My Chat with Dr. Bruce Bawer, Author, Activist and Literary, Film, and Cultural Critic (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_318)

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Topics covered include the incursions of Islam in the West with a specific focus on the Netherlands and Scandinavia, the prevalence of identity politics on university campuses, academics' timidity in weighing in on important societal issues, a critique of postmodernism, and the application of evolutionary theory to literary criticism. Bruce's website: http://www.brucebawer.com _______________________________________ This chat was posted originally on Ora.tv back in 2016 and on my YouTube channel on April 21, 2016 as THE SAAD TRUTH_163: https://youtu.be/SuxKdm4CMRU _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hey guys, another great guest for you today, Bruce Bauer is here.
0:06.2	Let me give you a little bit of an introduction of who he is and then I'll see the floor to him.
0:09.8	He is a film, literary, and culture critic, PhD from Sunni Stony Brook.
0:17.0	We'll talk about some of his literary criticisms maybe towards the end of the chat,
0:21.0	author of many, many books, a few of which will focus on today,
0:25.0	including While Europe Slept, how radical Islam is destroying the West from within.
0:30.0	Then a second book, Surrender, appeasing Islam sacrificing freedom and then finally he's one of his recent books
0:36.8	2012 the Victims Revolution the Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the liberal mind.
0:43.0	How you doing, Bruce?
0:44.0	Okay, how you doing?
0:45.0	Great.
0:46.0	Thank you so much for agreeing to do this.
0:48.0	I know that you said that you rarely do these interviews and so I'm uniquely honored that you are, that you've agreed to
0:57.2	sit down with me. So I... Say again? Same back at you. Oh a start saying again
1:02.7	same back at all thank you sir
1:05.1	so i thought we'd start with you've got a unique personal history in terms of how you
1:09.3	left the united states and move to europe maybe you can start us off by telling us a bit about your
1:13.5	personal journey. Well let's see I studied English I got a PhD in English I was a
1:21.0	literary critic for several years, almost exclusively.
1:27.4	And then I wrote a book called A Place at the Table in 1993,
1:30.4	which is about gay rights. And four later I followed that up with a book
1:35.4	called Stealing Jesus which was a critical study of Christian fundamentalism and what happened was that after having written
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