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I Hate Ben Shapiro

Updated: Jul 2, 2018

I grew up watching Bill Maher. He is the first comedian I watched, he introduced me to George Carlin, so even though he has had despicable people on his show I still find myself watching. Bill has had shitheads like Dinesh D'Souza, and Sam Harris. Evil bitches like Kellyanne Conway, and Ann Coulter, and yet I still watch. On June 29th, 2018, he had the asshole Ben Shapiro on his show. At this point in our countries time, in this era of hell, I don't need my Friday nights to suck too. I decided I would just skip the part where Bill Maher interviewed Ben Shapiro, so I could avoid wanting to "Elvis" my television. I'm glad I did, because panelist Retired Lt. Col. Lawerence Wilkerson said that Ben Shapiro displayed the "gymnastically, intellectually" conservative language for policies that are ruthless.

Ben Shapiro has defended the Trump Administrations immigration policies, using the bullshit excuse that it's law to separate parents from children, although that isn't true. Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson showed me that it wasn't necessary to see what Shapiro had to say, because quite frankly, Ben doesn't say anything that provides anything worth while to hear.


To start with the easy reasons as to why I hate Ben Shapiro, let's start with the New York Times calling him the "cool kid's philosopher." Just by looking at him, and listening to him you don't really see "cool." You wouldn't picture him hanging out with friends, smoking cigars, having some beer, playing poker. He's and Orthodox Jew, so actually he does none of those things. Maybe poker, but gambling with Monopoly money.


The second reason I hate Ben Shapiro, and proving why he isn't cool is that he thinks the movie 'Bull Durham' is overrated. A cool person wouldn't think 'Bull Durham' is overrated. The kind of person who would say 'Bull Durham' is overrated, is the same person that uses the word "uncouth" to describe someone, yet support all of his policies. (He called Trump uncouth and that's all it takes for a conservative to be cool to the New York Times. Boy, what a fucking bar to jump to be cool).


The third reason I hate Ben Shapiro is that he's a racist. He doesn't like to be called that, but when you tweet something that reads:

"Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #Settlementsrock."

(I think all Arabs are the same, but I'm not racist). When he says the left doesn't have an argument, so they just call him a racist. Actually, no Ben. We'd just show people this tweet because that's was fucking racist what you said. Don't worry though, he doubled down on his hatred for Arabs, when he said:

"If you believe that the Jewish state has a right to exist, then you must allow Israel to transfer the Palestinians and the Israeli-Arabs from Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and Israel proper."


What's amazing about his tweet is that his own fucking hashtag proves what he said is total bullshit. Palestinians were living somewhere, Israelis come in, bulldoze their homes, force them to leave, and build new homes where Palestinians use to live. Furthermore, right now, in Israel, there are Israeli's living in homes that were built by Palestinians.

Ben is also wrong on the idea that the Israeli-Palestine conflict "is not a difficult issue." That's bullshit, and to agree with him means that like him, you have decided Palestinians are something less than human. I mean the idea of assault weapons bans get conservatives to flip their shit, I wonder how they would react to a colonial force taking their home and their land?

I'm not saying you should be for or against either side on this issue. All I'm saying is that this topic takes hours and hours of rigorous learning, and that Americans aren't told the full story. Americans are told what the term "mowing the lawn" means in Israeli political discourse. Americans are told that Benjamin Netanyahu and many Israeli's called Sudanese refugees "infiltrators."


Americans aren't taught or were told about events such as when 275 Palestinians were killed in Khan Younis, and 111 in Rafah, in November of 1956. Journalist Joe Sacco wrote a graphic novel titled 'Footnotes in Gaza.' It's about him trying to learn of what exactly happened on those days, and this is how he ends the book:

"And so Abu Juhish continued fitfully until Belal interrupted to cut to the chase. 'What is the worst thing you remember from that day?' (Belal). 'Fear. Fear.' (Abu Juhish).

"Suddenly I felt ashamed of myself for losing something along the way as I collected my evidence, disentangled it, dissected it, indexed it, and logged it onto my chart. And I remembered how often I sat with old men who tried my patience, who rambled on, who got things mixed up, who skipped ahead, who didn't remember the barbed wire at the gate or when the mukhtars stood up or where the jeeps were parked. How often I sighed and mentally rolled my eyes, because I knew more about that day than they did."


Again, I'm not asking you to pick sides, I just want to have an open mind. I want you to have mind open, that watching the news can't even begin to show you the complexity of such issues as Israel-Palestine. Ben Shapiro, and people like him, say it's a simple issue, because they're racist or have more sinister intentions (EMPIRE!). You don't need past events to prove the simple minded and not very philosophical Ben Shapiro looks at the complicated issue of Israel-Palestine. The Israeli's have killed 120 Palestinians, and injured thousands more. Liberals in the media who use to tell Palestinians to protest non-violently have remained largely silent on the matter. For those who had mentioned the number of dead, though no deeper discussion really too place after that, that was enough for Ben Shapiro to get up on his simple-minded high horse and condemn news outlets who reported this as sympathizers of Hamas. Apparently burning kites and rocks are forms of terrorism, while sniping journalists is cool, because according to Shapiro's logic those are Hamas journalists, because every Palestinian is Hamas.


The last thing I'll say about Ben Shapiro saying he's not racist. Dude, you felt like you needed to tell black people that Wakanda is not a real place. Only a racist would think that black people can't understand that 'Black Panther' is just a fucking movie. Furthermore, even if he wasn't racist and didn't mean it to be racist, highlights a lack of social skills that would disqualify someone from being considered "cool."


The fourth and final reason I hate Ben Shapiro (until I talk shit about him on another date) is that he actually doesn't care about the truth (as discussed above) and he doesn't care to seek the truth.

He has said "the police are not going around arresting black people for the fun of it." Except for the fact that in Minnesota, in 2018, 47 people had been arrested for possession of Marijuana. 46 of that 47 were African American. Just pure fucking coincidence! For Ben though, that doesn't matter, for he'll continue on ahead purposely being annoying to avoid actual debate.

For Ben it doesn't matter that a white man with a criminal record has higher odds of getting job callbacks 17% of the time, than black men with no criminal record 14% of the time. NO CRIMINAL RECORD!!!

It doesn't matter that black people receive longer sentences for committing the same crime as a white person, because racism is just something the left talks about and doesn't exist to people like Ben Shapiro.

To quote Nathan J. Robinson who wrote a great article dunking on Ben Shapiro:

"What dispirited me about Shapiro's approach is that he's clearly not actually very interested in Facts at all."


Facts are not Ben Shapiro's purpose in life. Ben's purpose in life is to be the one that racists and dipshits hold up as the person they read or listen to so that they can pretend that they are smart-intellectuals.

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