Soren is a villain name, so you're like a double villian, which is cool. Mark is like an accountant name so it's like a double accountant. No need to worry, you're good.
Then I was diffusing a bomb and my partner was like "cut the black wire" but I was too paralyzed by my political correctness and the bomb blew up and I died
@@prsplayer210 By that crude, twisted form of logic, him playing the Schindler's list theme *solo* on violin isn't music either because it supposedly doesn't contain rhythm or harmony. And apparently, the only rap he's heard has been a capella, since anything else would throw a wrench into his already shady argument.
you are right but the average Muslim doesn't hate western music, even billie eilish and justin bieber have fanboys here. i swear he has never talked to a middle easterner.
Tolerant inquisitor Let’s say, hypothetically, for the sake of the argument, I named the black civil rights leader “Jim Crowford.” Now, remember, this is all hypothetical. Now, for the sake of the argument, you’re okay with this. Now, we’ve already established that you’re okay with the black civil rights leader being named “Jim Crowford”...
Gee, for someone that's supposedly critical about identity pollitics, every single character in his novel can be reduced to their race, religion and pollitical affiliation to know if they're good or bad.
It's almost as if far-right talking points are complete and utter hypocritical bullshit, isn't it? Identity politics are baad, bro - when they're not white supremacist identy politics, that is!
@@benitoperez8884 Mussolini's name was Benito. I'm telling you because I've known a couple of Hispanics with that name that had no idea. By the way, yeah we should all play minecraft.
It really does read like that, I use to watch him back in the day but I stopped caring so much about politics and starting caring about my hobbies. It was a good change lol
@Ryan McClean: That really is what it reads like cause it's so on the nose that if anyone acted it out as a skit the intent would seem like a clear parody and comedic. Has Ben just been playing the long con this whole time?!
If Ben Shapiro came out tomorrow and admitted he was really a deep plant fake conservative al-a Steven Colbert. it would make sense and also I wouldn't know if it was true or not.
In the book, Ben proposes an alternate universe where Iraq DID have weapons of mass destruction, but hid them in Iran. This completely ignores that Iraq and Iran have been enemies for centuries
_[Ben is playing with his dolls in his office when Mor opens the door]_ Mor: "Ben?" Ben: "WHAT?" _[Ben gathers up his dolls instantly]_ Mor: "Honey, dinner's ready." Ben [whining]: "KNOCK on my door! KNOCK next time!" Mor: "Sorry, hon." Ben: "Did you see anything?" Mor: "No, hon. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again." Ben: "GOOD!"
"My gun throbbed with virility, I could feel pressure rising up as I fingered its trigger. Without warning, it exploded with a blast of white, hot lead."
*> I was 8 years old* Hard cut from the meme about child fucking (but it’s okay because the kid was asking for it) to this novel including child murder (but it’s okay because the kid was asking for it).
Those 70s blacksploitation film producers put way more creative effort into making original characters that Ben Shapiro's effort in this abortion of a novel.
Ever since he was a teenager in the damn 90s he's acted like a 60 year old inept bitter nark so I'm not surprised he looked at Dolemite as a documentary.
@@okhi7574 its neofascist fiction akin to the turner diaries where again it is painfully exposed that fascists don't think of a better world, they just fantasize about a world where they get to use violence while justified and everyone else is a bad guy xD
It's not where you graduated that makes you a great book author, it's an innate talent on how you absorb and use the knowledge gathered to craft stories.
@@HiBuddyyyyyy That is true. Enjoy a lotta fanfiction. But usually AO3.....Wattpad can be a bit off putting but I think thats an age thing and I have read the ocassional good fanfic there.
@Draevon May but the NYT is fake news, haven't you heard? if I'd had a book out and the Daily Stormer would feature me on their bestseller list (hehehe, okay, I made myself chuckle a little at that oxymoron) I sure as shit wouldn't put it up ion the cover. it's just another drop in the huge barrel that is Ben Shaprio's hypocrisy
@Draevon May I'm gunna go out on a limb and say, if a book sells a certain amount of copies and shows up on a website when you sort by "popular" that's one of the only real criteria to say it's a "best seller" I've seen books that have basically no fans to speak of with the "ny times best seller", I go to conventions and there's a booth with an author I've never heard of releasing a new book and it's somehow got "new York times best seller" on it as well, it's plastered on so many books as a lable of quality when all it really seems to be saying is that you got 100 downloads on the kindle store in a day because it was in the discount section. Edit: did some research, that's almost exactly how it works, and can even just have hand picked books by a curator, Literally a few people choosing what to put on the list, or its just sell x amount of copies in a week and they can count whatever number they want as a "best seller" A quote from an article explains it well: "The most important bestseller list is The New York Times bestseller list, and they are the worst culprit at this curated elitism. They readily admit that their list is only reflective of books that are selling at a certain number of bookstores and online retailers around the country -- but not an actual bestseller list. You know why they have to admit this publicly? They were sued about it." Getting a NY times best seller means literal jack shit, it's kind of funny seeing Ben put it on his book as a badge of honor.
I knew that Shapiro was a pretentious elitist... But I had no idea that he was a full blown racist, and barely had a middle school understanding of geopolitics and sociology.
@@shlorbleflorbnad6927 wait. I once watch a movie when some climatologist suggesting to use thermonuclear bomb to stop a hurricane. I forget the name of the movie
I almost think Benny boy did that without consciously realizing it. It’s almost clever. Which makes it plausible that Benji Shapoopoo, being a complete hack, did it accidentally.
I guarantee you the black character was modeled after a real life guy Ben lost a debate to in college, and he consoled himself by believing that he’d grow up to become a drug dealer
"Kendrick Malone" I'm fuckind dead. Other scrapped names that Ben probably thought of : "Denzel Mane" "Kanye Brown" "Travis Cole" I guess that's how his mind works.
"Youngest general in American history at 41" Wow, that's not even close to true....one of America's very first generals, Nathanael Greene was all of 32 when made Brigadier General, while Benedict Arnold was 35 Lafayette was made a Major General at 19 Winfield Scott made the rank at 28 George McClellan was 35 Ulysses S Grant was 39 I could keep naming dozens, if not a hundred or more, men who became generals before hitting 40 years old, but I don't think that's terribly necessary after naming merely half a dozen of the most famous in American history...
All I can figure is that Ben means the very specific rank of "General", which is symbolized by four silver stars and is thus often called "4 star general". But having a 41 year old as a 4 star general because he's a killing machine is absolute nonsense. That's not how the Army promotes officers.
@@TheDarthbinky Maybe at some future point it will. Rules change. Maybe Ben is a visionary about the future Army. You never know.🤔 Or maybe he's too lazy to do a simple google search.
@@lilhuddo609 yeah of course, everything in this novel was made up by Ben Shapiro, so if anything it provides an interesting study into his phycology and how little he actually knows about the world
Damn, Ben is so racist that he's even bigoted against the Irish. I mean, just look at those names. Also, "Kendrick Malone" could not more obviously be a mashup of the only two rappers Ben knows about, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone. What makes that way funnier is that Post Malone is white
How is he bigoted and racist against the Irish? You've been horribly brainwashed by leftist radicalists who have told you Ben Shapiro is literal Satan, that all of his views are wrong and horrible, and that he's an idiot who should be killed. Or something like that. Idk.
the creeping realization that "kendrick malone" is just tamir rice "by an 8-year-old" "a toy gun and not a real one" like by the time the realization hit i was like you CANNOT be fucking justifying the murder of tamir rice rn but then again it's ben shapiro so no surprise there
Holy shit, I didn't even make the connection, but you're totally right. Ben was always really obviously racist, but anyone that read those passages of his book that still defend him are racist too. There's no justification.
I was talking about the protests in Cleveland following the death of Tamir Rice and remarked that it would not be surprising if a movie on the events in Cleveland was made and titled "Ohio on Fire." I came up with the title on the fly and modeled it after the title of the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." The latter was a movie on the murder of three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June of 1964.
The weird part is, from the description of the scene, he didn't even do a good job of ATTEMPTING to justify it. He made the cop look like he was crazy paranoid. Then expects the reader to side with him. What
@@rickpgriffinexactly! He wants us to feel empathy before we know all the facts. He drops the 8 year old bombshell after the shooting to make us picture a late teen at worst, because he knows the readers would call him out on his bullshit if he gave context and set up the scene properly. It’s like if theirs a bar fight in a movie and suddenly the main character is in court for punching an 8 year old, who’s height, age and pitch of voice were never mentioned. Ben knows his own scene is unbelievable so he deprives the reader of information before he makes them feel sorry for the cop. He wants you to FEEL for him before you have the FACTS.bear in mind this book is aimed at people who already like Ben Shapiro and he’s still trying to deceive them to get them on his side. He knows his position is indefensible and carry’s on anyway
my question is also that even if that murder was somehow planned, that in no way makes the events changed morally speaking. a cop still shot an eight year old unprovoked. he wasnt told to and if it hadnt been planned under shapiros logic it probably would have happened anyway considering there was a cop walking around ready to murder kids
I can't decide if there was no editing because Ben Shapiro is a petulant prick who'd raise hell if you touched any of his divinely inspired prose or if the publisher knew it was gonna sell and be reviewed based on name recognition anyway so why bother with editing.
"The liberal media wants you to think that editors make writing better. But if that's true, why don't the editors write their own book and wait for it to become the best-seller of all time?"
You forgot the part where he makes every protagonist big and tall, like how Ben isn't, but every antagonist is short with very little facial hair, like how Ben is.
So the “Facts don’t care about your feelings” guy FELT so good about a review comparing his writing to his favorite author that he ignored the FACT that the review was not only calling the book awful but also wasn’t even about the book he used it as praise for.
The best bit about the book is when Ben has his mastermind evil black drug dealing hustler character mention how he occasionally goes to universities to debate conservatives.
The 8 year old part is disturbing on another level. As a reader, it’s information not available prior to the shooting, but the cop is still looking at an 8 year old. Ben wants his cake and to eat it to, having the cop be tragic while civil rights groups are monstrous hypocrites. All while ignoring that his own character is jumpy enough to shoot a child. Someone who would very clearly look like a child. In the moment we don’t know their age, but it’s left ambiguous enough that the reader doesn’t put down the book and call out how stupid it is. Ben tries to frame it in his own narrative that the cop had no way to tell if the person he was talking to was a child. In that case, is this the kind of person who should have been given a gun in the first place? Shapiro tried to make it a set up but he just make his own character (a pretty blatant stand in for all police shootings) an unobservant and jumpy idiot
Ben Shapiro: Abortion is murder and should not be legal under any circumstances. Also Ben Shapiro: *Glorifies and portrays a child killer as an innocent victim in his book*
The point is that it was her choice to make. If you want a child, keep it. If you don’t want a child, no one should force that on you, personal freedom is more important than the appearance of life within a developing mass of stem cells
This book sounds like every angry 70 year-old's daily mail letter. "The world's going to hell because i can't say the n-word and cops can't kill kids! Political correctness gone MAD I tell you!!! It's all that blasted Britney Spears' fault!!!"
@@edienandy Oh no, Andy got into the joint account again. Edie, can you make sure he takes his meds and doesn’t watch anything too exciting? Put on some Ken Burns or something.
@@rickardkaufman3988 eh, I think Trigger Warning and Run, Hide, Fight are pretty different. the only connecting thread is that it's an action story set around a school shooting. if it really was inspired by Trigger Warning, it would have to be loosely.
I was a little bit uncomfortable by the homoerotic descriptions of Brett Hawthorne and I was understandably disgusted by "Run Hide Fight" as it seemed like Ben took bits and pieces of school shootings from the 1990's and blended them into a shitty film. I only said "school shootings from the 1990's" because a lot of school safety experts say that schools in the United States are safer now than they were in the 1990's; the decade most associated with high-profile violent school shootings. While I hope it never happens; it would be interesting if Ben Shapiro wrote a sequel to "True Allegiance" and set the sequel in Northern Ireland during The Troubles as we could finally get a glimpse of what are Ben's views on Northern Ireland. For those who are not familiar with The Troubles; they are defined as a thirty-year period of violence, terror and despair in the British Isles. The Troubles are generally considered to have started in 1968 with the Battle of the Bogside and ended with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The parties involved in The Troubles were the Catholic population of Northern Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Republican Army, the Protestant communities in the British Isles, the police forces of Northern Ireland, and the British Army. Ben would probably depict the Catholic population of Northern Ireland as IRA sympathizers and violent murderous thugs who take pleasure in committing acts of violence on the Protestant communities in the British Isles by bombing, beating, stabbing or shooting Protestants as well as police officers in Northern Ireland and British soldiers coupled with burning or bombing Protestant homes and businesses. Ben would probably depict the Protestant communities of Northern Ireland as well as the police forces of Northern Ireland and the soldiers of the British Army as good hardworking people who were desperate to stop the violence in Northern Ireland by any means necessary.
Okay, that section where the cop draws his gun reads EXACTLY like so much erotica. It was _uncanny_ how many flashbacks that gave me. You just know Ben was typing that one-handed.
Eugh, I hope not. I know Ben is a nut job, but getting off to killing black children is a bit much even by his standards. Actually, a guy jacking it to killing black people sounds like something straight out of South Park.
Nobody who has written a book titled 'How to debate leftists and destroy them' , (who then proceeds to label andrew neil of all people a "leftist" during a live television discussion) , should ever be taken seriously.
Disappointed Turtle well turning interviews into debates isn’t always a bad thing David Bowie was getting interviewed on MTV and got into a debate into why they don’t show videos from black artists and it’s great he calmly lets him speak and then responds with why he’s wrong my favourite part being when the interview asked why would a teenager care about the Isley brothers and Bowie tells him aren’t black teenagers American. You can debate in an interview but not if you’re an idiot
This is like if Tom Clancy went off his meds, called Ben up in the middle of the night, and dictated a novel to him, except Ben's signal was spotty and he just filled in the blanks however he wanted when the call dropped out.
14:40 I was born in Iran and to this day, I still ask myself what does it mean to hit me baby, one more time. It's a real philosophical quandary over there.
German here. Been wondering that myself for a long time. Drugs? Sado-masochism? To finally solve that mystery I googled "What does hit me baby ... ", and right then autocomplete kicked in. Apparently plenty of people have been wondering that too! Here goes. It means ... "call me". :) Or it's supposed to mean that: www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6753845/hit-me-baby-one-more-time-nsync-star-meaning-revealed
*puts on brainy glasses* It's a double meaning. The first is it referencing a shortening of the phrase "hit me up", which is slang for "call me", with the "up" dropped for the sake of the song's candice. The second is a reference to the other slang usage of the phrase "hit me", which means "show me" or "impress me". So in the context of the song, the singer is inviting the subject of the lyrics to call them again so said subject can show them and impress them with how they intend to demonstrate a romantic relationship.
@@FlashNeko417 The first part is right. The second meaning isn't. I have never heard anyone say "hit me" to mean "impress me". Hit me can mean call me/ speak to me, and hit me (with) something can mean show me something, but "hit me" by itself means "fuck me", ie., have sexual intercourse with me. Especially in the 90s. Hit me up/ sex me is how I always interpreted those lyrics.
Guys I think Iranian terrorists would get it: Terrorist 1: Mubideen Al Sharp Al-Shabum Terrorist 2 : Frank T1: " A Frank ! I got some primo Intel on that there U, S, of A... Over here" T2: "Hit me with it." T1: " heh , just like da song!?" T2: " yeah Sharpie, you got the reference!" Scene
Actually the song is about a girl who broke up with her boyfriend and now regrets it and wants him back. The line goes "Give me a sign, hit me baby one more time". Simply asking him to let her know he wants her back. The "hit me" just means that.
I really wish that the US would just split in half. The conservatives can have their 3rd world shit hole, and the NORMAL, REASONABLE folks can have a modern society that accepts the tortured, huddled masses of refugees the conservative (we'll call it the Confederacy) America would inevitably create.
neznakomets well, even good causes do pay lobbyists because that’s how politics in America works. However, it’s laughable that Ben thinks those environmental lobbyists are somehow more powerful than the billions of dollars in the oil industry, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on lobbying.
By stopping drilling here, they give the US more pressure to import more oil from places such as Saudi Arabia, thus making the environmentalists 'useful idiots.' Honestly that sounds more plausible than a lot of the other crap in this book. Unless it's implying the environmentalists are actively and knowingly colluding with the Saudi government, that would be unbelievable. Like the way the police shooting was orchestrated to help left wing activists is so abhorrent. There's a much better example of a civil rights activist being duped into taking a case for someone who wasn't quite so innocent in the book Black Klansman. Ben should have done something like that if he wanted it to sound believable.
Some people are good at politics, but not necessarily at writing. Others are amazing writers, but wouldn't fare well as politicians. Ben isn't that good with either
No wonder Hollywood didn't want to accept any of Ben Shapiro's scripts. He can't right good stories, and probably about half of them are just propaganda of glorify bigotry and murdering innocent people. This book's story structure is like one of Onision's books.
When even your TV executive mom can't get you a foot in the door through her contacts, you should realise your writing is complete trash. We're in an era when television networks are so desperate for "content" to cram between blocks of ads, they will buy any old shit from anybody.
Yes I'm surprised more people don't talk about this. It's gotta keep him up at night, and be a source of his hateful nature, amongst others. Not even nepotism could get him work as a writer, he's that shitty. Plus, when you write "dramedies" from the view of an uptight bigot with no irony, it's a toss. Frankly, I feel bad for the assistants that had to read it.
I love that he framed that Ayn Rand quote as an endorsement. It actually fits him perfectly because like Ayn Rand, the poster girl of anti-socialism who spent her twilight years receiving social security benefits, Ben is a walking contradiction that will always forego his principles for his own selfish gain.
I actually had to stop watching and go for a walk when the revelation that the black 8 year old who was killed by the cop was a plant was revealed. Good lord
It hits right? It feels like something that should be a joke, like it's in some parody where the kid asks if he can come out during his funeral? The fact Ben wrote it entirely un ironically and went "ha that's what they'd have to do to beat my perfect debates"
Jones I’d like to simultaneously thank you and apologize for making you read that woman’s Twitter. How are everyone of her takes so bad?? Like some self respect please??
Back when I didn’t know any better, I had a high opinion of Ben Shapiro. I thought he was THE MASTER of debates and insightfulness. Now it’s just. Jesus Christ dude
@@narkroshi88 I was on the edge, the gaming community was where I gained those anti woman and the "I'm not racists because blank" when I was in mid secondary school. I don't remember when I changed my mind, it was hbomb overall I think where I saw the issues of all this stuff I had heard over my life was just a lie. I for like a week supported Brexit and now I'm where I am. I still worry if I don't do enough. Ben Shapiro was a guy who my friends would joke about but I didn't know better about him or what I was supposed to do so just followed it. I'm lucky I found what i did when I did
Zachary Critten same, except mine only lasted for a few months. I got over it very quickly but that’s on growth isn’t it? Still you can see so many Ben Shapiro fanboys and pettersons subs. All I think is that they will probably get over it soon.
I got into this stuff when I was 20, angry and very lonely. It took a good 2 years before I realized how fucking miserable I was thinking them 'damn SJW's" were going to take away my freedom.
2:28 "He's the youngest general in US history at 41." Straight off the top of my head, I know James M. Gavin was a good six years younger than that when he took command of the 82nd Airborne in WWII.
@@optillian4182 he didn't need to. Even a foreigner like me knows about people like Custer or McClellan who were waaaay younger than 41 when promoted to Generals...
My undergraduate creative writing professor said we learn as much or more from "unsuccessful" fiction as we do from good writing. Ben woulda gave me a master class in the former.
Hey now, let's not accuse Shapiro of having good taste. That said, it does seem from the lines given here like he was trying to make an AOC who could love him back.
Well, he has to fight Marjorie Hitler Crossfit for first dibs, then. She's so pathetically infatuated with her, AOC should get a restraining order against that creepy psycho.
Well, some people on the right-wing conspiracy side think that she's "a good one"... Err... A sleeper agent who has infiltrated the Democratic party and will eventually turn on them. This is mainly their way of dealing with their cognitive dissonance of AOC being both liberal and hot... 😂
I think my favorite part of this book is how, after the cop shot the kid, he couldn't breathe not because he realized he shot a 8 year old with a toy gun, he couldn't breath because he knew black people would be mad as hell at him. My second favorite part is how the black people from the Detroit neighborhood are described like the heartless from KH. It's so fucked up it would be good satire if written by someone smart.
Yes, it was. A Black man named Eric Garner was arrested in 2014 for selling loose cigarettes. As the NYPD tried to take him into custody, one of them put an arm around Garner’s neck and bore him to the ground. Multiple officers joined in pinning down Garner. Garner said, “I can’t breathe” about eleven times before losing consciousness. Approximately an hour later, he was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
I really liked the twist where, as it turns out, not only do the facts not care about your feelings, But that *Ben Shapiro's feelings don't care about the facts*
As an iranian, this makes me so mad. We had an 8 year long with iraq, our government is famously bad and cruel to sunni minorities. They're not on good terms.
it doesn't surprise me that Shapiro is unaware of the Iran-Iraq war, in his mind the mid east is Israel and people waiting to be conquered by Israel...
Lmaoo I love how Shapiro is extremely creepily obsessed with rambling about how “the left” is apparently fully emotional and irrational, but screeches and cries anytime someone criticizes him and plays the victim and claims they’re “anti-Semitic”
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster I'm just wondering, how does someone not be racist? I'm clearly not in the same groups as the people here, and I keep seeing people saying things like just being friends with black people doesn't mean you're racist.
@@gustavoboscardin9351 He admitted to never expressing his own opinion and just writing 'sjw garbage' because that is what he believed his professors wanted. The Ivy League: Where straight white men will never be heard. Some More News does a great expose on Ben and DESTROYS HIM.
As someone who lives near Detroit and does a lot of volunteer work there, I find Ben's depiction of the city... annoying. Detroit has had a bad reputation ever since the riots of '67, but today its primary issue is underfunding. After those riots, everyone rich enough left. Those who left were nearly all white, of course. That left us with a poor, black population in a city that those outside of the city didn't really care to fund. Today, 80.95% of Detroit is black. It also has an amazingly unique culture, with great food, great music, and especially great museums. For those who are homeless, poor, or struggling in some of the not-so-nice-neighborhoods, the thriving charity organizations in the area (many of which are Christian, which Ben might like) are there to help where public funding doesn't. There are shelters for people to sleep in, soup kitchens to eat in (with very good food*), and youth centers where kids in the area could spend their free time in a safe environment. Generally, it's a beautiful city full of absolutely amazing people. Representations like Ben's not only shows it as crime-filled city full of crazy people, but also misrepresents the protests, many of which were peaceful aside from the demonstrations of the police. www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/06/01/3-days-of-protests-in-michigan-heres-what-happened/ *I know this because I've worked at a few of them before. I remember one had a full drum set and some other musical instruments with which a very talented band would entertain their fellow guests.
A lot of people tend to believe that the 1967 riots in Detroit was the catalyst for the decline of Detroit; but it was more of an accelerant than a catalyst. The real catalyst for the decline of Detroit can be traced to 1944 as that year the city's mayor Edward Jeffries lobbied Congress for Federal funding to build expressways leading out of Detroit to the suburbs.
@@mrnonsense1031 For real, every aspiring writer should read Hunt for the Red October. The way totally incompatible characters work towards a common goal while being undermined by agitators on both sides is such a clever metaphor for the Cold War. The politics of the Americans and Soviets is barely touched upon but the dialogue fills in all the blanks. There’s more subtlety in one chapter of that book than in Shapiro’s entire bibliography.
You KNOW this guy got bullied relentlessly in school... and instead of developing **empathy** like most of us do, he went in the complete opposite direction...
Seriously, the “cool kids’ philosopher?” Ben Shapiro is a 37 year old millionaire who by any financial measure is immensely successful and there’s a 63% chance he is currently jammed in a locker somewhere with a wedgie.
We all know he said that as a way to "make leftists feel bad" Like when someone says "did you know the Democrats used to own slaves? Checkmate libtard, I'm better than you because a political party you identify with owned slaves hundreds of years ago! Which means you're the real racist!" When we damn well know they would never actually outright denounce slavery as being bad and only say that as some weird way to try to "ruin your ideology", it's the dumbest most transparent tactic I've seen.
Ben Shapiro was smart enough to go to Harvard but I think he's probably a sociopath and a sellout. Nobody could be as smart as Shapiro and still be stupid enough to believe such silly things and put them in a really dumb novel. That's some next level autistic savant stuff if he really is that stupid AND smart!
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 Or maybe his constant outstanding intellect boosted his ego and allowed him to reinforce his views instead of critically analyzing them.
I understand your point but it is equally disingenuous to assume that anyone believes he thinks his book represents exact and finite reality. That is, we can make a joke about his book and not subscribe to the idea that he believes the world of his novel is an exact replica. However, as a debatable counterpoint, the rhetoric he uses in his debates and interviews should speak for itself against your feeling of necessity in writing that comment. Maybe he doesn’t think things are like his book on the scale of “geopolitics” (international, global politics) and maybe he is even able to admit his vision of national politics is skewed to hyperbole in many places his book... But, with that said, his literary representation of modern issues in our national culture and politics are by no measure dissimilar to the views he states articulately and at length himself in his debates and interviews. To think or suggest otherwise, to defend the rhetoric in his book as if the views in it are dissimilar to his talking points-as if the views in it are not persuasive to the beliefs and actions of those affiliated with his political orientation-is not only disingenuous, it’s an extremely dangerous and prejudicial stance to perpetuate.
@SpartanArmy117 Don’t feel the need to reply. It’s long. I think you sort of repeated yourself as well, but I think I understand your overall point: response to his book is exaggerated and his message is about American values. I don’t think that the outrage is at all exaggerated, and you can disagree, but it is pertinent you at least understand a differing opinion, and I’ll only use the single, most obvious example of the rhetoric in his book: his black characters. Think about how all his major black characters are portrayed: hard drug dealers and addicts who trick an unarmed child into being martyred by a police officer as a means for their opportunistic “race war” of the shadowy black community against the innocent police “honkies.” He in no way addresses the real issue of police brutality against the black community in a meaningful way, but frames the officer as a victim and the community itself as the villains in a propaganda war with absolute disregard to the fact the black community does not and has never controlled the flow of media in this country, and therefore don’t have control over what is truly propagandized to the people. As a recurring villain, the main black character is insistently placed on the same level as, or is constantly presented as less moral than, the other antagonists-and even some protagonists-who bomb domestic government buildings (Soledad), who admittedly try to incite a war in the Middle East with only self-verified evidence (Hawthorne), who try to blow up NYC (Mohammad). What is the value he’s trying to point out here? That blacks caused their own problems, or always have a sinister ulterior motive, so we shouldn’t take their grievances seriously? That’s defamatory, prejudicial and fallacious. That a community grieving over a child’s death should be seen in the same light as the domestic terrorist acts against NYC because the child was engaging in criminal acts? Really? Outrage for Michael Brown equates to the attack against the Twin Towers? Why shouldn’t someone be upset about this? This is literary propaganda and he of all people should know better, knowing the history of his people less than a century ago. This is literary propaganda that will only solidify resentment of vulnerable radicals against a target group-against the already most marginalized minority group in our country’s history-using rhetoric which, I implied before, is typical of the very political orientation that currently accounts for the most instances of radical domestic terrorism! Mass shooters most often align themselves politically right-conservative ideologies like Shapiro and his novel-and quite often admit to doing so and to being radicalized by the very types conservative talking points in their own manifestos that are implicitly preached throughout this book. And the fact is that while bot sides of the political spectrum may try to claim that Shapiro’s rhetoric does not incriminate him if one of his readers are to be radicalized against blacks by it-that only the person who pulls the trigger is the murderer-we must be intellectually consistent: Hitler didn’t pull the trigger on millions of people yet HE is the one remembered for their deaths. He is remembered because he is the one we attribute to perpetuating the ideologies against the victims. This is exactly the same thing. So, no. I have to disagree. The reaction to his book isn’t overexaggerated. There may be contrarily an underreaction. But it’s okay, right, because the books values are biased against blacks and Arabs, while Latinos are morally gray and whites are a-ok. Asians need not apply. TL;DR He doesn’t seem to advocate for consistent moral values and his rhetoric promotes ideologies against marginalized communities that may radicalize vulnerable conservatives who are already more prone to domestic terrorism through such rhetoric as admitted in their numerous manifestos.
@SpartanArmy117 First, I want to make it clear that other marginalized groups can also be used as examples from Shapiro’s book against him-Arabs, Latinos, women-but I’m sticking with blacks because that was my previous example and it has the most historical significance in his book’s context of American culture. I do not back down form my statement. Marginalized groups, especially blacks, do not “control” the media. I think people tend to conflate the idea that marginalized groups have a bigger influence on the media now than ever before with direct control, but influence and direct control are not the same thing. Simply, someone in control can ultimately say no to influence. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Time, New York Post, Washington Post, the list goes on and on, and none of the members of this list are owned and run by blacks, and therefore none have any realistic, or often legal, obligation to be entirely honest about black issues or to even shed light on them in the first place. This is not a statement of conjecture either-it has been proven in countless articles by journalists and in countless courtroom trials around the nation that the press often does not hold themselves to an ethical and objective standard, but push an internal agenda that their majority interest decides. To think that blacks or any other marginalized group is controlling the narrative, and not that the majority group is consenting to pushing the narrative, when we have so much documented history that suggests otherwise is-and here’s that word again-disingenuous at best. An issue you point out is that people are saying that cops unlawfully kill blacks at a higher rate, whether the victim was guilty of something or not. If that’s true, that’s obviously racist. Here is the problem no one ever addresses with your position: the opposite is still racist. Even if it weren’t true that blacks are being killed at a higher rate, the perception that it is true is raised when the majority-owned media continues to display that blacks are getting killed this way. That can’t be argued; they factually continue to display this. A false narrative about a race to further their victimization or spark division is still definitively racist. If either side you come from in the argument is racist-that they really are being killed or that the media is just showing them being killed-if either side is unjustly targeting a specific group to dehumanize with such an obvious bias, why do we continue to blame the victim group? Why isn’t the media working to educate the world on the real statistics of police brutality through videos of non-blacks being gunned down if the statistics are truly different from what we are shown on the news every night-if more Latinos or Asians are being unjustly shot by police? These are relevant questions that need direct answers from anyone of the aforementioned position, and direct action from anyone who is in actual control of the media who are, once again, resoundingly white. And yes, in the context of our argument, I stick by calling his book propaganda against blacks (and other marginalized groups) as well. I stick by calling Shapiro’s characterization of blacks purely racist, and his constant rhetoric shaming black culture doesn’t really help anyone’s case against my point, especially when he kicks and screams when others debate against his personal marginalized group (Jews, Israel). And his black shaming is constant-invalidating black grievances, delegitimizing black art, reading out statistics against blacks but neglecting to apply history as recent as the 80s to their situation; the deterioration of the black culture started in the 60s-80s after white Americans destroyed black’s potential for wealth with redlining, gerrymandering and destruction of black Wall Street and then subsidized the deterioration of the black family when the government organizations like the CIA brought hard drugs into their neighborhoods and initiated a war on drugs where black men were incarcerated and exponential rates to their peers. Conservatives, like Shapiro, will say these are black problems while never acknowledging whites created the issues and have never appropriately held themselves accountable. This is the issue with the rhetoric of his book, and that many people throw onto the black community: self-accountability, dismissing where the root of the evil is a white problem and even the perpetuation of the issue is not always definitively black. Black test scores are low?-black school districts have been steadily defunded for the past 40 years by white lawmakers. Likewise in his novel, Levon the drug dealer sells cocaine and is ready to jump on the police brutality bandwagon-who brought cocaine to black neighborhoods across the nation in the first place? And who controls-not influences-the media? The thing is that what I’ve mentioned is the same issue with the movie you referenced. The movie is also rooted in propaganda, but from an issue we’ve already established is more likely rooted in a problem caused, controlled and solvable by the white majority: the perception of police brutality is succinctly an issue that has always been at the control of the majority. Also, I can only agree that the movie portrays two groups performing a racial bias against one another-it doesn’t clearly meet the requirement built in the definition of racism: belief of superiority in one’s own race, or that the officer was discriminated against because of his race- (www.lexico.com/en/definition/racism) (www.dictionary.com/browse/racism?s=t) (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism) (dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/racism?q=Racism) The characters were afraid of each other because one side led to believe white cops are killers and the other is led to believe blacks are dangerous because that’s what the media shows. That isn’t racism-they don’t believe white cops are killers because whites are just murderers and blacks are better than that. And while there is a historical narrative to more credibly justify the opposite as true, there isn’t enough information in the trailer to confirm it. It does beg to question however why you’d ask if the trailer is profiling a single white cop while never clearly admitting to my point that Shapiro’s profiling of the entire black community in his book. This comparison shows that you are indeed intellectually aware of exactly the issue we’re talking about and how it’s implication as valid as true discredit the argument against me. This comparison shows that you may even agree with me that Shapiro’s book is propaganda even if you won’t define with that term, but that you may also have your own bias that relegates you to protect the white side of the argument. (That is not meant to be insulting.) It also implies that you may assume I wouldn’t recognize a prejudice because it’s against the majority group. You know, this is a fallacious argument that Shapiro himself makes common use of in essentially every debate and is why so many people in the comments, as you pointed out, are so avid against him. This is a red herring and a strawman-it redirects from the argument that “his portrayal of the black community is propaganda” and it reframes it “whites can be victims too.” Neither of these things is a true position against what I said because neither refute my position with reasoning or evidence, but instead point out a different problem and say “this is bad too so you are invalid.” Whites can be victims too-so what? Does that nullify any iota of racist propaganda he wrote in his book? And yes, his book proves that he’s a bad writer but not because of the message. Just read the book. His command of language is very limited and has the air of a middle school student, not an Ivy League educated “political analyst.” This seems like a personal attack out of context, and that’s why I implored you read the book to come to your own conclusion about his command of language in it. (Also, you should be careful with the claim that many were justified; this is already long enough so I’ll just say that many of the major, nationally televised cases were not justified, which is the issue tackled in his book, if erroneously.)
14:33 2021 version: "He was getting sick of listening to the Western-style sinful music blasting over the speakers. _What,_ he asked himself, _does it mean to 'bring a bucket and a mop for that wet-ass P-word'_ ? "
This may sound a bit offensive, but now I want a cover of WAP, where instead of Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion, it's a old Middle Eastern man, reading the lyrics (not singing them) in an almost confused manner, and the music itself stays the same 🤣
The entire music video is the same - same set and custumes, same background dancers, same moves - it's just that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are replaced by that dude
"Don't give your characters silly names like Mark Marksen"
...I feel a little hurt...
Lmao
Av for den, mand.
Soren is a villain name, so you're like a double villian, which is cool.
Mark is like an accountant name so it's like a double accountant.
No need to worry, you're good.
Centhar
Wait but wouldn’t the two names cancel out and he would just be a neutral person?
@@neoir8514 foiled by simple math yet again, 😂
Then I was diffusing a bomb and my partner was like "cut the black wire" but I was too paralyzed by my political correctness and the bomb blew up and I died
Cut the non-white wire.
The wire of color**
Cut the African American wire!
Cut the wire that has the color hexadecimal value of 0,0,0
cut the melanin-rich wire
Can we just appreciate the fact that kid the cop murders is named Kendrick Malone a lazy mishmash of 2 rappers names
And this from Ben "rap isn't music" Shapiro 😂
The only two rappers Ben knows
@Plushypony 94 yes, he said his dad who went to music school says so, because rap is only rhythm,no harmony or melody
One of whom is white.
@@prsplayer210 By that crude, twisted form of logic, him playing the Schindler's list theme *solo* on violin isn't music either because it supposedly doesn't contain rhythm or harmony. And apparently, the only rap he's heard has been a capella, since anything else would throw a wrench into his already shady argument.
I'm actually surprised the black civil rights leader isn't call "Tyrone Watermelon"
😭
JK Rowling "niggy wiggy" behavior
If JK Rowling wrote this
No, he’s just JIM CRAWford. 😐 Good God…
@@theresacohol2017oh my god you're right that flew over my head
The best part is Ben dunking on muslims for their uncultured distaste for western music as if he himself hasn't gone on several anti-rap rants
"This isn't music!"
- Old men, always. And griftcons everywhere.
mike there's a best part?
MAKE SENSE, MAN!
you are right but the average Muslim doesn't hate western music, even billie eilish and justin bieber have fanboys here. i swear he has never talked to a middle easterner.
@@MahaHMA apparently he hasn't ever talked to a black person either
Ah but you see, rap isn't western music because of...uh...black people.
Guys this novel isn't racist, the main character has a black friend
LOL.
It definitely gives off "But my sister's boyfriend is black" vibes.
@@wolfenstarnice4821 "my favorite porn star is black" vibes
@@creeeamy7133 "I'm not xenophobic nor homophobic, I jacked off to latina lesbian porn once" vibes
All of these things will be true for someone. This person exists.
I'm actually surprised the black civil rights leader isn't call "Jim Crowford"
@philmastro "I’m actually surprised the black civil rights leader isn’t call "Jim Crowford""
But imagine if he did.
@@ARUclipsCommentator he would've played it off like everybody was getting offended and "the left ruins all the cultural references i make"
Oh come on, that's too obvious. The first draft was probably along the lines of "Jim CrAwford" or "Corin Capernicus" lol.
Tolerant inquisitor
Let’s say, hypothetically, for the sake of the argument, I named the black civil rights leader “Jim Crowford.” Now, remember, this is all hypothetical. Now, for the sake of the argument, you’re okay with this. Now, we’ve already established that you’re okay with the black civil rights leader being named “Jim Crowford”...
This comment section made my day ❤️
Gee, for someone that's supposedly critical about identity pollitics, every single character in his novel can be reduced to their race, religion and pollitical affiliation to know if they're good or bad.
exactly lmao
Identity politics is only bad when the other side does it, according to the right.
It's almost as if far-right talking points are complete and utter hypocritical bullshit, isn't it?
Identity politics are baad, bro - when they're not white supremacist identy politics, that is!
@@henrygvidonas9573 fuck the far right and far left
Lets all play minecraft
@@benitoperez8884 Mussolini's name was Benito. I'm telling you because I've known a couple of Hispanics with that name that had no idea. By the way, yeah we should all play minecraft.
If I didn't already know who Ben was, I would swear this was a brilliant parody of conservativism.
It really does read like that, I use to watch him back in the day but I stopped caring so much about politics and starting caring about my hobbies. It was a good change lol
It’s so bad I honestly can’t imagine he’s not trolling.
@Ryan McClean: That really is what it reads like cause it's so on the nose that if anyone acted it out as a skit the intent would seem like a clear parody and comedic.
Has Ben just been playing the long con this whole time?!
If Ben Shapiro came out tomorrow and admitted he was really a deep plant fake conservative al-a Steven Colbert. it would make sense and also I wouldn't know if it was true or not.
It's a typical example of "Poe's Law"
I wish this was written in the 90s so the 8 year old black kid could be named Snoop Cube Shakur.
this comment deserves many likes
@@johncardono8056 thanks sir! I agree! And so would Snoop Cube Shakur!
Omg I'm dying
Fantastic!
😂😂😂😂
In the book, Ben proposes an alternate universe where Iraq DID have weapons of mass destruction, but hid them in Iran. This completely ignores that Iraq and Iran have been enemies for centuries
They sound simioar, so they should be pals, right?
-probably Ben Shapiro's train of thought
Genius move on Iraq's part. The last place people would think to look.
What's 3 million dead between friends
The Middle East is just one monolithic nation to these people, populated exclusively by terrorists whose only ideology is "Death to America!"
"Hey, it's me. Normally, go f-ck yourself, but could you hold onto this for a few minutes?"
Black man from Detroit here... I believe the first and last person I have ever heard use the word "honky" was my late grandmother.
Im not from Detroit but im black and my great grandfather didn't even say honky his ass just said the white man.
Oh crap for real?
The last person I heard say honky was a White person saying that Black people are using that word
F
Really late here but yeah, I've only ever herd honkey used by white people, like myself, making fun of themselves lol.
It sounds like he came up with the plot while playing with his action figures.
_[Ben is playing with his dolls in his office when Mor opens the door]_
Mor: "Ben?"
Ben: "WHAT?"
_[Ben gathers up his dolls instantly]_
Mor: "Honey, dinner's ready."
Ben [whining]: "KNOCK on my door! KNOCK next time!"
Mor: "Sorry, hon."
Ben: "Did you see anything?"
Mor: "No, hon. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again."
Ben: "GOOD!"
gspendlove 😂😂😂 you gotta add: “The regressive intolerant left knocked at my door again”
@@gspendlove Fun fact; Mor means mom in Danish, which is why your reply really confused me until I found it was the name of his wife.
@Kevin McDougall speaking of his sister, she must be unfortunate as fuck to be related to him
No, he read a Tom Clancy book and went "Hey, I can do that!". No you can't Ben
Oh my God, his writing is so awful. "The gun was life." What???
"My gun throbbed with virility, I could feel pressure rising up as I fingered its trigger. Without warning, it exploded with a blast of white, hot lead."
“This is the will of Zardoz. The gun is good, the penis is evil.”
@@KRJayster The MINUTE I saw that line, I knew someone would make this joke! ;)
Conservatives: Gun is love, gun is life
*> I was 8 years old*
Hard cut from the meme about child fucking (but it’s okay because the kid was asking for it) to this novel including child murder (but it’s okay because the kid was asking for it).
"suddenly, O'sullivan's head filled with a sudden clarity" - when you suddenly overuse suddenly suddenly it's suddenly less well written
J W He’s a pretend academic, of course he cannot write for shit.
Lol I got a headache reading that
_Suddenly, pineapples!_
Shows you what a “Harvard” education can get you right?
*S U D D E N L Y*
Ben: “Hollywood rejected me because I’m conservative.”
Apparently he’s just a bad writer.
Those are synonyms in my eyes.
@@teallineart8805 I think they have more of a subset-relation. Like not all bad writers are conservative but all conservatives are bad writers
@@teallineart8805 From what i've seen, i wouldn't say that
@@pedroian5964 What do you mean?
@@teallineart8805 Don't know how to explain this without sounding like a Racism apologist
Gotta love that his black stereotypes are from some 70s blaxploitation film lmao
Would not be surprised if the first time Ben ever saw a black person was when he saw his first hippity hop music video
ben has little to no interaction with blacks folks, so he bases his black characters off of stereotypes.
This is Ben Shapiro's Jackie Brown.
Those 70s blacksploitation film producers put way more creative effort into making original characters that Ben Shapiro's effort in this abortion of a novel.
Ever since he was a teenager in the damn 90s he's acted like a 60 year old inept bitter nark so I'm not surprised he looked at Dolemite as a documentary.
"She felt tears well up in her own eyes."
As opposed to feeling them well up in someone else's eyes.
She felt tears well down in her own toes.
My very specific and not terribly useful mutant power is to feel when someone nearby has tears welling up in their eyes.
@Maurits I don't think it's an adult centric mistake it's pretty much a universal mistake, but it is funny how we make those writing mistakes often.
whose tears though?
To be fair it is entirely possible that as a character in a Shapiro book she can actually feel the tears of the person being forced to read.
As a fellow Black man, I'm just gonna state that-WHEN THE HELL DO WE SAY HONKY IN 2020s? What year was Shapiro born?
Judging by the quality of writing - 2003.
@@okhi7574 Arent we all fiction? Who am I? I am Fiction.
Pllayer064 Pllayer064 I’m ashamed that I share the same birth year as Ben “I’m not racist” Shapiro
@@okhi7574 its neofascist fiction akin to the turner diaries where again it is painfully exposed that fascists don't think of a better world, they just fantasize about a world where they get to use violence while justified and everyone else is a bad guy xD
@Mark Branham has arms! ARMS I TELLSYA!!!!
Let me remind you, a Harvard educated, grown man, managed to turn out a book worse than your average wattpad fanfic
I would rather hear a fangirl getting sold off to One Direction than read any of this garbage
Fuck....you are right.
It's not where you graduated that makes you a great book author, it's an innate talent on how you absorb and use the knowledge gathered to craft stories.
Hey, don’t bash fanfic writers. Some of them are hella good.
@@HiBuddyyyyyy That is true. Enjoy a lotta fanfiction. But usually AO3.....Wattpad can be a bit off putting but I think thats an age thing and I have read the ocassional good fanfic there.
I love how their criticize the NYT but use "NYT bestseller!" as a selling point. Hardly the worst sin, but a point I laughed at.
@Draevon May but the NYT is fake news, haven't you heard?
if I'd had a book out and the Daily Stormer would feature me on their bestseller list (hehehe, okay, I made myself chuckle a little at that oxymoron) I sure as shit wouldn't put it up ion the cover. it's just another drop in the huge barrel that is Ben Shaprio's hypocrisy
@Draevon May I mean, At this point I've seen MANY books with the "nyt best seller" that are utterly crap reads, it's lost its meaning at this point.
@Draevon May I'm gunna go out on a limb and say, if a book sells a certain amount of copies and shows up on a website when you sort by "popular" that's one of the only real criteria to say it's a "best seller"
I've seen books that have basically no fans to speak of with the "ny times best seller", I go to conventions and there's a booth with an author I've never heard of releasing a new book and it's somehow got "new York times best seller" on it as well, it's plastered on so many books as a lable of quality when all it really seems to be saying is that you got 100 downloads on the kindle store in a day because it was in the discount section.
Edit: did some research, that's almost exactly how it works, and can even just have hand picked books by a curator, Literally a few people choosing what to put on the list, or its just sell x amount of copies in a week and they can count whatever number they want as a "best seller"
A quote from an article explains it well:
"The most important bestseller list is The New York Times bestseller list, and they are the worst culprit at this curated elitism. They readily admit that their list is only reflective of books that are selling at a certain number of bookstores and online retailers around the country -- but not an actual bestseller list. You know why they have to admit this publicly? They were sued about it."
Getting a NY times best seller means literal jack shit, it's kind of funny seeing Ben put it on his book as a badge of honor.
Worse, Trump actually did pull troops out to look better in media.
I knew that Shapiro was a pretentious elitist... But I had no idea that he was a full blown racist, and barely had a middle school understanding of geopolitics and sociology.
He also doesn’t really understand the basic concept of a nuke.
@@humanrealname1226 basic concept of nuke?
Juragan Traktor He thought nuking a hurricane was a cool idea
Juragan Traktor Also the nuke in this book didn’t really make sense as explained by José.
@@shlorbleflorbnad6927 wait. I once watch a movie when some climatologist suggesting to use thermonuclear bomb to stop a hurricane. I forget the name of the movie
In the sequel the protagonist is Kendrick Malone's older brother Kodak Yatchy.
Objection! Ben would not make a black character a protagonist, because then he would have to make them sympathetic and observe another point of view.
@@fruitygarlic3601 Objection! Protagonists aren't necesarily heroes. He could make his black protagonist the villain of the story!
@@thegrayghost1786 you people are pathetic lol
Let's not joke about something as terrible as there being a sequel.
@@ComradeCorwin this comment is severely underrated
Jim Crawford is a black civil rights leader.
Jim Crawford
Jim Craw
Jim Crow
Great writing, Ben.
Holy shit!
That's fucked up.
The only type of black people who Ben Shapiro don't have a problem with would be black Republicans like his Daily Wire colleague Candace Owens.
Ben is so spiteful toward black people it's ridiculous
I almost think Benny boy did that without consciously realizing it. It’s almost clever. Which makes it plausible that Benji Shapoopoo, being a complete hack, did it accidentally.
I guarantee you the black character was modeled after a real life guy Ben lost a debate to in college, and he consoled himself by believing that he’d grow up to become a drug dealer
Lost a debate? Probably lost a girlfriend.
@@Montesama314
Or maybe even both (and then some more).
LMAO
@@Montesama314 Hah. Thats funny- assuming Ben Shapiro ever had a girlfriend in high school. Idk how he found his wife
@@Montesama314 Or she was already dating the black guy and refused to dump said black guy on the spot on favor of dumping Ben.
"Kendrick Malone"
I'm fuckind dead. Other scrapped names that Ben probably thought of :
"Denzel Mane"
"Kanye Brown"
"Travis Cole"
I guess that's how his mind works.
Lmao
Diddy Cents
Joseph Ancion I wonder if he knows Post Malone is white. That’s what makes the name even better
Danny Gibbs, Andre Bronson, Open Mike Kelly.
LeBrown Black
His “heroes” are literally cartoonish villains. A child murderer, a terrorist, and a corrupt politician? Really?
Well stereotypes but they exist in real life
@@bendover2684 what?
@@silviogrijalva8801 hello
Corrupt politicians are the norm in America
@igeto12 maybe more like the third... Trump and Hitler rank higher
"Youngest general in American history at 41"
Wow, that's not even close to true....one of America's very first generals, Nathanael Greene was all of 32 when made Brigadier General, while Benedict Arnold was 35
Lafayette was made a Major General at 19
Winfield Scott made the rank at 28
George McClellan was 35
Ulysses S Grant was 39
I could keep naming dozens, if not a hundred or more, men who became generals before hitting 40 years old, but I don't think that's terribly necessary after naming merely half a dozen of the most famous in American history...
@Maxx Rice No because it would upset his, very, carefully (un)balanced world view😀
Lafayette was that young? Heard he had a pirate fleet at that time?
@@theparijat1000 Yep, General at 19
All I can figure is that Ben means the very specific rank of "General", which is symbolized by four silver stars and is thus often called "4 star general".
But having a 41 year old as a 4 star general because he's a killing machine is absolute nonsense. That's not how the Army promotes officers.
@@TheDarthbinky Maybe at some future point it will. Rules change. Maybe Ben is a visionary about the future Army. You never know.🤔 Or maybe he's too lazy to do a simple google search.
Ben Shapiro: Facts don't care about your feelings.
Also Ben: Nuking a hurricane would be cool.
AAHHHAAHAHAHAH!!!!
THIS IS SO GOOD! You're amazing!
You could also say that Feelings don't care about facts some people lie to themselves Because the lie is less Painful than the truth
@@lilhuddo609 yeah of course, everything in this novel was made up by Ben Shapiro, so if anything it provides an interesting study into his phycology and how little he actually knows about the world
I mean... he's not wrong...
There are these things called "jokes."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." ― _Dorothy Parker_
Thank you, I was thinking of that.
"Dorothy Parker" calls to mind a stern British woman and that makes this even funnier
Can I have a t-shirt with this emblazoned on it? I'm okay with or without the book's image with it.
With the ongoing toilet paper shortage True Alleigance will be an adequate substitute.
I don't have a strong opinion against Ben Shapiro, but that was fucking hilarious XXX DDD
Damn, Ben is so racist that he's even bigoted against the Irish. I mean, just look at those names.
Also, "Kendrick Malone" could not more obviously be a mashup of the only two rappers Ben knows about, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone. What makes that way funnier is that Post Malone is white
@Orion3227 I mean, the way he actually writes characters is EXTREMELY racist, but the names thing was a joke
@@whensomethingcriesagain killed off bret token black friend i knew that was coming
Orion3227 the funniest part is those aren’t the most cliche black names. Those are just two rappers’ names put together
Don't forget that the civil rights leader's name is just two syllables away from the term Jim Crow.
How is he bigoted and racist against the Irish? You've been horribly brainwashed by leftist radicalists who have told you Ben Shapiro is literal Satan, that all of his views are wrong and horrible, and that he's an idiot who should be killed. Or something like that. Idk.
the creeping realization that "kendrick malone" is just tamir rice
"by an 8-year-old"
"a toy gun and not a real one"
like by the time the realization hit i was like you CANNOT be fucking justifying the murder of tamir rice rn but then again it's ben shapiro so no surprise there
He defended George Zimmerman, So its not out of character for the scumbag
Holy shit, I didn't even make the connection, but you're totally right. Ben was always really obviously racist, but anyone that read those passages of his book that still defend him are racist too. There's no justification.
I was talking about the protests in Cleveland following the death of Tamir Rice and remarked that it would not be surprising if a movie on the events in Cleveland was made and titled "Ohio on Fire." I came up with the title on the fly and modeled it after the title of the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." The latter was a movie on the murder of three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June of 1964.
The weird part is, from the description of the scene, he didn't even do a good job of ATTEMPTING to justify it. He made the cop look like he was crazy paranoid. Then expects the reader to side with him. What
@@rickpgriffinexactly! He wants us to feel empathy before we know all the facts. He drops the 8 year old bombshell after the shooting to make us picture a late teen at worst, because he knows the readers would call him out on his bullshit if he gave context and set up the scene properly. It’s like if theirs a bar fight in a movie and suddenly the main character is in court for punching an 8 year old, who’s height, age and pitch of voice were never mentioned. Ben knows his own scene is unbelievable so he deprives the reader of information before he makes them feel sorry for the cop. He wants you to FEEL for him before you have the FACTS.bear in mind this book is aimed at people who already like Ben Shapiro and he’s still trying to deceive them to get them on his side. He knows his position is indefensible and carry’s on anyway
Did he really tried to justify a murder of a 8 year old?
Ben, get help.
Well, this is the same guy who said Travyon Martin shouldn't have used his self-defense when he got murdered and called him a criminal so....
pro life, of course!
@@deanmoriarty6015 ...unless it's not Judeo- Christian and not inside the womb.
my question is also that even if that murder was somehow planned, that in no way makes the events changed morally speaking. a cop still shot an eight year old unprovoked. he wasnt told to and if it hadnt been planned under shapiros logic it probably would have happened anyway considering there was a cop walking around ready to murder kids
2 minutes to midnight to kill the baby in the womb
"He could feel the threat before he felt it." Yeah Ben definitely didn't use an editor on this book.
Explains how the "cop murders 8 year old but is the good guy" plot got all the way through the publishment
I can't decide if there was no editing because Ben Shapiro is a petulant prick who'd raise hell if you touched any of his divinely inspired prose or if the publisher knew it was gonna sell and be reviewed based on name recognition anyway so why bother with editing.
Now imagine that spoken in a quick chipmunk voice.
"The liberal media wants you to think that editors make writing better. But if that's true, why don't the editors write their own book and wait for it to become the best-seller of all time?"
@@Tamlinearthly Editors are correctors, not writers. They supervise and advise.
For a child prodigy who graduated from Harvard shapiro seems to make some mind numbingly stupid points like how healthcare is a luxury like furniture
That's because he's a bought out asshole just like his wife by big pharma
Him and George Bush are why I put zero stock in ivy league schools
(edit) forgot about Ted Cruz
Brenton Lewis if she was as stupid as you claim how did she beat an incumbent with no connections to Washington dc
Brenton Lewis She’s definitely smarter than you.
@Brenton Lewis wow. You are very brainwashed.
You forgot the part where he makes every protagonist big and tall, like how Ben isn't, but every antagonist is short with very little facial hair, like how Ben is.
I’m surprised the little pimple didn’t name his black character Tyrone,to his extremely little credit.
Damnnnnn.....😏😏
He still named him a stereotypical "black" name
We know it crossed his mind
What’s wrong with Tyrone I have a friend named Tyrone
and it should have been Chad Hawthorne. Ben really dropped the ball
So the “Facts don’t care about your feelings” guy FELT so good about a review comparing his writing to his favorite author that he ignored the FACT that the review was not only calling the book awful but also wasn’t even about the book he used it as praise for.
The best bit about the book is when Ben has his mastermind evil black drug dealing hustler character mention how he occasionally goes to universities to debate conservatives.
That’s like Grade A projection right there.
That’s hilarious
you can just SMELL the bitterness
Lol
"His only crime was murdering an unarmed 8 year-old."
Ben showing his bullshit.
Implying that it would be ok if the child was armed
@@bt3743 Shapiro definitely needs to be treated like a King. Rodney King.
@@Skaramine Read what he said about Travyon Martin.
@@rickardkaufman3988 oh, I know about that too.
The 8 year old part is disturbing on another level. As a reader, it’s information not available prior to the shooting, but the cop is still looking at an 8 year old. Ben wants his cake and to eat it to, having the cop be tragic while civil rights groups are monstrous hypocrites. All while ignoring that his own character is jumpy enough to shoot a child. Someone who would very clearly look like a child. In the moment we don’t know their age, but it’s left ambiguous enough that the reader doesn’t put down the book and call out how stupid it is. Ben tries to frame it in his own narrative that the cop had no way to tell if the person he was talking to was a child. In that case, is this the kind of person who should have been given a gun in the first place? Shapiro tried to make it a set up but he just make his own character (a pretty blatant stand in for all police shootings) an unobservant and jumpy idiot
Ben Shapiro: Abortion is murder and should not be legal under any circumstances.
Also Ben Shapiro: *Glorifies and portrays a child killer as an innocent victim in his book*
I'm not going to argue with the second as I didn't read the book, but that's definitely not his stance on abortion.
@vctjkhme I watch Ben Shapiro. He doesn't say abortion should be illegal under all circumstances. Only legal when the mothers health is at risk.
@@gus1147 so a rapped victim should also carry a child without her own wants ?? That's fucking disgusting and stupid mind to think that way
@vctjkhme You're glad that pregnant person is going to leave her child motherless?
The point is that it was her choice to make. If you want a child, keep it. If you don’t want a child, no one should force that on you, personal freedom is more important than the appearance of life within a developing mass of stem cells
"Suddenly, his head filled with a sudden clarity."
What a lib-destroying genius.
Who needs to study a thesaurus when youve spent years studying THE BLADE?
Yeah, I don't think it counts as "owning" anyone if you infuriate them with your terrible prose.
mustve been post nut
I actually winced at that part.
The suddenness with which the clarity had suddenly suddened into his mind left with the same suddenness suddenly
I’m not racist I just made all the villains in my novel people of color
Invictus Deus did you not watch the video or are you just taking the comment out of context on purpose? Or are you an idiot? Pick one.
@@a.l.michael6240 lol. this test may be to difficult for him/her.
@Invictus Deus Oh it's your dumbass. Pretending to be a minority are we?
- H.P. Lovecraft
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 What? How did you get that out of what he said?
I can confidently say my fanfic about a drug addicted Yoda is objectively better than this, dialogue-wise.
Don’t be shy, drop the link
"ketamine, i must get"
Well, the exploration of realistic implications from drug abuse is infinitely more engaging than self-congratulatory super conservative schlock.
I need to know where I can find your fanfic about Yoda being a drug addict
"Luke, to complete your training, the cocaine cave you must enter. Take the cocaine from the beast within, yes?"
*very seriously to my dog*
_"Take a bullet for you, babe"_
Funny how it's closer to good writing when saying it to a dog than when saying it to a person.
Dont know how your dog can hear anything over all the whistling coming from this book.
Same. To my dog. And also to yours
Welcome back, Mr. Wick.
How dare you make me laugh about this shitty book.
In all honesty thank you it’s the only good thing about this
Absolutely no black child talks like a black man from a Quintan Tarentine movie
"Quintan Tarantine"
@@domscards whoops
@@domscards Quenintino Turpentine
@@LimeyLassen
Quiltino Tabernacko
Quentin and Tarantined by Written Directino
This book sounds like every angry 70 year-old's daily mail letter. "The world's going to hell because i can't say the n-word and cops can't kill kids! Political correctness gone MAD I tell you!!! It's all that blasted Britney Spears' fault!!!"
Bonus point if the angry 70 year old has dementia
LeAvE bRiTnEy ALoNe!!!!111 LeAvE hEr ALoNe!!1111 sHeS a PeRsOn!!!111 LeAvE bRiTnEy ALoNe RiGhT nOw!!!!111
@@edienandy true
@@fartmaster69420 very true
@@edienandy Oh no, Andy got into the joint account again. Edie, can you make sure he takes his meds and doesn’t watch anything too exciting? Put on some Ken Burns or something.
This book gives me strong “Trigger Warning” vibes. I’m surprised Ben didn’t bless us with frequent descriptions of how big Bret is.
Ahahahahahahaha, I love that Jenny Nicholson video.
Funny enough, Ben would later distribute a film based on the premise of "Trigger Warning" called Run Hide Fight. Jose did a whole video on that.
Brets needs an education
@@rickardkaufman3988 eh, I think Trigger Warning and Run, Hide, Fight are pretty different. the only connecting thread is that it's an action story set around a school shooting. if it really was inspired by Trigger Warning, it would have to be loosely.
I was a little bit uncomfortable by the homoerotic descriptions of Brett Hawthorne and I was understandably disgusted by "Run Hide Fight" as it seemed like Ben took bits and pieces of school shootings from the 1990's and blended them into a shitty film. I only said "school shootings from the 1990's" because a lot of school safety experts say that schools in the United States are safer now than they were in the 1990's; the decade most associated with high-profile violent school shootings. While I hope it never happens; it would be interesting if Ben Shapiro wrote a sequel to "True Allegiance" and set the sequel in Northern Ireland during The Troubles as we could finally get a glimpse of what are Ben's views on Northern Ireland. For those who are not familiar with The Troubles; they are defined as a thirty-year period of violence, terror and despair in the British Isles. The Troubles are generally considered to have started in 1968 with the Battle of the Bogside and ended with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The parties involved in The Troubles were the Catholic population of Northern Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Republican Army, the Protestant communities in the British Isles, the police forces of Northern Ireland, and the British Army. Ben would probably depict the Catholic population of Northern Ireland as IRA sympathizers and violent murderous thugs who take pleasure in committing acts of violence on the Protestant communities in the British Isles by bombing, beating, stabbing or shooting Protestants as well as police officers in Northern Ireland and British soldiers coupled with burning or bombing Protestant homes and businesses. Ben would probably depict the Protestant communities of Northern Ireland as well as the police forces of Northern Ireland and the soldiers of the British Army as good hardworking people who were desperate to stop the violence in Northern Ireland by any means necessary.
Ben Shapiros book but replace all the ones liners to "ok now this is epic"
Nick Penner was about to like the comment but I don’t want to disturb the balance
Should this be 77 likes or 777 likes?
Okay, that section where the cop draws his gun reads EXACTLY like so much erotica. It was _uncanny_ how many flashbacks that gave me. You just know Ben was typing that one-handed.
Guns are often Phallic symbols in literature, even if it’s unintentional. It’s gross.
Silburific 17 yeah it was so disturbing how someone killing an 8 year old reads like a sex scene
Eugh, I hope not. I know Ben is a nut job, but getting off to killing black children is a bit much even by his standards.
Actually, a guy jacking it to killing black people sounds like something straight out of South Park.
Nobody who has written a book titled 'How to debate leftists and destroy them' , (who then proceeds to label andrew neil of all people a "leftist" during a live television discussion) , should ever be taken seriously.
Thomas kane well that’s why he lost Andrew Neil wasn’t a leftist so Ben’s debate superpowers didn’t work
Brendan McCabe His superpower is an annoying ass voice and a tic that means he cannot let anyone other than him speak
Brendan McCabe It wasn‘t even a debate, Ben was somehow dumb enough to lose an interview he thought was a debate
Disappointed Turtle well turning interviews into debates isn’t always a bad thing David Bowie was getting interviewed on MTV and got into a debate into why they don’t show videos from black artists and it’s great he calmly lets him speak and then responds with why he’s wrong my favourite part being when the interview asked why would a teenager care about the Isley brothers and Bowie tells him aren’t black teenagers American. You can debate in an interview but not if you’re an idiot
Lee McDonald Exactly bro
This is like if Tom Clancy went off his meds, called Ben up in the middle of the night, and dictated a novel to him, except Ben's signal was spotty and he just filled in the blanks however he wanted when the call dropped out.
Clancy could write a better story than this and he's dead.
@@samuelstensgaard4828 He's certainly doing good at post-mortem coding, for all the games he puts out.
@@grfrjiglstan Tom Clancy best game developer!
@@grfrjiglstan LOL
14:40 I was born in Iran and to this day, I still ask myself what does it mean to hit me baby, one more time. It's a real philosophical quandary over there.
German here. Been wondering that myself for a long time. Drugs? Sado-masochism?
To finally solve that mystery I googled "What does hit me baby ... ", and right then autocomplete kicked in. Apparently plenty of people have been wondering that too!
Here goes. It means ... "call me". :)
Or it's supposed to mean that:
www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6753845/hit-me-baby-one-more-time-nsync-star-meaning-revealed
*puts on brainy glasses*
It's a double meaning. The first is it referencing a shortening of the phrase "hit me up", which is slang for "call me", with the "up" dropped for the sake of the song's candice.
The second is a reference to the other slang usage of the phrase "hit me", which means "show me" or "impress me".
So in the context of the song, the singer is inviting the subject of the lyrics to call them again so said subject can show them and impress them with how they intend to demonstrate a romantic relationship.
@@FlashNeko417 The first part is right. The second meaning isn't. I have never heard anyone say "hit me" to mean "impress me". Hit me can mean call me/ speak to me, and hit me (with) something can mean show me something, but "hit me" by itself means "fuck me", ie., have sexual intercourse with me. Especially in the 90s. Hit me up/ sex me is how I always interpreted those lyrics.
Guys I think Iranian terrorists would get it:
Terrorist 1: Mubideen Al Sharp Al-Shabum
Terrorist 2 : Frank
T1: " A Frank ! I got some primo Intel on that there U, S, of A... Over here"
T2: "Hit me with it."
T1: " heh , just like da song!?"
T2: " yeah Sharpie, you got the reference!"
Scene
Actually the song is about a girl who broke up with her boyfriend and now regrets it and wants him back. The line goes "Give me a sign, hit me baby one more time". Simply asking him to let her know he wants her back. The "hit me" just means that.
So basically, this book is an imaginary world that American conservatives think we live in?
Ben Shapiro luvs BBC accurate and all the more horrifying for it
I really wish that the US would just split in half. The conservatives can have their 3rd world shit hole, and the NORMAL, REASONABLE folks can have a modern society that accepts the tortured, huddled masses of refugees the conservative (we'll call it the Confederacy) America would inevitably create.
Absolutely.
@@Rejoice. 1. Divisions are bad
2. Muslim refugees may be problematic
@@Rejoice. or we could just have another good ol' civil war
The fact Ben thinks being Ayn Ran is a good thing says more about how bad he is then us on the left ever could.
I would love so much to flush that antisocial personality disorder hag from the collective consciousness.
Kkpok
Using "Meet our new Ayn Rand" as a pull quote is the funniest thing Ben Shapiro has ever done. What an incredible self-own
@Madalin Grama Look around, Rapture is in ruin.
I took it more as he was really scraping the bottom of the barrel to have a good quote to put on his book cover. Either way, pretty sad.
"She felt tears welling in her own eyes."
HOW MANY EYES DOES THIS WOMAN CARRY AROUND?!?!?!?!?!
and how many times do the severed eyes have to start randomly crying to make the fact that the tears are welling up in *her* eyes notable?
“Would you like to see my bag of eyes?”
@@ComedicLetter LMAO
In Ben Shapiro's world, enviromentalists want the US to import more oil lol
Yeah and the environmentalists pay lobbyists...
neznakomets well, even good causes do pay lobbyists because that’s how politics in America works. However, it’s laughable that Ben thinks those environmental lobbyists are somehow more powerful than the billions of dollars in the oil industry, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on lobbying.
@@seelenos nearly every conservative position is a result of lobbyists paying them, wtf is ur point here???
didn't you know the environmentalists TRUE agenda?! They just don't want the US to be energy independent!
By stopping drilling here, they give the US more pressure to import more oil from places such as Saudi Arabia, thus making the environmentalists 'useful idiots.'
Honestly that sounds more plausible than a lot of the other crap in this book. Unless it's implying the environmentalists are actively and knowingly colluding with the Saudi government, that would be unbelievable.
Like the way the police shooting was orchestrated to help left wing activists is so abhorrent. There's a much better example of a civil rights activist being duped into taking a case for someone who wasn't quite so innocent in the book Black Klansman. Ben should have done something like that if he wanted it to sound believable.
Some people are good at politics, but not necessarily at writing. Others are amazing writers, but wouldn't fare well as politicians.
Ben isn't that good with either
Juan Gutierrez lol
I'd beg to differ.
- Blackemperor-
Beg.
@@thebrutusmars Yes daddy.
@@Divinemakyr must be drafty down there, riding Ben's "little friend" like that.
"meet our new Ayn Rand"
It says a lot that Shapiro thinks that's a compliment
Personally, I would take that as an insult, but to each their own, I guess
Especially when the rest of the quote is clearly trashing his work.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx and not even the work that the quote was actually directed at
@@MrRyan-wu4jx that sums up Shapiro’s whole misrepresentation schtick - even more when you realise that he’d blame the publishing house for it.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx a lot of people are pretty good at cutting their quotes short
No wonder Hollywood didn't want to accept any of Ben Shapiro's scripts. He can't right good stories, and probably about half of them are just propaganda of glorify bigotry and murdering innocent people. This book's story structure is like one of Onision's books.
Well, Onision's early work anyway. Even this book is better than Reaper's Creek, though.
It would probably work as a satirical comedy
When even your TV executive mom can't get you a foot in the door through her contacts, you should realise your writing is complete trash. We're in an era when television networks are so desperate for "content" to cram between blocks of ads, they will buy any old shit from anybody.
Yes I'm surprised more people don't talk about this. It's gotta keep him up at night, and be a source of his hateful nature, amongst others.
Not even nepotism could get him work as a writer, he's that shitty. Plus, when you write "dramedies" from the view of an uptight bigot with no irony, it's a toss. Frankly, I feel bad for the assistants that had to read it.
Oh my God, you just made me realize that Ben Shapiro is like an evil version of me.
I love that he framed that Ayn Rand quote as an endorsement. It actually fits him perfectly because like Ayn Rand, the poster girl of anti-socialism who spent her twilight years receiving social security benefits, Ben is a walking contradiction that will always forego his principles for his own selfish gain.
Also she idolized a serial killer
Charles Châtenay for President 1900 didn’t ayn rand also say that Indians were stupid and deserved to be invaded?
Or am I thinking about Ben again.
@@PartnershipsForYou Probably both
She also wrote terrible books tbh
Ben hates socialism but gets publicly owned quite often
I actually had to stop watching and go for a walk when the revelation that the black 8 year old who was killed by the cop was a plant was revealed. Good lord
It hits right? It feels like something that should be a joke, like it's in some parody where the kid asks if he can come out during his funeral? The fact Ben wrote it entirely un ironically and went "ha that's what they'd have to do to beat my perfect debates"
Ben Shapiro really has never spoken to a black person huh
Probably spoken *over* a lot of black people, though.
Revolutionary Communist screw Candace Owens, she's clearly not getting any as it is.
EVER
... Jesse Lee Peterson?
Jones I’d like to simultaneously thank you and apologize for making you read that woman’s Twitter.
How are everyone of her takes so bad?? Like some self respect please??
So weird how these fascist fanfics have the main cast unquestioningly develop terrorist cells in America.
Turner Diaries did it too-weird.
Back when I didn’t know any better, I had a high opinion of Ben Shapiro. I thought he was THE MASTER of debates and insightfulness. Now it’s just. Jesus Christ dude
Everyone has that period in their life. Mine was in high school, but I fortunately grew out of it. "Rationalists" are con men and alt right gateways.
@@narkroshi88 I was on the edge, the gaming community was where I gained those anti woman and the "I'm not racists because blank" when I was in mid secondary school. I don't remember when I changed my mind, it was hbomb overall I think where I saw the issues of all this stuff I had heard over my life was just a lie. I for like a week supported Brexit and now I'm where I am. I still worry if I don't do enough. Ben Shapiro was a guy who my friends would joke about but I didn't know better about him or what I was supposed to do so just followed it. I'm lucky I found what i did when I did
Zachary Critten same, except mine only lasted for a few months. I got over it very quickly but that’s on growth isn’t it? Still you can see so many Ben Shapiro fanboys and pettersons subs. All I think is that they will probably get over it soon.
Interrupting people before they can make a point isn't actually mastering debate. It's just preventing it.
I got into this stuff when I was 20, angry and very lonely. It took a good 2 years before I realized how fucking miserable I was thinking them 'damn SJW's" were going to take away my freedom.
“What, he asked himself, does it mean to ‘Hit me baby, one more time’?”
~ Ben Shapiro
2:28 "He's the youngest general in US history at 41."
Straight off the top of my head, I know James M. Gavin was a good six years younger than that when he took command of the 82nd Airborne in WWII.
yeah, the youngest US general was 20
risi pieces Galusha Pennypacker
@@risipieces what about in modern times? What's the youngest in the 21th century? Just curious.
Ben Shapiro not doing research? Color me surprised. 🙄
@@optillian4182 he didn't need to. Even a foreigner like me knows about people like Custer or McClellan who were waaaay younger than 41 when promoted to Generals...
My undergraduate creative writing professor said we learn as much or more from "unsuccessful" fiction as we do from good writing. Ben woulda gave me a master class in the former.
Fax📠
Nobody in Detroit has said the word "honky" in at least 30 years, maybe 40
Ben Shapiro hasn’t been around more than 3 black people at any given point in his life
“Try his hand at writing some fiction” don’t be ridiculous, Ben Shapiro’s been writing fiction for years!
yes, but he hasnt been doing it on purpose before that
so it’s the thought that counts 🤔...
@@laurenbastin8849 Ben Shapiro and thinking?
YASS!!
@@laurenbastin8849 Need this so bad. Thank you for sharing you humor & cynicism.
Disturbing look inside shapiros mind, wow.
Some very big and smooth brained individual: "bUt PrOOvE tO Me hOW hEs A rAcISt"
Every single time Shapiro opens his mouth is a disturbing look into his "mind." -_-
i really didn't like this welcome into his twisted mind
This terrifies me to my core that anyone thinks this way.
He’s a right wing propagandist, so of course the innards of his mind are fucking psychotic.
Soledad's plotline has further convinced me that Ben Shapiro is secretly in love with AOC
Hey now, let's not accuse Shapiro of having good taste.
That said, it does seem from the lines given here like he was trying to make an AOC who could love him back.
Youre cute
Well, he has to fight Marjorie Hitler Crossfit for first dibs, then. She's so pathetically infatuated with her, AOC should get a restraining order against that creepy psycho.
Of course he is. Every night he dreams to get her feet pics.
Well, some people on the right-wing conspiracy side think that she's "a good one"... Err... A sleeper agent who has infiltrated the Democratic party and will eventually turn on them. This is mainly their way of dealing with their cognitive dissonance of AOC being both liberal and hot... 😂
Racism: a “novel”
Fun fact: His wife is a doctor.
what do you think the prostate exams are like?
and his cousin is Matilda
He does seem jealous of her work & consistently runs her down on his show. I hope she finds some self respect.
His sister runs Classically Abby. What a dynasty.
Also his wife has never had an orgasm
I love the mashup in Kendrick Malone. What did he turn down for that character. Post Lamar, Tyler the Black, Kodak Cole, Drake Peep, bruh
@Drawtist 4
And of course his boss Three Chainz
I can’t even lie Tyler The Black had me in stitches 😂
@@whybecuzporque4655 same lmao
Can’t forget Leevon Williams which is an obvious play on Trayvon Martin’s name
Thanks for these comments made my day ❤️❤️
I think my favorite part of this book is how, after the cop shot the kid, he couldn't breathe not because he realized he shot a 8 year old with a toy gun, he couldn't breath because he knew black people would be mad as hell at him. My second favorite part is how the black people from the Detroit neighborhood are described like the heartless from KH. It's so fucked up it would be good satire if written by someone smart.
Was the "I can't breathe" line a thing before George Floyd's murder? because this book was written in 2016, I believe.
Yes, it was. A Black man named Eric Garner was arrested in 2014 for selling loose cigarettes. As the NYPD tried to take him into custody, one of them put an arm around Garner’s neck and bore him to the ground. Multiple officers joined in pinning down Garner. Garner said, “I can’t breathe” about eleven times before losing consciousness. Approximately an hour later, he was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
@@mst3kharris
Oh… i didn’t know that.
Using “honky” as the insult for white people demonstrates that Ben Shapiro is a psychological anachronism.
It's because he heard that insult from a song called "thrift shop", so he assumed it was current
"Gun good, colored people bad": The book
Colored people with gun? Terrorists!
Dont forget about libtards bad
Despa Cito More like libtards OWNED
I prefer
"The gun is good, the penis is evil" from Zardoz
@@Seraphim737-l1i LIBTARDS DESTROYED EPIC STYLE !
So the black civil rights activist is called Jim Crow...ford
Wow so subtle and brilliant
my creative writing professor told us that anyone can be a successful writer...it’s gonna be hard to tell him that he was absolutely wrong
Ben Shapiro is not just anyone. He's a special someone.🤣
Well, depends what he meant by "successful"
Shapiro is arguably a successful writer
He succeeded in publishing a book… somehow
Maybe he meant it in a Ratatouille “Anyone Can Cook” sorta way…
@@SharkyMcSnarkface Never let Ben cook again.
Strawman: the Novel
So much this 😂😂😂
CommandoDude I thought we were talking about straw men
Heyoooo
I really liked the twist where, as it turns out, not only do the facts not care about your feelings,
But that *Ben Shapiro's feelings don't care about the facts*
@@jasonknott6787 I read your comment in the voice of the CSI redhead guy
Can I point out that ben's description of Detroit's people is less humanizing and more "mole people with glowing eyes that live in literal darkness"?
As an iranian, this makes me so mad. We had an 8 year long with iraq, our government is famously bad and cruel to sunni minorities. They're not on good terms.
it doesn't surprise me that Shapiro is unaware of the Iran-Iraq war, in his mind the mid east is Israel and people waiting to be conquered by Israel...
And I'm Russian. I don't want to even imagine what is said about us in this book :)
From what I know, you guys are both Shia majority and you still hate each other.
Bro I’m Mexican and I’m just. very afraid to think about how we’re portrayed in this book
I thought Iraq was also Shiite majority, one of only 3 countries in the world.
Iraq and Iran are still enemies, yeah, but I thought both were Shiite.
Lmaoo I love how Shapiro is extremely creepily obsessed with rambling about how “the left” is apparently fully emotional and irrational, but screeches and cries anytime someone criticizes him and plays the victim and claims they’re “anti-Semitic”
Aren't they though?
@ wot? jewish people arent "eternal victims" we were historiclly discriminated against, again and again.
Sam Harris is the same way. “Come on guys I’m Jewish. I can’t possibly be a racist”
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster I'm just wondering, how does someone not be racist? I'm clearly not in the same groups as the people here, and I keep seeing people saying things like just being friends with black people doesn't mean you're racist.
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster Stephen Miller is Jewish. Look how he turned out.
This sounds way too close to when Jenny Nicholson read ‘Trigger Warning’ it’s hilarious
Ah, a fellow Jenny Nicholson fan. Neat
I could listen to Jenny read the phone book
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Yeah but how BIG is Brett Hawthorne?
I've listened to that twice, it's so funny
Harvard should retroactively rescind this guy.
They should refund his degree. They clearly failed to give him a decent education
@@gustavoboscardin9351 He admitted to never expressing his own opinion and just writing 'sjw garbage' because that is what he believed his professors wanted.
The Ivy League: Where straight white men will never be heard.
Some More News does a great expose on Ben and DESTROYS HIM.
As someone who lives near Detroit and does a lot of volunteer work there, I find Ben's depiction of the city... annoying. Detroit has had a bad reputation ever since the riots of '67, but today its primary issue is underfunding. After those riots, everyone rich enough left. Those who left were nearly all white, of course. That left us with a poor, black population in a city that those outside of the city didn't really care to fund. Today, 80.95% of Detroit is black. It also has an amazingly unique culture, with great food, great music, and especially great museums. For those who are homeless, poor, or struggling in some of the not-so-nice-neighborhoods, the thriving charity organizations in the area (many of which are Christian, which Ben might like) are there to help where public funding doesn't. There are shelters for people to sleep in, soup kitchens to eat in (with very good food*), and youth centers where kids in the area could spend their free time in a safe environment. Generally, it's a beautiful city full of absolutely amazing people. Representations like Ben's not only shows it as crime-filled city full of crazy people, but also misrepresents the protests, many of which were peaceful aside from the demonstrations of the police. www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/06/01/3-days-of-protests-in-michigan-heres-what-happened/
*I know this because I've worked at a few of them before. I remember one had a full drum set and some other musical instruments with which a very talented band would entertain their fellow guests.
Ben is not a Christian, he is a cultist
A lot of people tend to believe that the 1967 riots in Detroit was the catalyst for the decline of Detroit; but it was more of an accelerant than a catalyst. The real catalyst for the decline of Detroit can be traced to 1944 as that year the city's mayor Edward Jeffries lobbied Congress for Federal funding to build expressways leading out of Detroit to the suburbs.
Bens jewish I believe
So, as a white tourist from Europe, this is safe enough to visit? Theoretically?
@@radschele1815if youre afraid of racist fearmongering abt black crime then feel free to avoid it, they dont want you there
This is like a Tom Clancy book, but with extra racism and much dumber geopolitics.
That feeling when Ben Shapiro's book is worse than books written by a fucking corpse in the ground.
At least Tom Clancy was subtle about his political messages and his villains were more than one dimensional communists.
@@mrnonsense1031 his ghostwriters were
@@mrnonsense1031 For real, every aspiring writer should read Hunt for the Red October. The way totally incompatible characters work towards a common goal while being undermined by agitators on both sides is such a clever metaphor for the Cold War. The politics of the Americans and Soviets is barely touched upon but the dialogue fills in all the blanks. There’s more subtlety in one chapter of that book than in Shapiro’s entire bibliography.
God this book made me so mad I wanted to slam it on my carefully crafted maple desk.
best comment right here
Oh hi Milo
"When she hires someone to bomb a US government building"
Ya know, like ya casually can do.
Tort "ye will do that bankrupt Farm lady for 2 fiddy...."
Tort you know as you do
She didn’t even have the guts to do it herself
You KNOW this guy got bullied relentlessly in school... and instead of developing **empathy** like most of us do, he went in the complete opposite direction...
So basically Porky Minch?
If ever there were a better anti bullying message then "Ben Shapiro was bullied and look how he turned out" then i haven't heard it
@@autobotstarscream765 Ahit, man, the memories...
Seriously, the “cool kids’ philosopher?”
Ben Shapiro is a 37 year old millionaire who by any financial measure is immensely successful and there’s a 63% chance he is currently jammed in a locker somewhere with a wedgie.
"Negative book reviews are Anti-Semitic"
-ben Shapiro
We all know he said that as a way to "make leftists feel bad"
Like when someone says "did you know the Democrats used to own slaves? Checkmate libtard, I'm better than you because a political party you identify with owned slaves hundreds of years ago! Which means you're the real racist!" When we damn well know they would never actually outright denounce slavery as being bad and only say that as some weird way to try to "ruin your ideology", it's the dumbest most transparent tactic I've seen.
Ben Shapiro was smart enough to go to Harvard but I think he's probably a sociopath and a sellout. Nobody could be as smart as Shapiro and still be stupid enough to believe such silly things and put them in a really dumb novel. That's some next level autistic savant stuff if he really is that stupid AND smart!
Rum0r r
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 Or maybe his constant outstanding intellect boosted his ego and allowed him to reinforce his views instead of critically analyzing them.
B A Baracas he always uses his religion as a shield when he’s being shitty
"Suddenly, O'Sullivan's head filled with a sudden clarity" did this dork have this thing proofread?
It reads how he talks... And when you really slow down the reading, you begin to realize how fucking stupid he sounds most of the time.
He did, but Conservatives can't.. read?
Did he write this in high school? It sounds like a high school student’s idea of how geopolitics work lol
A high school student can't be that stupid.
Yikes. Does that make this his life’s work?
I understand your point but it is equally disingenuous to assume that anyone believes he thinks his book represents exact and finite reality. That is, we can make a joke about his book and not subscribe to the idea that he believes the world of his novel is an exact replica.
However, as a debatable counterpoint, the rhetoric he uses in his debates and interviews should speak for itself against your feeling of necessity in writing that comment. Maybe he doesn’t think things are like his book on the scale of “geopolitics” (international, global politics) and maybe he is even able to admit his vision of national politics is skewed to hyperbole in many places his book...
But, with that said, his literary representation of modern issues in our national culture and politics are by no measure dissimilar to the views he states articulately and at length himself in his debates and interviews.
To think or suggest otherwise, to defend the rhetoric in his book as if the views in it are dissimilar to his talking points-as if the views in it are not persuasive to the beliefs and actions of those affiliated with his political orientation-is not only disingenuous, it’s an extremely dangerous and prejudicial stance to perpetuate.
@SpartanArmy117
Don’t feel the need to reply. It’s long.
I think you sort of repeated yourself as well, but I think I understand your overall point: response to his book is exaggerated and his message is about American values. I don’t think that the outrage is at all exaggerated, and you can disagree, but it is pertinent you at least understand a differing opinion, and I’ll only use the single, most obvious example of the rhetoric in his book: his black characters.
Think about how all his major black characters are portrayed: hard drug dealers and addicts who trick an unarmed child into being martyred by a police officer as a means for their opportunistic “race war” of the shadowy black community against the innocent police “honkies.” He in no way addresses the real issue of police brutality against the black community in a meaningful way, but frames the officer as a victim and the community itself as the villains in a propaganda war with absolute disregard to the fact the black community does not and has never controlled the flow of media in this country, and therefore don’t have control over what is truly propagandized to the people. As a recurring villain, the main black character is insistently placed on the same level as, or is constantly presented as less moral than, the other antagonists-and even some protagonists-who bomb domestic government buildings (Soledad), who admittedly try to incite a war in the Middle East with only self-verified evidence (Hawthorne), who try to blow up NYC (Mohammad).
What is the value he’s trying to point out here? That blacks caused their own problems, or always have a sinister ulterior motive, so we shouldn’t take their grievances seriously? That’s defamatory, prejudicial and fallacious. That a community grieving over a child’s death should be seen in the same light as the domestic terrorist acts against NYC because the child was engaging in criminal acts? Really? Outrage for Michael Brown equates to the attack against the Twin Towers?
Why shouldn’t someone be upset about this? This is literary propaganda and he of all people should know better, knowing the history of his people less than a century ago. This is literary propaganda that will only solidify resentment of vulnerable radicals against a target group-against the already most marginalized minority group in our country’s history-using rhetoric which, I implied before, is typical of the very political orientation that currently accounts for the most instances of radical domestic terrorism! Mass shooters most often align themselves politically right-conservative ideologies like Shapiro and his novel-and quite often admit to doing so and to being radicalized by the very types conservative talking points in their own manifestos that are implicitly preached throughout this book.
And the fact is that while bot sides of the political spectrum may try to claim that Shapiro’s rhetoric does not incriminate him if one of his readers are to be radicalized against blacks by it-that only the person who pulls the trigger is the murderer-we must be intellectually consistent: Hitler didn’t pull the trigger on millions of people yet HE is the one remembered for their deaths. He is remembered because he is the one we attribute to perpetuating the ideologies against the victims. This is exactly the same thing.
So, no. I have to disagree. The reaction to his book isn’t overexaggerated. There may be contrarily an underreaction.
But it’s okay, right, because the books values are biased against blacks and Arabs, while Latinos are morally gray and whites are a-ok. Asians need not apply.
TL;DR He doesn’t seem to advocate for consistent moral values and his rhetoric promotes ideologies against marginalized communities that may radicalize vulnerable conservatives who are already more prone to domestic terrorism through such rhetoric as admitted in their numerous manifestos.
@SpartanArmy117 First, I want to make it clear that other marginalized groups can also be used as examples from Shapiro’s book against him-Arabs, Latinos, women-but I’m sticking with blacks because that was my previous example and it has the most historical significance in his book’s context of American culture.
I do not back down form my statement. Marginalized groups, especially blacks, do not “control” the media. I think people tend to conflate the idea that marginalized groups have a bigger influence on the media now than ever before with direct control, but influence and direct control are not the same thing. Simply, someone in control can ultimately say no to influence. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Time, New York Post, Washington Post, the list goes on and on, and none of the members of this list are owned and run by blacks, and therefore none have any realistic, or often legal, obligation to be entirely honest about black issues or to even shed light on them in the first place. This is not a statement of conjecture either-it has been proven in countless articles by journalists and in countless courtroom trials around the nation that the press often does not hold themselves to an ethical and objective standard, but push an internal agenda that their majority interest decides. To think that blacks or any other marginalized group is controlling the narrative, and not that the majority group is consenting to pushing the narrative, when we have so much documented history that suggests otherwise is-and here’s that word again-disingenuous at best.
An issue you point out is that people are saying that cops unlawfully kill blacks at a higher rate, whether the victim was guilty of something or not. If that’s true, that’s obviously racist. Here is the problem no one ever addresses with your position: the opposite is still racist. Even if it weren’t true that blacks are being killed at a higher rate, the perception that it is true is raised when the majority-owned media continues to display that blacks are getting killed this way. That can’t be argued; they factually continue to display this. A false narrative about a race to further their victimization or spark division is still definitively racist. If either side you come from in the argument is racist-that they really are being killed or that the media is just showing them being killed-if either side is unjustly targeting a specific group to dehumanize with such an obvious bias, why do we continue to blame the victim group? Why isn’t the media working to educate the world on the real statistics of police brutality through videos of non-blacks being gunned down if the statistics are truly different from what we are shown on the news every night-if more Latinos or Asians are being unjustly shot by police?
These are relevant questions that need direct answers from anyone of the aforementioned position, and direct action from anyone who is in actual control of the media who are, once again, resoundingly white.
And yes, in the context of our argument, I stick by calling his book propaganda against blacks (and other marginalized groups) as well. I stick by calling Shapiro’s characterization of blacks purely racist, and his constant rhetoric shaming black culture doesn’t really help anyone’s case against my point, especially when he kicks and screams when others debate against his personal marginalized group (Jews, Israel). And his black shaming is constant-invalidating black grievances, delegitimizing black art, reading out statistics against blacks but neglecting to apply history as recent as the 80s to their situation; the deterioration of the black culture started in the 60s-80s after white Americans destroyed black’s potential for wealth with redlining, gerrymandering and destruction of black Wall Street and then subsidized the deterioration of the black family when the government organizations like the CIA brought hard drugs into their neighborhoods and initiated a war on drugs where black men were incarcerated and exponential rates to their peers. Conservatives, like Shapiro, will say these are black problems while never acknowledging whites created the issues and have never appropriately held themselves accountable. This is the issue with the rhetoric of his book, and that many people throw onto the black community: self-accountability, dismissing where the root of the evil is a white problem and even the perpetuation of the issue is not always definitively black. Black test scores are low?-black school districts have been steadily defunded for the past 40 years by white lawmakers. Likewise in his novel, Levon the drug dealer sells cocaine and is ready to jump on the police brutality bandwagon-who brought cocaine to black neighborhoods across the nation in the first place? And who controls-not influences-the media?
The thing is that what I’ve mentioned is the same issue with the movie you referenced. The movie is also rooted in propaganda, but from an issue we’ve already established is more likely rooted in a problem caused, controlled and solvable by the white majority: the perception of police brutality is succinctly an issue that has always been at the control of the majority. Also, I can only agree that the movie portrays two groups performing a racial bias against one another-it doesn’t clearly meet the requirement built in the definition of racism: belief of superiority in one’s own race, or that the officer was discriminated against because of his race-
(www.lexico.com/en/definition/racism)
(www.dictionary.com/browse/racism?s=t)
(www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism)
(dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/racism?q=Racism)
The characters were afraid of each other because one side led to believe white cops are killers and the other is led to believe blacks are dangerous because that’s what the media shows. That isn’t racism-they don’t believe white cops are killers because whites are just murderers and blacks are better than that. And while there is a historical narrative to more credibly justify the opposite as true, there isn’t enough information in the trailer to confirm it.
It does beg to question however why you’d ask if the trailer is profiling a single white cop while never clearly admitting to my point that Shapiro’s profiling of the entire black community in his book. This comparison shows that you are indeed intellectually aware of exactly the issue we’re talking about and how it’s implication as valid as true discredit the argument against me. This comparison shows that you may even agree with me that Shapiro’s book is propaganda even if you won’t define with that term, but that you may also have your own bias that relegates you to protect the white side of the argument. (That is not meant to be insulting.) It also implies that you may assume I wouldn’t recognize a prejudice because it’s against the majority group.
You know, this is a fallacious argument that Shapiro himself makes common use of in essentially every debate and is why so many people in the comments, as you pointed out, are so avid against him. This is a red herring and a strawman-it redirects from the argument that “his portrayal of the black community is propaganda” and it reframes it “whites can be victims too.” Neither of these things is a true position against what I said because neither refute my position with reasoning or evidence, but instead point out a different problem and say “this is bad too so you are invalid.” Whites can be victims too-so what? Does that nullify any iota of racist propaganda he wrote in his book?
And yes, his book proves that he’s a bad writer but not because of the message. Just read the book. His command of language is very limited and has the air of a middle school student, not an Ivy League educated “political analyst.” This seems like a personal attack out of context, and that’s why I implored you read the book to come to your own conclusion about his command of language in it.
(Also, you should be careful with the claim that many were justified; this is already long enough so I’ll just say that many of the major, nationally televised cases were not justified, which is the issue tackled in his book, if erroneously.)
The "take a bullet for you babe" line sent shivers of pure cringe and embarrassment up and down my spine.
It would make Tom Clancy cringe.
Secretly bi character in a Ben Shapiro novel confirmed?
If this were a parody, I would understand. But damn, this is just a terrible conservative fan fiction.
If you think this is bad, try slogging through fascist Kurt Schlicter's book "People's Republic"
Or any of that karl marks crap🤡🤡
These right wingers in the comments are self parodies; they cannot be bothered to spell and use basic punctuation correctly.
This book is the love child of fox News and adderall psychosis
im definetely gonna use that thank u
Omg that’s perfect
More like OANN these days
Don’t talk down to adderall psychosis like that!
I've been thinking Adderall this whole time lol
Ben Shapiro is one of the many reasons that it's hard to take right wingers seriously.
To be fair its hard to take anyone in the political spectrum seriously anymore but yes Ben is a nut case
@@sirsteam181 This.
@@razi_man Ok?
@@sirsteam181 ok^2?
@ Which is?
14:33 2021 version: "He was getting sick of listening to the Western-style sinful music blasting over the speakers. _What,_ he asked himself, _does it mean to 'bring a bucket and a mop for that wet-ass P-word'_ ? "
This may sound a bit offensive, but now I want a cover of WAP, where instead of Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion, it's a old Middle Eastern man, reading the lyrics (not singing them) in an almost confused manner, and the music itself stays the same 🤣
The entire music video is the same - same set and custumes, same background dancers, same moves - it's just that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are replaced by that dude
@@michellegodwin6567 YES 🤣
My Version: " _What_ , he asks himself _does it mean to 'Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-poker face'?_ "