{"id":633618,"date":"2026-07-11T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=633618"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:50:00","slug":"self-flagellation-nation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=633618","title":{"rendered":"Self-Flagellation Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Self-Flagellation Nation<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Frank Filocomo via RealClearBooks<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

You’ve probably heard the refrain before, but it bears repeating: The West is the best.<\/p>\n

As I write this, it’s nearly one hundred degrees Fahrenheit here in Brooklyn. Thank God for air conditioning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The air conditioner, by the way, was invented by the New York-born Willis Carrier in the early part of the twentieth century. Willis was, without question, a product of Western Civilization.<\/p>\n

Before the AC – which we, no doubt, take for granted nowadays – our ancestors, when faced with the dog days of summer, would have no choice but to sit on ice blocks, drink cold beverages, and fan themselves to stay cool.<\/p>\n

Many non-Western countries still resort to these old methods.<\/p>\n

The computer in which I am typing this article is also a product of Western innovation. After I finish writing this, I’ll use it again later today to schedule a doctor’s appointment, wherein I’ll likely be prescribed Western medicine.<\/p>\n

Okay, okay. What am I getting at here? Well, simply, I am proud to be a product and inhabitant of Western Civilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not all, however, feel such gratitude.<\/p>\n

In his latest book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind<\/em>, Gad Saad documents the myriad ways in which Westerners today engage in ethno-masochism and self-flagellation.<\/p>\n

“The suicidally empathetic person,” Saad writes, “feels guilty that they were born in the West, whereas others were not as fortunate.”<\/p>\n

To be sure, we do indeed have it good here. <\/strong>And there’s nothing wrong with having empathy for those who’ve never experienced Western living.<\/p>\n

Under Maduro’s rule in 2017, starving Venezuelans were literally stealing animals<\/a> from the Zoo with the intention of eating them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s not a problem we have here in the West. It’s natural to pity such people.<\/p>\n

It is when our pity becomes excessive, to the point where we are hurting our own in the pursuit of altruistic ends, that we encounter civilizational decay.<\/p>\n

While reading Saad’s book, which relates dozens of stories of “privileged” white Westerners forgoing their own welfare to appear morally virtuous, I recollected the now-famous tiff<\/a> between Trump advisor Stephen Miller and then-CNN journalist Jim Acosta, wherein Acosta basically argues that our immigration policy should be dictated by the Emma Lazarus poem tacked onto the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”<\/p>\n

I don’t know, Emma. I’m not sure that’s always such a good idea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Saad rightly notes throughout the book, non-Western immigration has fundamentally altered the identities of many once-great European nations, rendering them nearly unrecognizable.<\/p>\n

That Islamists come here with the intention of bringing with them their illiberal and theocratic cultural attitudes is of no concern to the wide-eyed liberal, who is more fearful of coming off as “Islamophobic” than they are of being sexually assaulted by Muslim grooming gangs.<\/p>\n

“Suicidal empathy,” Saad writes, “leads to caring more about the rights of rapists and felons than their victims.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right-wing shock jock and host of Get Off My Lawn<\/em> Gavin McInnes once quipped that the Left is so tolerant that they tolerate the intolerant.<\/p>\n

Truer words have never been spoken.<\/p>\n

Equipped with a sardonic wit, Saad plays the Left’s language game. Just as we’ve been coached to say “undocumented immigrant” when referring to illegal aliens – the correct term – Saad, in a dark but humorous attempt to demonstrate his Suicidally Empathetic bona fides, refers to rapists as “undocumented lovemakers.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be sure, some readers might find this dark humor to be flippant and distasteful. I’m a bit ambivalent about it myself. Still, the point holds: to the Suicidally Empathetic Left, it is more important to demonstrate tact and<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/10\/2026 – 20:50<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Self-Flagellation Nation Authored by Frank Filocomo via RealClearBooks, You’ve probably heard the refrain before, but it bears repeating: The West is the best. As I write this, it’s nearly one hundred degrees Fahrenheit here in Brooklyn. Thank God for air conditioning. The air conditioner, by the way, was invented by the New York-born Willis Carrier… Continue reading Self-Flagellation Nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}