Steven Tucker reviews Gad Saad's Suicidal Empathy, which aptly compares wokeness in the West to the parasites which hijack the zombified brains of wood crickets and force them to jump into water and drown.

🇮🇳 | Communist flags burned at BJP march against India's viral "Cockroach Movement." Thousands of BJP supporters marched through Kolkata carrying bottles of cockroach spray, vowing to use it on India's student protesters. The student protesters call themselves cockroaches. The name came from BJP ministers, who described the country's jobless youth as "cockroaches" and "parasites of society." Within a day, student organizers turned the slur into a party: the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). The BJP is increasingly mobilizing its Hindutva right-wing support base against the ongoing student uprising. This follows weeks of extreme police violence unleashed by the ruling BJP against the student protests. At the march, communist flags were also burned and stamped on. BJP leaders blame the Left for the unrest. The CJP's core demand is an overhaul of an education system that millions of students see as rotten with corruption. The BJP governs most of India. But it is losing the country's Gen Z. The CJP's Instagram account has nearly 27 million followers, more than double the ruling party's.

🇮🇳 | Nearly 200 people were injured during ongoing protests of India’s “Cockroach Movement.” Police cracked down on protesters trying to reach the Parliament building in New Delhi. Students, in particular, are swarming the streets to express their anger at the BJP-led government. The CJP started as an online satirical movement two months ago. It was founded in response to central government officials calling student activists and unemployed youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society.” Now, the movement is proving capable of channeling widespread youth discontent into one of the largest street protests India has seen in recent years. One of the CJP's core demands is profound reform of India’s education system, which many see as corrupted. The party also demands the release of prominent political prisoners, such as Sonam Wangchuk. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has remained silent on the protests.

The Cattle Egret is a little sprite of the meadows and a young herdsman of the wetlands. Unlike other herons, they do not feed primarily on fish. Instead, they prefer to dwell in shallow wetlands and around marshes, feeding mainly on insects. They are particularly fond of picking off parasites and cattle lice from the backs of cattle, as well as catching grasshoppers, crickets, and other insects stirred up by the grazing herd. Often found accompanying herds of cattle and deer, they earned the name "Cattle Egret" and are affectionately known as the "herdsmen of the wetlands."

Western Civilization didn't flourish because "white males" stopped other groups from succeeding. The West thrived because of rational thought, individual rights, and free enterprise. "White males" that invented the steam engine, electric generation, the combustion engine, flight, and space exploration did not do so because they "stole" the ideas of minorities. These inventions helped lift mankind out of ignorance and hardship, improving the quality of life for all of humanity. "White males" didn't oppress the entire world, they helped make it a better place. "White males" didn't oppress everyone's rights, they invented the idea of rights and paid in blood to liberate tens of millions of people. "White males" didn't invent slavery, they ended it. "White males" didn't invent tyranny, they devised a form of government to end it. Destroying Western Civilization isn't about empowering groups that were "oppressed." It is about tearing down civilization itself so that globalist parasites can rule over all of us.