I\u2019ve been hoping aggrieved Lefties would take a day off from raising my ire. How can I be expected to virtue signal with an even hand when wounded millennials pop up on my Twitter feed every five minutes? The fruit of the Left seemingly caters to midgets, which makes it awfully difficult to pass up. At this point, one wonders whether it\u2019s a strategy to dodge charges of ableism. But I digress.<\/p>\n
Since these gentle folks aren\u2019t taking any vacation days, let\u2019s put them to one side and turn our attention closer to the centre. I\u2019ve previously written about the myopic liberal-conservative alliance borne out of opposition to the far Left, but the behaviour of certain \u201cmoderate\u201d figures increasingly strikes me as more than a little troubling. With that in mind, I\u2019m going to offer my thoughts on some of the more prominent people straddling the Left\/Right divide.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with Gad Saad. Here we have a college professor who appears to have fallen in love with being a minor e-celebrity. More importantly, Gad seems to be on a personal journey toward the political fringe. Can he legitimately market himself as part of the centre when he enthusiastically supports Donald Trump, tries to shame ex-Muslims into putting themselves in danger, and parrots hypermasculine Alt-Right terms like \u201ccuck\u201d and \u201ccastrati\u201d without the merest hint of irony? Gad communicates like a man who needs to tuck his dick into his sock, yet looks like a hypogonadic gnome. If only\u00a0self-awareness was his biggest problem.<\/p>\n
Gad’s\u00a0attempts to shame a prominent ex-Muslim for her decision to remain anonymous is what I find most egregious. For those unaware, he\u00a0has something of a running feud with an ex-Muslim known as Eiynah (@NiceMangos), host of the Polite Conversations<\/em> podcast. During an unhinged Twitter tirade, he repeatedly suggested that there is something cowardly about her anonymity. We\u2019re living in a world where ex-Muslims are brutally murdered for leaving the faith, yet this crusader for secularism is apparently eager to create more victims. There is nothing brave about putting oneself in harm\u2019s way for no reason. Ex-Muslims who already have their identities exposed are certainly brave, but that\u2019s quite different from\u00a0purposely inviting risk. Any reasonable person would class that as stupidity, not bravery. Gad is either oblivious to the distinction or loathes Eiynah so much that he has simply abandoned compassion and common sense out of spite.<\/p>\n If you are going to hurl endless insults at people who risk everything to speak openly, don't be anonymous. You live in Canada & are not<\/p>\n — Gad Saad (@GadSaad) December 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n