The hollow bravery of Ben Shapiro

[Magical Realist]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opini...apiro.html

"Ben Shapiro, the conservative writer, prides himself on speaking bold truths to liberal power. His shtick goes something like this: Set up a speech in a progressive bastion, ideally a college campus full of coastal elites who have never left their bubble. Spar with snowflakes who are offended by something he says about race or gender and perhaps even believe he never should have been invited in the first place. Post the exchange on the internet and use it as proof that the cultural consensus is stacked dramatically against conservatives. As Mr. Shapiro has put it: “The left has run out of aggressors to target; instead, they’ve become the aggressors, self-righteous morality police dedicated to wiping out dissenting thought.”

It’s true that campuses tend to be hostile places to conservatives like Mr. Shapiro, Charles Murray and Heather Mac Donald. But the notion that they are the cultural underdogs is bogus.

What Mr. Shapiro does on campus is shadow boxing meant to pander to his conservative fans whose values dominate mainstream American culture. If he wanted to be genuinely brave, he’d challenge some of the wrongheaded ideas held by his right-wing fans. Instead, he uses his megaphone — the website The Daily Wire — to reinforce what they already believe.

To take only the most recent example: On Monday, The Daily Wire published a video that depicted Native Americans as animated savages before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. In one slide, the video lists Native American achievements as consisting of dreamcatchers, tomahawks and cannibalism, while stating that Columbus’s arrival in 1492 assured the arrival of “math” and “the iPhone.” The animated video was actually the second one The Daily Wire posted this past weekend on the subject; the other carried the subtle title “Christopher Columbus Actually Was a Great Man.”

Mr. Shapiro and The Daily Wire aren’t alone in pandering to their readers. Over at the website The Federalist, the editors took the opportunity of Columbus Day not to examine its complicated legacy or illuminate some overlooked aspect of history but to publish an article titled “Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Is Far Worse Than Columbus Day,” which makes the case that the historical violence of some Native American peoples wash Columbus clean of his genocidal sins. “The only reason,” it says, that anti-Columbus activists “ideological idiocy has free rein today is because Europeans showed up in 1492.” That same publication had a “black crime” tag on its website until two weeks ago, which included an article titled “If You Don’t Want Police to Shoot You, Don’t Resist Arrest.” The subheading: “Every time I hear of a black man getting killed by the cops, he’s almost always a criminal thug I have no desire to defend.”....."

[Syne]

Just seeing this, huh?

You think conservative values dominate American culture? Try turning on the TV any night of the week, going to a movie, listening to the radio, or seeking an abortion or gay marriage. Shapiro did stand up to many of his fans last election by refusing to support Trump. He doesn't consider himself brave...reserving that description for soldiers and police. Shapiro also did these same speaking engagements at the same leftist colleges, like Berkley, without any protests at all until the left completely lost their minds.

Not to mention this leftist author hypocritically preaching to her own choir. Does she ever challenge left-wing ideas?


She's just whining that he's so successful and doesn't agree with her.

[RainbowUnicorn]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opini...apiro.html

"Ben Shapiro, the conservative writer, prides himself on speaking bold truths to liberal power. His shtick goes something like this: Set up a speech in a progressive bastion, ideally a college campus full of coastal elites who have never left their bubble. Spar with snowflakes who are offended by something he says about race or gender and perhaps even believe he never should have been invited in the first place. Post the exchange on the internet and use it as proof that the cultural consensus is stacked dramatically against conservatives. As Mr. Shapiro has put it: “The left has run out of aggressors to target; instead, they’ve become the aggressors, self-righteous morality police dedicated to wiping out dissenting thought.”

It’s true that campuses tend to be hostile places to conservatives like Mr. Shapiro, Charles Murray and Heather Mac Donald. But the notion that they are the cultural underdogs is bogus.

What Mr. Shapiro does on campus is shadow boxing meant to pander to his conservative fans whose values dominate mainstream American culture. If he wanted to be genuinely brave, he’d challenge some of the wrongheaded ideas held by his right-wing fans. Instead, he uses his megaphone — the website The Daily Wire — to reinforce what they already believe.

To take only the most recent example: On Monday, The Daily Wire published a video that depicted Native Americans as animated savages before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. In one slide, the video lists Native American achievements as consisting of dreamcatchers, tomahawks and cannibalism, while stating that Columbus’s arrival in 1492 assured the arrival of “math” and “the iPhone.” The animated video was actually the second one The Daily Wire posted this past weekend on the subject; the other carried the subtle title “Christopher Columbus Actually Was a Great Man.”

Mr. Shapiro and The Daily Wire aren’t alone in pandering to their readers. Over at the website The Federalist, the editors took the opportunity of Columbus Day not to examine its complicated legacy or illuminate some overlooked aspect of history but to publish an article titled “Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Is Far Worse Than Columbus Day,” which makes the case that the historical violence of some Native American peoples wash Columbus clean of his genocidal sins. “The only reason,” it says, that anti-Columbus activists “ideological idiocy has free rein today is because Europeans showed up in 1492.” That same publication had a “black crime” tag on its website until two weeks ago, which included an article titled “If You Don’t Want Police to Shoot You, Don’t Resist Arrest.” The subheading: “Every time I hear of a black man getting killed by the cops, he’s almost always a criminal thug I have no desire to defend.”....."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TruthRevolt

History
The site was launched on October 7, 2013. The site's launch was covered by Breitbart[4] and The Daily Beast.[5]

Activism
Aside from monitoring media bias, the site also allows readers to volunteer in a group known as Special Ops where people are encouraged to contact advertisers and media executives to protest biased and vitriolic rhetoric in the media.[14]

talks like a facist, walks like a facist ... must be a ....

[Syne]

Activism
Aside from monitoring media bias, the site also allows readers to volunteer in a group known as Special Ops where people are encouraged to contact advertisers and media executives to protest biased and vitriolic rhetoric in the media.[14]

talks like a facist, walks like a facist ... must be a ....

You have no clue what a fascist is. People protesting to hold media to account is not fascism.

You also dishonestly left out the fact that it was a response to leftists doing the same thing.

[Yazata]

Just imagine what New York Times writers would be saying if blacks and gays were systematically excluded from teaching positions, silenced and shouted down by straight whites in classrooms with their professors' active encouragement, and all black or gay speakers were met with violent riots intended to prevent them from speaking or anyone else from hearing them.

The similarity between the behavior of today's dressed-in-black ostensible anti-fascists and and Hitlers 1930's brownshirts is obvious. But the irony goes right over the heads of the New York Times.

[Syne]

Just imagine what New York Times writers would be saying if blacks and gays were systematically excluded from teaching positions, silenced and shouted down by straight whites in classrooms with their professors' active encouragement, and all black or gay speakers were met with violent riots intended to prevent them from speaking or anyone else from hearing them.

The similarity between the behavior of today's dressed-in-black ostensible anti-fascists and and Hitlers 1930's brownshirts is obvious. But the irony goes right over the heads of the New York Times.

Exactly. Always reverse the race or gender if you want to know if it is bigoted behavior. If it would not be acceptable behavior toward your sacred cow, it's bigotry.

[Magical Realist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3HUVIZQc-Q

[Syne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3HUVIZQc-Q

Hey, good example of why Shapiro didn't support Trump.

[Magical Realist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3HUVIZQc-Q

Hey, good example of why Shapiro didn't support Trump.

He's an alt right idealogue. He used to be editor of Breitbart.

Here he is doin what he does best---pissing people off by saying offensive things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQy70_LPS4

[Syne]

He's an alt right idealogue. He used to be editor of Breitbart.

Ben Shapiro on Steve Bannon, the alt-right
"So whatever he has in his heart, he countenances it for either political or media gain.

He certainly did with the alt-right, for sure. And that doesn’t mean that Breitbart itself has been anti-Israel—it hasn’t been. It’s a very right-wing site when it comes to Israel. It also doesn’t mean that Jews who work there, like Joel Pollak for example, have been discriminated against, because they’ll say they haven’t, and I wasn’t when I was working there.* What it does mean is that he allowed the site to be taken over and used by a bunch of alt-right people who are not fond of Jews, are not fond of minorities."


I Know Trump's New Campaign Chairman, Steve Bannon. Here's What You Need To Know.
"1. Steve Bannon Turned Breitbart Into Trump Pravda For His Own Personal Gain.
2. Bannon Uses Celebrity Conservatives To Elevate His Personal Profile.
3. Bannon Took At Least One Major Breitbart Investor For A Serious Ride.
4. Breitbart’s Staff Lusts After Trump Involvement.
5. Under Bannon’s Leadership, Breitbart Openly Embraced The White Supremacist Alt-Right.
6. This Is Precisely The Sort of Corrupt Media Relationship Breitbart Used To Abhor.
7. Trump’s Campaign Strategy Could Be The Launch Of A New Media Outlet.
8. Bannon Is A Legitimately Sinister Figure."
- Ben Shapiro


"Under Bannon, Breitbart focused on political coverage, said Shapiro, transforming from “a media watchdog website, in many ways, into a website that is reporting on D.C., manipulating inside D.C., leading charges against Speaker [John] Boehner, for example.”

Shapiro was one of six staffers to leave Breitbart in 2016, as the site found common cause with the candidacy of Donald Trump." - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/articl...n-shapiro/

Shapiro was the number one target for alt right anti-Semitic hate in 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pDRw93fk3jY

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dPMdpLMg-eM

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3uhbSGJVpEQ


So you obviously just believe what some leftist told you without ever bothering to look for yourself.