#ben-shapiro

#ben-shapiro

Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur. Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds for the Daily Bruin, he has shown a penchant for the rhetorical grenade. Women who have abortions are "baby killers." Western civilization is "superior" to other civilizations. "Israelis like to build," he tweeted in 2010. "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock." Shapiro is now forty-two, and his rhetoric has mellowed only somewhat.

Ben Shapiro, the more they talk about Nick Fuentes, the more they raise his profile. Nick Fuentes, if I'm his agent, I would say, Nick, phenomenal. Your number one PR rep this week was Ben Shapiro,' he said. Send them a $10 GoFundMe and congratulate him saying thank you for supporting the cause and raising awareness to who I am.'

The reality is, that as someone who receives an inordinate amount of death threats and I know the kind of death threats Charlie was getting and you can break down the death threats and where they are coming from. Shapiro continued, If we are not politically correct, then we understand if there's a shooting at a synagogue, it's very likely to be either a white supremacist or a radical Muslim. If it's the shooting of a Republican politician, then it's very likely to be a trans, ANTIFA, Marxist shooting.

There's an attempt right now to basically say, if you shut up, you will be safe. And if you speak out politically, there's a good shot that some unhinged actor is going to take that as a threat and then come and try and kill you, Shapiro said, adding: Yeah, I mean, there will be. I've told my security team I will never again do an outdoor event.

Joy Behar's playful challenge to Ben Shapiro underscores the ongoing cultural debate about age and behavior, revealing differing perceptions of what it means to 'act your age.'