Ben Shapiro on Houston vs Berkeley

[Matty]

Good, short opinion piece from Shapiro. It's short enough that I'm quoting the entire thing:

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Identity politics and grievance politics are ruining this nation. Both my their very nature require dividing against others, dividing against the "system" that is out to get them. It breeds distrust and hatred and pessimism.

I hope we get rid of this method of gaining political support.

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Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

[Virginiá]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

I wonder what you'd start saying if those dastardly neoliberals were ever not in power.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Yeah the guy who use to write race baiting articles for Brietbart until Bannon took over and started going after Jews which offended said race baiting author cause he was Jewish is right, identity politics is bad

[Matty]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

What is "neoliberalism"?

It seems like a term that has no concrete definition, and is used as a bogeyman.

[publicunofficial]

Everything he wrote is undermined that Ben Shapiro is one of the most divisive, repulsive, pieces of s**t currently getting paid to write opinions.

[Devout Centrist]

What an idiot

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Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

I wonder what you'd start saying if those dastardly neoliberals were ever not in power.

They'd probably just pretend to not be in power. If they were ever actually not in power, I'd be in total shock.

[afleitch]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

I wonder what you'd start saying if those dastardly neoliberals were ever not in power.

They'd probably just pretend to not be in power. If they were ever actually not in power, I'd be in total shock.

Going by your track record if 'neoliberals' stopped being in power you'd be the last to notice.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

I wonder what you'd start saying if those dastardly neoliberals were ever not in power.

They are in power. They have a stranglehold on the Democratic party, the only thing that can and probably will stop them is the voters.

[Crumpets]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

What is "neoliberalism"?

It seems like a term that has no concrete definition, and is used as a bogeyman.

It used to mean support for deregulation, privatization, free trade, and anti-unionism.

Now I guess it just means "not socialism."

[Technocracy Timmy]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

What is "neoliberalism"?

It seems like a term that has no concrete definition, and is used as a bogeyman.

It used to mean support for deregulation, free trade, and anti-unionism.

Now I guess it just means "not socialism."

Neocon and Neoliberal are ironically enough being used as boogeyman words just as much as "liberal" and "socialist" have historically been used.

[Don Vito Corleone]

Ben Shapiro complaining about someone else being divisive? What next, is Donald Trump going to call someone else incompetent?

[Don Vito Corleone]

Good, short opinion piece from Shapiro. It's short enough that I'm quoting the entire thing:

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Identity politics and grievance politics are ruining this nation. Both my their very nature require dividing against others, dividing against the "system" that is out to get them. It breeds distrust and hatred and pessimism.

I hope we get rid of this method of gaining political support.

Right now, define Identity Politics.

[KingSweden]

I mean he's not wrong but Ben Shapiro of all people doesn't have much of a leg to stand on re: this subject

[Associate Justice PiT]

Good, short opinion piece from Shapiro. It's short enough that I'm quoting the entire thing:

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Identity politics and grievance politics are ruining this nation. Both my their very nature require dividing against others, dividing against the "system" that is out to get them. It breeds distrust and hatred and pessimism.

I hope we get rid of this method of gaining political support.

Right now, define Identity Politics.

     Not the OP, but identity politics generally refers to the idea that people should support policies based on membership in a group that is judged to align with those policies and not because they are, y'know, good policies.

[Devout Centrist]

Agreed that both parties use identity politics to distract people from what terrible neoliberal parties they are. Both Antifa and the white supremacists are helping keep the people divided and the neoliberals in power.

I wonder what you'd start saying if those dastardly neoliberals were ever not in power.

Virginia, anyone who's not an anti-revisionist is a neoliberal to jfern