You don't need to dissect our universities to see nouveau social obedience, hurt feelings and cry babies. They are here in numbers and boy are they a handful to keep from blaming the candy floss for their sticky hair.
We havn't reached 2018 yet and our resident All Righeters are hard at again.
As usual quoting vacuous stories from News Ltd which echo more poisonous "speakers" who are somehow deemed to be worthy of serious consideration for their radical, challenging ideas.
As usual utter shite. Let's look at Ben Shapario a poster boy Alt right who the writer screamed was not allowed to speak at Berkley University. Check out this guy's form. He seems to be Milo in a suit and one degree less incoherant.
But just as rapid, incoherant and poisonous.
Ben Shapiro
Shapiro, president of
youth who already look like old men.
One of the
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“”The immature rantings of Shapiro as a college student weren't something he grew out of. Instead, his dumbest beliefs were reinforced by a right-wing culture that nurtured every nutty idea he had, and pressured him never to stray from a far right ideology. As a result, Ben Shapiro has become a
professional idiot.
—John K. Wilson
[1]
Ben Shapiro (1984–) is one of the youngest and (along with Bill Still) most visible conservatives outside mainstream media. He is a pseudo-intellectual, if we have to pick a movement conservative who doesn't moonlight as a "comedian" like
Steven Crowder, or an exhibitionist like
Milo. He has also written several books, including a "
Post-Obama thriller" called
True Allegiance. Shapiro identifies as Jewish.
Ben earned his spurs as a writer for
Townhall and
WND, but is better-known for his close association with
Andrew Breitbart—even becoming an editor (and then Editor-At-Large) for Breitbart.com. He acrimoniously resigned after Breitbart.com refused to defend one of their own reporters after she accused Corey Lewandowski (then
Trump's campaign manager) of forcefully manhandling her. Since then, Shapiro has been a frequent (and pointed) critic of
Steve Bannon and the
alt-right movement.
[2] He is perhaps best known, however, for his outspoken, direct, pseudo-intellectual, and almost entirely inaccurate criticisms of "left-wing" concepts such as
white privilege and
toxic masculinity.
He hosts his own podcast, the Ben Shapiro Show, which can be viewed on the YouTube channel of his website
the Daily Wire.
Contents
Ben-Durr
“”As a general matter, the left’s favorite three lines of attack are (1) you’re stupid; (2) you’re mean; (3) you’re corrupt.
—Shapiro,
How to Debate Liberals
One should be hesitant to read Shapiro for any reason. Whereas the ramblings of other extremists in the clogosphere can be mildly entertaining, his sheer smugness and exclusive reliance on
strawmen pretty much sucks out any potential "fun" that could be had with his articles.
Basically, Ben's shtick is to mewl about the
persecution of straight, white, conservative men in
Hollywood and
academia where "east/west coast elites" are hard at work,
indoctrinating the unwitting public into communism. (He infamously cited
Sesame Street as an example of liberal propaganda.)
[3] As shown below, just getting out of the house once in a while could easily prove how absurd many of Shapiro's claims are to readers at a personal level.
Didaskaleinophobia
He is a believer in some sort of
homosexual recruitment taking place at colleges. In full
irony mode he gets upset whenever someone accuses the right-wing of homophobia.
The Christian Science Monitor summarized his book
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth thusly,
Shapiro makes
sweeping—and many would say absurd—charges that they promote
atheism, sexual perversion (including
pedophilia and statutory
rape), and rampant
environmentalism.
[4]
It's here we discover Shapiro has this odd habit of engaging in
ad hominem attacks against anyone who is perceived to be even moderately left-wing. For instance, he labels a professor's wife "brainless" when she talked about how much she treasures the
Constitution, and in the same book he accuses liberal professors of spreading "evil". Said professor later accused Shapiro of grossly distorting aspects of this
fairly meaningless event.
[5]
Shapiro is himself a UCLA and Harvard educated
lawyer who lives in California, making him the very definition of a
"west coast elite".
Militant homosexual agenda
“”If you pay tuition, you're sponsoring the militant
homosexual agenda. If you pay taxes, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. If your child majors in English, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. Tell Billy to major in math.
—Ben Shapiro
[6]
In 2013, he published a book
Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Is Silencing America, basically a
tone argument stretched over 300 pages. For instance, Shapiro interprets a federal judge's 2010 ruling against
California Proposition 8 as "
using the power of his gavel to justify his sex life."
[7]
Ben Shapiro is also a virulent
transphobe. During a discussion about Caitlyn Jenner on the HLN network, Shapiro repeatedly addressed correspondent Zoey Tur, a
transgender woman, as "Sir", to which Tur placed her hand on Shapiro's shoulder and replied “You cut that out now, or you’ll go home in an ambulance.” While not the most polite rejoinder, it's an understandable reflex action when sitting within 10 feet of Ben Shapiro.
[8] Ben roared back "Jane, you ignorant slut" that he would immediately file a police report against Tur for battery, and that he planned to pursue any applicable charges.
[9] [10][11]
Shapiro does not believe that trans women are women.
[12]
In a stunning but not wholly unexpected display of the
Dunning-Kruger effect, Shapiro also asserted that all transgender people are simply
delusional during this discussion and argued this point with the rest of the panel including Dr. Drew Pinsky, though the good doctor had spent much of the segment up to that point explaining to him the neurobiology of sex and gender differences. Drew Pinsky is a
psychiatrist, ie. the medical specialty that specializes in both delusional disorders and - you guessed it - the
gender dysphoria that transgender people have pre-transitioning. In other words,
Ben believes he is more of an expert on the human mind than an actual expert on the human mind is.
[13]
Where's my Nobel Peace Prize?
In 2003 he wrote that
Israel should force the Palestinian population out of the West Bank, writing that "if Germans, who had a centuries-old connection to the newly created Polish territory, could be expelled, then surely Palestinians, whose claim to Judea, Samaria and Gaza is dubious at best, can be expelled." A decade later Ben decided that wouldn't work, so he now advocates doing...nothing. Just continue the "occupation" because "the problem is intractable." Genius Ben figures that will cut down on Palestinian violence.
[14]
Climate
He's a pretty vehement climate change denier. In 2007 he penned a weird article "mocking" liberals who believe in global warming and affirmed
Gore's Law.
[15] He doubled-down in another article which
compares belief in global warming to a religion, with Al Gore as its "Prophet".
[16]
His point that the Earth is not getting warmer is false, according to NOAA,
[17] and he overlooks
[18] the fact that China is a leading developer of Solar energy.
The troof is out dere
Ben Shapiro is somewhat of a
conspiracy nut. He got in some hot water when he pushed the "Friends of Hamas"
manufactroversy, but that's really only the tip of the iceberg that is his madness.
[19] He is also the founder of TruthRevolt, a
conservative media watchdog group who openly state that their mission is to "
unmask leftists in the media for who they are, destroy their credibility with the American public, and devastate their funding bases."
Shapiro has also written about
birtherism and while trying to avoid being an out and out birther, his writings are extremely sympathetic to it.
[20] He believes that it is perfectly logical for someone to believe someone as "un-American" as
Obama was born overseas, but he concludes that it's
more likely that Obama was indoctrinated with
Marxism while in an American school.
It seems he is willing to float the idea that the location of birthplaces have a possibility to change based on how he feels about them.
Along with his amazing superpower to interpret anything being fed into his frontal cortex as "propaganda", he's even able to trace it back to the source:
the (secular) Jews, of course![21]
He is also (unsurprisingly) a
DDT denier, pushing the urban myth that
Rachel Carson caused less DDT to be produced which led to millions dying of malaria.
[22]
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Shapiro