I can’t stand Ben Shapiro.
I basically hate everything about the man. I hate his political ideology, I hate how religious he is, I hate his voice, and I hate the stupid look he always has on his face.
But most of all, what angers me the most about Ben Shapiro is his Trump-like ability to be a complete and utter hypocrite without even the SLIGHTEST thoughts of irony when making his statements, as well as his Trump-like ability to be arrogantly incorrect. Let’s go thru a few quotes, which I will then debunk/rebuttal with ease. You can listen to him talk fast and confidently (which is basically his whole strategy for conning the masses), or you can read his quotes and after, read my correct viewpoints and see for yourself who has a more compelling/accurate argument.
“This is the most important moment in Black American history. Not Martin Luther King, not Frederick Douglass, not the Civil War, not the end of Jim Crow — none of that — not Brown v. Board, the most important thing is that Chadwick Boseman puts claws on his hands and a mask on his face and runs around jumping off cars in CGI fashion.”
Alright, first and foremost Ben, you are purposely being dense. You are acting as if it’s simply the fact that a superhero movie has a black protagonist that had black Americans so excited. No dumbass, it’s the acknowledgement that we are rarely represented as anything other than savages and criminals in movies, so to have a black man as the hero shows that we too can be the good guy who all children look up to (as evidenced by the number of white kids who dressed up as Black Panther for Halloween last year.) It’s also about the fact that all of those people and events you named are events children read in history books, not something they could ever see for themselves. Black Panther was a modern day representation of black excellence, and that is what bothers you Ben.
“We heard this about Barack Obama when he was elected, too. ‘Now that Obama has been president, Black Americans will feel like they too can be presidents. It’s a transformative moment.’ Yet, all we hear now is that America is deeply racist and that Black people are still systemically discriminated against and that Black people are still victims in America society. So, it turns out it didn’t mean anything.”
Ben, both things can be true at the same time. Is it true that Barack Obama becoming the first Black American President gave hope to hundreds of thousands of young people of color that they can do anything they dream? Yes. Is it also true that man white Americans let their bigot flag fly? Of course, how do you think Trump became President (remember he got his major political start as the main champion of the birther movement)? Having a black President did not “fix” America’s racial issues, it simply magnified them in a way to show we haven’t come as far as we all would like to think. Also, it’s PROVABLE that black American’s and other people of color are systematically discriminated against.
“How about the idea that if you’re black in America there’s a white supremacist hierarchy that is keeping you down?
(Continued) The idea that black people in the United States are disproportionately poor because America is racist; that’s just not true, at least not in terms of America’s racism today keeping black people down. It’s just not the case.”
Oh? Let’s look at some numbers and see if that’s the case.
According to NPR, “The Federal Housing Administration, which was established in 1934, furthered the segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and near African-American neighborhoods — a policy known as "redlining." At the same time, the FHA was subsidizing builders who were mass-producing entire subdivisions for whites — with the requirement that none of the homes be sold to African-Americans.”
So, in other words, black people returning from the armed services were not given the same economic opportunities as their white counterparts. No property to pass down, therefore no wealth to build on. And also considering the fact that between 35-45% of all wealth is passed down generationally, you can probably see why the previous acts of discrimination have created challenges that we still face today.
Then of course we have the ACLU, who found that “Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.”
OR the fact that currently (rather, as of July 2018) there are 1135 black death row inmates, compared to 1153 white death row inmates. Also, in multiple studies (here, here, and here) show that A. Black people are more likely to receive the death penalty than white people for the same crime, and B. When the victim is white and the criminal is black, the criminal is way more likely to be sentenced to death than the reverse scenario.
And lastly…
“Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.”
Now go read everything he’s said about Rep. Ilhan Omar on his Twitter. I rest my case.
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