I will stick with 2pac and Eminem instead. No thanks.
Nope. Not giving that douchebag a view.
+1 on the “don’t engage him or this” gang.
Agreed. Engaging trolls lends implicit credibility to their platform, and they have no requirement to reciprocate that credibility.
He’s done it before. The answer is to stop watching it.
I feel like we need to do something more.
Viable options to stop Ben Shapiro exercising his Constitutional right to be a cringey cryptofascist:
1: Ignore him. His model of conservative activism depends on the left’s impotent outrage to signal boost his message.
2: Violence
As a white person my perspective is that we are all thieves with no actual culture.
Who tf identifies culturally as “white” apart from white supremacists? There’s no such thing as “white” culture. There is slavic culture, german culture, italian culture and so on. Saying “white people have no culture” is like saying “people with blue eyes have no culture”
His WAP-word cover is way better.
Don’t give this twat attention.
It’s number one on iTunes charts right now. How much effort did they have to put in to game that system?
Hate listening is listening.
Ouch… this hurts because it’s true… I’ll probably go through a reaction video just to deny views.
Who thought those things would ever fill an important function…
Hate listening drops off fast though because you only hate listen once
$$$$$
No. Tell me it’s not this. I can only take so fucking much.
facts don’t care about your feelings
Isn’t he religious or something?
He’s a republican, so the shirt is more ironic because they don’t know how to care more about facts than their feelings
more so because the design looks loosely based on the DARE anti-drugs campaign which was also based entirely on feelings based responses and not data
He’s the “Pope of the Jews” according to Majority Report
How the fuck is that meant to make sense whatsoever?!
It’s bad enough when white people who don’t hate black people appropriate black culture…
He’s a douche, don’t give him the satisfaction of your tears.
But for the love of everything that is sacred, stop with the cultural appropriation nonsense.
It’s music used to express oneselves. All music is a mixture of many different predecessors and has/will evolved into new styles for new groups… Culture is a shared experience even by the “out group” you seem to be defining.
The cultural appropriation rhetoric only serves to alienate people that might have been or could have been allies, the people that you end up accusing will only revel in the accusation.
It’s not about music.
It’s about a racist guy using music that was invented by black people.
Shapiro claimed that “Colin Powell was an affirmative action general”.[28] He also decided that “[t]he Obama administration is” using “racism to let black criminals off the hook, justify illegal immigration, hamstring law enforcement across the country, and push redistribution as a solution to supposed continuing discrimination against ‘people of color.’” As a result, “[t]he next race war will come not from racist whites, but from racist blacks and Hispanics who feel empowered to act on their racism by an administration that excuses all minority misbehavior.”[29]
In a 2018 episode of the Ben Shapiro show, Shapiro tried to argue that assuming all black people are criminals is a reasonable use of group data rather than racism. This included justifying avoiding young black people on the street and hiring no black people if you can’t run a background check.[30] No word was given on whether or not he would see it as reasonable to refuse to hire or rent to men because they have a higher violent crime rate than women.
In his “U.S. President Tier Ranking” video, he stated that the Civil Rights Act was wrong because it infringed on the freedoms of private businesses (these “freedoms” being the freedom to discriminate against black people).[31] He has also expressed support for Charles Murray, listing him among a series of conservatives who he claims were unfairly maligned by the rabid Twitter mob.[32]
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Shapiro
So yes, when Ben Shapiro raps, he is appropriating black culture.
Yes, Yes, Shapiro is a douche, we agreed on that there is no need to copy-pasta his “best of”. Do not give him clicks (someone else commented, hate listening is still listening)
The point was and still is that the “appropriation” rhetoric is such weak sauce that is hurts the other points you are making instead of helping it. A lot of people will read your comment and might even agree, and when they read “cultural appropriation” they immediately dismiss everything you wrote. Culture is shared not owned. Even things like rap are experienced by everyone (albeit in different ways, eliciting different reactions and feelings) there is no owner. Just like the whole hair braid discussions… useless…
But fine you go ahead and yell into the void.
I was going to make a substantive reply to this, but I don’t think the rudeness at the end there was warranted, so I won’t.
I was merely trying to point out that all the other things Shapiro is and says are way more damaging and heinous and they fall flat if intermixed with these points. Not to be rude. At that I failed and I appologise.
Okay, fair enough on the rudeness.
My point wasn’t to say in any way that any white person rapping is culturally appropriating.
I am saying when racists take expressions of a culture that they are racist against and uses them, then it is cultural appropriation.
Minstrel music involved playing folk songs sung by black people, accompanied by a banjo, which was a traditional instrument of black people, sung in a fake black vernacular. They were also in blackface, but the blackface was not what made it appropriation. The “this thing you created is ours now too, you N—s” that made it appropriation.
And this is no different.
Here are some of the lyrics to Shapiro’s rap. They are absolutely done in a ‘black’ vernacular:
Let’s look at the stats, I’ve got the facts
My money like Lizzo, my pockets are fat
Homie, I’m epic, don’t be a WAP
Dawg, it’s a yarmulke, homie, no cap
Shapiro doesn’t talk like that normally. Ben Shapiro doesn’t call people ‘Homie’ or ‘Dawg.’ That’s Shapiro trying to sound “black.” That is textbook appropriation.
So I’m sorry if people take me saying ‘cultural appropriation’ to mean ‘Ben Shapiro is a white person doing music invented by black people,’ but that is not what appropriation means, so I don’t think that is on me.
It’s bad enough when white people who don’t hate black people appropriate black culture…
My point wasn’t to say in any way that any white person rapping is culturally appropriating. I am saying when racists take expressions of a culture that they are racist against and uses them, then it is cultural appropriation.
It’s your original comment that’s inconsistent with this. Maybe it’s not what you meant, but it reads like you’re saying “it’s bad enough when white people appropriate culture, but it’s worse when racists do it”
The song, if you dare. I couldn’t make it past 30 seconds.
Not today, Satan! 😂
Can someone please pirate and share this somewhere that the monster won’t get monetized?
Here’s a reaction video with the full song…
Yeah, I want to click that just for the cringe factor, but I just can’t justify the triple threat of monetization for Elon, Tom McDonald, and Ben Shapiro. That’s like the unholy trinity of white fragility.
If you watch it on freetube or newpipe you can take some pleasure from the fact that it’s at googles expense.
I got to Shapiro. Rough.
Also, wtf is that first rappers name, dog whistle?
Tom McDonald, he’s a canadian alt-right grifter. Don’t waste your time learning anything else about him lol
Yo fuck you I feel smeared with shit just seeing this here
Five years from now, you look out upon the charred ruins of what used to be your neighborhood. You remember this song. That was it. That was the moment that the stupid became terminal.
“YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GOD! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!”
This is fake, b*n sh*piro doesn’t believe that rap even counts as music https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8zeiFF1SNCY
