Peter Boghossian and Raymond Ibrahim, and the Cameraman
Boghossian and Ibrahim talk about why Europe is dying, but about ninety minutes in, their cameraman injects himself into the conversation, with a real time demonstration of suicidal empathy. The argument of the left on full display. And they allow the cameraman to make his points. Then after quizzing the cameraman on what exactly he believes, Boghossian makes the point the we are going to get the Europe that the cameraman is championing. The cameraman seems to be okay with that because he does not believe that Islam offers any danger to Europe. And besides, Muslims are too low of a percentage of the overall population to make much difference.
Listening to the cameraman, I could not help but reflect that this is what millions of Europeans believe. They either don't think about this at all, or they believe what the cameraman believes. And there is no reasoning with the cameraman because he has his doctrine and his dogma, and these convictions are immune to reason. As with any religion.
I love the way Boghossian dealt with this guy. He did not argue with him. He let the cameraman make his points, and then he simply asked a few questions to clarify what the guy believed. And here, if you do not understand the reality of Islam and European political leadership, you might think that the cameraman got the better of Boghossian and Ibrahim. But I think Boghossian is well aware of who is watching, both in the live audience and online. And to those people, the cameraman is simply yet another naive leftist. So Boghossian just let him dig his hole.
Ordinarily I would say that this was painful to watch. But it was not. Watching this was like watching someone predict a train wreck without realizing that is what they are doing, but you know with certainty that they are correct. By the time that the bien-pensants wake from their trance, it will be too late.
What this shows is that suicidal empathy is a choice. A warmly embraced and welcome choice. It is also a bit smug; you hear this in the cameraman's responses: He looks down on Boghossian and Ibrahim for their obvious bigotry.
This is not entertaining; this is a snuff film.