Shapiro: Yes because if someone called me a racist
without evidence they are definitionally a dumbass.
Student: I've been watching you for years now.
And I've read your book
on the arguments to fight against people like me
and I feel bad because like for the most part
the people that have been arguing against you
aren't nearly as elegant or eloquent as they should be.
But I just had to ask,
so one of your points you very strongly make
is that it's unfair for people like me to label you
as a racist or a bigot just as a smear tactic.
But have you ever acknowledged that
maybe it's not a smear tactic,
but it's based on things you've said?
For example,
on the Israel-Palestine conflict
you call the Arabs,
yeah you already know I'm going to say.
[audience laughter]
I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't meant to presume.
Shapiro: I've written several full columns about it.
I've talked
about how people don't read the followup tweets.
Student: I've read some of the tweets
and the tweets were just as bad.
I mean, you say a lot of things
that are just racist.
But then if I call you a racist,
then you defend it by saying I didn't read enough.
So what I was going to say before, you say the Arabs...
Shapiro: Okay, fine. So give me my racist tweets in context.
Yeah, you came prepared so do it.
Student: So you said the Arabs like to bomb crap
and live in open sewage.
You before that said Israelis like to build.
Shapiro: Okay, now the follow-ups
because you said the follow-ups didn't make it any better.
Student: Well, there's separate things that you said
that were also pretty bad.
Shapiro: No, no, I want the follow ups to that one though.
Student: Follow ups to that specific tweet?
Shapiro: Would you like me to get them?
I'll get them.
Student: If you have them sure.
Student: Do you mind if I continue while you do that?
Shapiro: Well, I'd like to take them one by one.
Why don't we do this?
Why don't we delay that one until the end
while I look this up from the podium in front of 600 people.
[audience laughter]
Student: On that particular issue,
you've also said that the Arab Palestine populace
is constitutes the most evil population
on the face of the planet.
Before you said that you've never brought up religion
when it comes to abortion,
but I don't think that you've avoided religion
when it comes to the Israeli conflict.
And I don't know that you can be completely unbiased
on the issue given that...
Shapiro: Well I can be unbiased on the subject
that the Palestinians have elected
three terrorist governments to form a unity government
with the stated goal
of the destruction of the state of Israel
and the murder of all Jews in the area.
So that I can be relatively unbiased.
As far as the idea that the Palestinian population...
[audience applause]
As far as the idea that the Palestinian population
is more evil than other populations,
they certainly hold more evil views than other populations
by poll statistics.
By how many Palestinians approve of terror attacks.
By how many Palestinians voted for
the actual terror group Hamas
and another actual terror group, Palestinian authority
and another actual terror group Islamic jihad.
I don't think that all views are equal,
and I don't think that people who hold evil views
are necessarily good.
I'm sorry if the polls don't support the idea
that everyone is equally wonderful,
but everyone is not equally wonderful.
I'm looking up these statements now
if you'd like to give me a second.
Student: You've continued, you deny secular Zionism and...
Shapiro: Okay so here I've got this one.
I guess I'll finish that one then we can move.
Okay ready?
There are many, many Christian and Muslim Arabs
who are wonderful people,
just not the ones who oppose Israel,
and the Israel-Arab conflict.
That would be the response within the same Twitter thread.
Okay in the post re: Israelis versus Arabs,
I wrote about Arabs who take part
in the Israeli-Arab conflict,
as anyone who can read knows hashtag dumbasses.
[audience laughter]
Quote, I think it has much more to do
with the fact that the Palestinian leadership
supported by the Palestinian population
uses millions for terror.
I should have been more specific.
Arabs who actively seek Israel's destruction.
Those would be the follow-up tweets.
Does that sound like a genocidal mania to you?
Or does it tell me I'm specifically labeling
a group of people who have called for Israel's destruction?
Student: I like to point out that you're not a racist,
but they're dumbasses and you're allowed to insult them.
Shapiro: Yes,
because if someone calls me a racist without evidence,
they are definitionally a dumbass.
Student: What is genocide, wait...
[audience applause]
Student: So you said that
you want to be like Churchill, right?
And after the allies,
when they moved the German speaking Polish out of Poland...
Shapiro: So now you're talking about a column I wrote
when I was 19 years old,
that I actually, that I morally abhorred
and denounced myself, I think six years ago
and have repeatedly and have repeatedly said
was a bad column that I wrote when I was 19 years old?
Student: Okay.
Shapiro: Okay so, next?