two days late: Ben Shapiro

For all of the fair debate tactics that Ben Shapiro praises, it is more than disappointing to watch him exercise the juvenile tactics that he claims to despise. These are the tactics of a 'morally bankrupt' ideology, he claims. They are the tactics of 'the left'. As a person that is morally correct, it is beneath Ben to practice such tactics. His ideology isn’t so susceptible to fair criticism that it must sink to level of its enemies.

Until it is.

The leftist agenda is undeniably pervasive, and until Ben Shapiro went on his college tours and started a daily podcast, the only alternative figureheads in the conservative tradition were the crusty old men at Fox News: Bill O’ Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Megyn Kelly. Rush Limbaugh is on the radio, but all the kids are listening to podcasts now.

For modernity-brainwashed college students, these men are the old guard. They defend principles and values that are obsolete. It is only a matter of time before they all die of being fat and old for the inevitable progress of the world to continue.

Enter Ben Shapiro: a smart, quick and principled young man. Not only does he defend the same traditional values as the old guard, but he conveys the reasons for their indispensable importance in ways that will make other young men listen…

“Facts don’t care about your feelings,” says encyclopedia Ben. Suddenly, all of the inconvenient facts of the left are unveiled in a public forum. The leftist ideology, so commonly the loudest voice on the college campus, is revealed to the politically agnostic as a radical fringe. Turns out the other side of the spectrum had their own reasons for their opinions. And they started to make sense! Turns out that all the students really needed was some context, something that college campuses purposely exclude. Those soft, young minds belong to us, Ben!

Debates all start to sound alike once Ben Shapiro’s facts also become talking points. His new recruits were never meant to formulate opinions from these talking points anyway! (They were meant to parrot Ben Shapiro!)

Although justified in proselytizing against abortion, Shapiro piggybacked on it. Infanticide is evil, agreed. Genocide is evil too. But there are exceptions, like when it pertains to issues of a certain geopolitical importance.

For all of the criticism against identity politics, Ben Shapiro is himself an identity politician that uses his minority status as a shield against bad policy and deceptive ideas. As an Orthodox Jew, it makes sense that he would defend the state of Israel’s right to exist. And if he can do it without deceiving his recruits into believing that a Jewish state is in the interest of Judeo-Christians, a term he coined but could not defend without throwing a tantrum on the BBC, then he is as righteous as his cause.

I’m two days late, and we’ve all seen the interview by now. He used the same debate tactics as the leftist identitarians he became famous for debating. And DESTROYING. Therefore, he deserves all the criticism he has received. His credibility as a sharp debater might be restored with an apology for his behavior, but he will be a hypocrite as long as he is a Jew.