Trans man completely roasts far-right pundit Ben Shapiro to his face
Trans man completely roasts far-right pundit Ben Shapiro to his face
Yeah, I watched that video in full. If you want to see the particular exchange in question, skip to 35:09.
There were some half way decent arguments made throughout this...thing, but when that trans man got up and basically used Shapiro's own shitty tactics against him, and then refused to play nice or give Ben any room to quickly change the subject or resort to his usual whataboutisms, I started to cry.
In just a few short minutes this man said what so many have wanted to say to Ben for so long. That Ben's truly dangerous and hateful rhetoric has real and profoundly harmful consequences for the people he demonizes.
Ben pretends he's the most reasonable of the right wing grifters, and maybe he is, but honestly, that means less than shit. I've seen liberals and democrats (even in this very video), acquiesce to Ben on certain issues because he puts on this false air of being some kind of reasonable conservative who simply has fundamentally different views than democrats and leftists, but he's not.
Ben Shapiro is not reasonable, he is not cordial, he is not even a remotely decent debater. He's just a different flavor of right wing extremism that is just as dangerous and deplorable as Matt Walsh, Steven Crowder, Jeremy Boring, and the rest of the Daily Wire scum. The only thing that truly differentiates him from the others is that he's Jewish, which honestly must keep him up late at night when he has to wrestle with the fact that once the republican party splinters in the upcoming years, will likely turn on him in ways that are reminiscent of the third reich.
This awesome trans man spit some raw truth over that shithead’s face. I wish I could shake his hand. I could have watched two hours of him tearing Ben apart. Fuck Ben Shapiro.
Ben pretends he’s the most reasonable of the right wing grifters, and maybe he is, but honestly, that means less than shit.
The only thing that truly differentiates him from the others is that he’s Jewish
As much as I detest his terrible positions at-least he admits that he is a hypocrite for not being vegan. Its rare to see republicans have self reflection like that.
That was beautiful. Ben Shapiro doesn't deserve to be debated, he should be dressed down and disregarded at every opportunity.
Gotdamm! I have a new hero
What an MVP.
Brilliant! That dude might have a vagina but he's also got some massive balls!
This reminded me so much of the final rap battle in 8 mile!
Ben got mopped up good!
"Because there is no legislation in the history of America that legislates a man’s body, so why does mine have to be legislated?"
I love what this man is saying except for this part. It drives me crazy every time I've heard it. Has nobody heard of the fucking draft? I would say forcing someone to go die in a war is the ultimate legislating of a person's body.
Legislating autonomy isn't what's being talked about when discussing legislating someone's body. And while I'm sure there has been legislation on a mans body in American history, forced sterilization comes to mind, I think a pedantic linguistics debate isn't really the pertinent issue in this conversation.
That is a false equivalency and patently not valid. There were deferments, medical or educational. It was Federal, most posts were not direct combat with an 031* MOS. Many men went to Canada, or AWOL or were conscientious objectors. Also at the end of it all a large part of society considered them having completed their sevice and honored them as heroes and veterans if they finished their tour/rotation.
I'm not going to get into how terrible the VA is, or how useless the GI bill was during 'nam. But no, the draft does not equate to the looooooooong history of legislation that was levied on women, everything from there not being marital rape to being required to carry a rapist's insemination to term. Fuck that whole trail of logic there.
Yes men can be sexually assaulted and yes the draft sucked, but it does not equate to female bodied or female presenting people's plight under the patriarchy.
Just to update others on just how wrong you are there is a link below.
Why is a false equivalency? It is a law that controls men's bodies. My uncle and father were forced to go to war against their wills. They survived but they both knew many people who didn't. My uncle ended up dying from problems caused by his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Many men went to Canada
Would you accept the excuse for banning abortion that women could just go to Canada to get one? Of course not. Fuck that.
I would say forcing someone to go die in a war is the ultimate legislating of a person's body.
As someone who served in the US military for 20 years and got regularly mortared in Iraq, I can easily say that serving in the military, even during a time of war, is not an automatic death sentence. Sure, you could argue that forcing you to join up and travel to dangerous places is restricting your freedom of movement, maybe some civil liberties at times. But the ultimate goal is not to die.
Plus, we've expanded the Reserves so that we don't need to do a draft anymore. The draft is ancient history. There are so many people who voluntarily signed up for the Reserves that we would probably need 3/4 of America completely overrun by enemy forces before we'd need to enact a draft again. We're a 100% voluntary force nowadays.
Heck, during the Iraq War, most of my fellow active duty members didn't really need to change their daily work routine because the Reserves were the first ones sent to war. We had so many people volunteer to serve that our active duty military didn't need to do all that much. I didn't go to Iraq until 4 years later, when things started to get a little heated and they needed more active support to hold our positions.
I was 0317 by the time I left the Corps. Fuck @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
What you are talking about is the difference between choosing to carry a birth to term and someone being forced to do the same. It's a big fucking difference. And the draft is still on the books. It can be reinstated at any time (just like all those anti-abortion laws on the books were reinstated after Dobbs).
what about the psychological damage?
I wish more people treated Shaprio like that. 100% deserved for all the condescending hate he spreads.