, "Christians and Muslims are beautiful friends," he is not adhering to the the costly signaling that we know from evolutionary biology because he is bearing zero costs for his virtue.