After watching that interview, calling Ben Shapiro an intellectual is a stretch.
Honestly it just exposes to the world how low brow and unintelligent the right is when this is the guy they roll out to be the champion of their ideas.
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Ben Shapiro crumbles on BBC; resorts to “I’m more popular than you”
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Honestly it just exposes to the world how low brow and unintelligent the right is when this is the guy they roll out to be the champion of their ideas.
exactly this. Ben Shapiro has a myopic view of journalism(as do most americans).
I would assume that we're not concerned how this performance would come across to someone who would consider themselves a Shapiro supporter. Obviously they would have their own take to protect themselves.
Ah, I see he's moved on to the "trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube" part.
The Twitter responses to this are hilarious and hopeful lol.
Than it's fine. I was hoping that the idiot getting destroyed would change some minds. Everyone else know these shills are just that.
Wait, so because he found out that Andrew Neil isn't a "leftist," than Andrew wasn't antagonizing Ben? Fuck off Ben, you're such a shithead.
I've actually never bothered to watch him, so I had no idea what he sounded like. Dude's voice is as off-putting as his positions.
Even ignoring the obviously cribbed from Google list, anyone who knows, well, anything about American literature should be able to come up with at least one book that doesn't fall into the category of "books I had to read in school between the ages of 12 and 18." But his audience doesn't read literature either (too many feelings, not enough facts I guess), so he will face no backlash for this answer.
"This is a giant waste of time in the sense that the entire interview is designed for you to shout slogans or hold things that I've said at me"
Yes Ben, interviews are designed to hold you account for the things you've said. And this is the leading light of conservative thought?
Yes Ben, interviews are designed to hold you account for the things you've said. And this is the leading light of conservative thought?
Fucking hell, At least try and hide your methods, Shaps. "I accused the interviewer of being an irrelevant, incompetent biased journalist asking me terrible questions to frame me..... Until I found out he's right of centre and now it turns out his questions were brilliant"
I would legitimately like to know what the right is considering for climate change. He basically said "the right is considering if it's a danger at all. And for those who think it's a danger, we're trying to figure out if technology can magically solve it". AKA carbon re-capturing? The right's big ideas involve carbon capture? If so, this is an utter joke. However, I'm genuinely curious what the right is dreaming up for climate change because so far I've seen absolutely nothing of value come from conservative think tanks. And in my home province Ontario, the Conservatives are an outright disaster when it comes to anything related to environment.
he reminds me of the right-wing guys that would "well, actually..." professors in government/civics classes in college.
Their goal is to appear they've won which usually means engaging in fallacies and attacking the person asking questions, when they inevitably have no reasonable answer.
Since their ideology falls apart under the most basic scrutiny and they contradict themselves all the time.
Ben is just a paid figurehead for the movement on how "they're owning the mainstream media".
His job to sound smart for a dumb ideology. Not much different than Lobsterson.
Unfortunately a lot of wealthy people want to push that ideology, so people like Ben will be in demand.
...and to add, this is the first time I've ever bothered to hear him talk. He sounds exactly as I imagined.
Limmy is getting some good bites from his Shapiro Tweets:
EDIT: Ah, I see it was already posted.
Well done, lads.
EDIT: Ah, I see it was already posted.
Well done, lads.
That's not how his supporters operate. They automatically decide in advance that they "won" something. Nothing about the actual even will change that.
What an entitled little pissant.
Yes, Georgia's new abortion laws are a return to the dark ages.
Yes, Georgia's new abortion laws are a return to the dark ages.
Ben Shapiro, and others like him, gain a following because there is a huge population of complete idiots that lap up any sort of faux intellectualism. Same reason Rubin or Moriarty have so many followers to varying degrees.
His audience is perpetually angry early 20s to late 30s neckbeards who are largely disengaged from actual politics and culture.
LOL. The old dude didn't even press him that hard but Ben knows he can't rationalize all of the shit he said anywhere outside of the mainstream and alt-right US media, so he just runaway while yelping about his popularity. What a skilled orator he is.
lol, at the implication that FDR was dealing with the "old idea" of saving the goddamn planet from climate catastrophe.
Shapiro's whole schtick is to pretend he's calm, rational and intelligent. "Facts over feelings" and all that.
The entire point of guys like him, Peterson, Rogan, Rubin, Harris, et cetera is to give alt-right talking points a veneer of center-right respectability. I don't know whether his supporters are brainwashed to the point where this wouldn't effect them, but it does hurt his job of pretending to be a smart man.
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I loved the end.
"Thank you for showing that anger is not part of American political discourse" as Ben Shapiro angrily ends the interview.
The only other time I have been exposed to him was on Rogan and he wanted to bail as soon as Jamie started fact checking him. Ben "No fair bring facts into a debate" Shapiro.
"Thank you for showing that anger is not part of American political discourse" as Ben Shapiro angrily ends the interview.
The only other time I have been exposed to him was on Rogan and he wanted to bail as soon as Jamie started fact checking him. Ben "No fair bring facts into a debate" Shapiro.