Ben Shapiro

riley540

im wondering what people’s thoughts are on Ben Shapiro? My fiancé listens to his podcast and he seems to be an up and coming conservative voice. Some stances are a bit far right for me, and I’m not a religeous type, but he seems like a good dude. Him and Sam Harris did a debate recently and there seems to be a lot of mutual respect between him and his counter parts. Just wondering if anyone else has thoughts on Shapiro? 

solsurfr

Big fan here. Doesn’t speak on emotion but facts. Don’t always agree with him but I like how he engages and isn’t afraid of debate.

rgambs

He's a little twerp that spews the same pathetic, demonstrably false economic theory in the classic Ayn Randian unfounded arrogance.
He's Tomi Lahren with 2 years of carefully chosen community college economic courses.

vaggar99

i didn't realize Harvard and UCLA were community colleges now.  how the mighty have fallen

rgambs

vaggar99 said:

i didn't realize Harvard and UCLA were community colleges now.  how the mighty have fallen

It was sarcasm.

blackhawks

He seems like a smart enough guy who backs up what he says with facts.  Which is better than the memes you usually see on here (rimshot)

riley540

He seems to be more respected that most conservatives. Him and Sam Harris have done some events together. I don’t agree with everything he says but I’ve grown to like him 

solsurfr

He doesn’t hide and he brings facts to the table and is happy to debate them for their validity. Hes not shy about his own opinions which I think is part of his schtick but ultimately he does a good job backing his opinions up. I’ve seen him also get swayed when the opposition brings thoughtful, non emotional, contrary facts to the table. If you bring blanket statements to table, he’ll pretty much eat you for lunch. I dig that about him.

Gern Blansten

From the link...(to prove what a piece of shit Shapiro is), you're welcome

But he has a much longer history of saying reprehensible things. I’m not using “reprehensible” as a synonym for “conservative”; I’m talking about things that are frankly too offensive or too ignorant to be acceptable in polite company:

• Writing that “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage,” and saying the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ethnically cleansing the Palestinians
• Tweeting that “Trayvon Martin would have turned 21 today if he hadn’t taken a man’s head and beaten it on the pavement before being shot”
• Penning a column warning against the evils of “militant gay English” courses at universities
• Calling President Obama a “philosophical fascist”
• Saying transgender people suffer from “mental illness” in an interview
• Mocking black Americans for being excited about the film Black Panther

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17593174/mark-duplass-ben-shapiro-apology

rgambs

blackhawks said:

He seems like a smart enough guy who backs up what he says with facts.  Which is better than the memes you usually see on here (rimshot)

Yeah, he's a smart enough guy with facts.
Smart enough to cherry pick the partial facts that fit his narrative and ignore everything else.  

Go Beavers

I haven’t listened to his podcasts, but from what I know he pushes the typical fox news right wing pundit stuff where it about liberals are the problem and typical lowest common denominator themes. His twitter has all the garbage in it and my right wing FB friends that ‘share’ his links have the same polarizing content. I’m also skeptical of him claiming facts without emotions, when it not only denies basic human nature, but a lot of what he’s pushing is emotion based. 

rgambs

Very emotion based, he really falls into the right wing populist trap of caring far more about standing against "liberals" than standing for anything at all.

He also turns out memes by the dozen, blackhawks

Gern Blansten

rgambs said:

Very emotion based, he really falls into the right wing populist trap of caring far more about standing against "liberals" than standing for anything at all.

He also turns out memes by the dozen, blackhawks

He's a male Tomi with a slightly larger brain.

Merkin Baller

Ben Shapiro is a f’ing creep.