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hold up okay so that's ben shapiro
he's a conservative commentator probably
best known for videos of him
totally and completely owning the lives
for sure his high-pitched
rapid-fire words have been weaponized by
the right and dark corners of the
internet like facebook i'm comedian joe
mandy and this
is the story of how ben shapiro went
from a low-key
breitbart columnist to an overnight
viral conservative star
well you all know ben shapiro if you
don't where have you been he's become
one of the nation's leading figures in
the effort to preserve
free speech benjamin aaron shapiro was
born in 1984
deep in liberal multicultural los
angeles california his family however
was a speck of red in a sea of blue the
shapiros who both worked in hollywood in
the film industry were jewish reagan
republicans it was the type of
upbringing that allowed him to play
violin for an audience that included
larry king
in addition to the violin he plays chess
uplifting stuff that's the theme to
schindler's list
shapiro started attending ucla early as
a young 16 year old he graduated in 2004
one year before he could drink by the
time he turned 21 he already had two
published books under his belt in 2007
he graduated from harvard law school at
the age of 23
out of school shapiro tried his hand at
screenwriting
i've written a couple comedies kind of
hour-long dramedies for uh you know
spec script and have they been bought
uh no shapiro claims he was blacklisted
by hollywood
it may have just been a height
requirement he never wrote another
screenplay
instead shapiro set up his own
consulting firm benjamin shapiro legal
consultant it's unclear when that too
fizzled out but in 2012 after
five published books under his belt
shapiro went to work for the far-right
leaning website breitbart.com
he was the site's editor-at-large and he
wrote about justifying trayvon martin's
death
and about how americans should be able
to criticize muslims in another piece
shapiro tries to dismantle the existence
of white privilege
but in march 2016 shapiro to his credit
left his post at breitbart in solidarity
with female reporter michelle field who
had been assaulted by corey lewandowski
who was then trump's campaign manager in
a resignation statement shapiro wrote
that steve bannon and donald trump are
bullies and that bannon had shaped the
company into trump's
personal pravda which is a cool
millennial reference
after his stint at breitbart shapiro and
his hollywood producer friend
jeremy boring lol poured their efforts
into the daily wire
a website they had launched about six
months earlier with the financial
backing of a ted cruz mega donor
their angle was conservative media with
a super spicy twist
podcast and video fire absolute
fire shapiro obviously was the
charismatic front man
while boring handled the boring
technical side in a vanity fair piece
boring recalled a conversation he had
with shapiro early on i can expose a lot
more people to you with video
i can expose them to you in a way that
they will remember
because people are visual let me make
you famous
and will have a much louder voice in a
much bigger platform
to advance our interests soon shapiro
was indeed exposing himself
hosting as his site claims the most
listened to conservative podcast
in the country where he talks about
incredibly important things
the disney kind of imagineers have
decided that they're only going to have
female heroes from now on which is
absurd because
star wars is essentially a little boy's
property i mean if
you look at like the percentages of
people who really are huge star wars
fans
it breaks down pretty heavily male i
would think
all jokes aside shapiro has made his
fair share of alarming statements
which have been weaponized by a crowd
that you know probably has more than
enough weapons to begin with
for example you said sure israelis like
to build
arabs like to bomb crap and live in open
sewage
well as i say in an article entitled
here's a list of all the giant bad dumb
things i've ever said
was that was that yes that's a dumb
tweet
shapiro's dumb words do have meaning
whether he keeps an
archive of them or not for example the
quebec city mosque shooter who murdered
six people
was in part inspired by shapiro's
right-wing ideology
and visited ben shapiro's twitter
account 93 times in the month
leading up to the shooting okay this is
a campaign now
to blame ben shapiro for inciting
a deadly terror attack on a canadian
mosque last year
so why might shapiro have inspired a
xenophobic mania
i don't know take this tweet for example
from 2016
radical muslim kills 49 lgbt people in
florida
obama blames guns bernie says climate
change is our biggest threat
priorities people or maybe it was this
video where shapiro
through conjecture labeling and
extrapolation without evidence
claims there are 68 million 30 000
radical muslims
then well we're above 800 million
muslims we're radicalized
more than half the muslims on earth
that's not a minority
that's now a majority in other words the
myth of the tiny radical muslim minority
is just that
it's a myth shapiro obviously isn't a
stranger to making controversial claims
anytime he appears on a campus or
popular media outlets like the joe rogan
experience or fox news
his website the daily wires sees a giant
spike in monetizable traffic
after all they spend more promoting
shapiro than they
do the daily wire and for good reason he
won't
shut up there was a national apology for
slavery it was called the civil war
where seven hundred thousand americans
died
yeah obviously engaging in a violent
civil war isn't exactly
considered an apology nevertheless
shapiro doesn't skip a beat drumming up
controversy
for clicks he dismissed the sexual
assault allegations against then-supreme
court justice nominee brett kavanaugh
because no one would describe what his
genitalia looked like
right stormy daniels famously described
president trump's genitalia
bill clinton's genitalia details of such
were talked about
nobody has yet described kavanaugh's
gender now that's not just positive
clearly vivid descriptions of genitalia
mean
a lot to ben shapiro the idea that
that sex or gender are malleable
is not true shapiro fails to cite the
widely accepted fact that gender is
largely socially constructed the office
of research on women's health the
american
psychological association the world
health organization and countless
other peer-reviewed studies disagree
with shapiro who by the way is neither a
doctor
nor a psychologist nor is he a
screenwriter
but he goes on but if you are going to
dictate to me that i am supposed to
pretend
i'm supposed to pretend that men are
women and women are men
no my answer is no i'm not going to i'm
not going to modify
basic biology because it threatens your
subjective sense
of what you are aside from ignoring
scientific research from many studies
that discredit
everything shapiro is saying he more
importantly fails to treat human beings
as such
but the fast-talking shapiro just
steamrolls his way through he doesn't
skip a beat he talks quickly
confidently and nasally and is believed
by many despite his lack of facts
which by the way don't care about your
feelings
scarce to be counted
filling the darkness
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