 Well, folks, you know what they say you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain And that's what's happening with Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro a supposed free speech warrior I believe that this is the way that he would describe himself He decided to shut down a student and censor them because this student decided to show up at a panel that he was having in Iowa and Try to press him a little bit on his definition of woke and Ben Shapiro didn't like that Ben Shapiro started to lose this debate and then what he did was censor the student take a look So are your do you come from Holocaust survivors or are you a Jewish family that didn't so my Great-great-grandparents arrived here a lot of our extended family was killed in the Holocaust But but our our immediate great-great-grandparents, but not your grandparents right. Oh, do you have friends whose grandparents were Holocaust survivors or anything? Of course many of them yeah, I've written I've helped I've helped write memoirs of Holocaust Yeah, yeah, their families are kind of messed up right like my family is very messed up I mean they teach that trauma between generations, you know what I mean? Well, I mean trauma very often in a lot of circumstances has passed down I mean, I know some kids of Holocaust survivors are now fantastic and some who didn't yeah Yeah, yeah, okay, so you are officially woke. That is what wokeness is about. It's like You know people's grandparents or their great-grandparents were slaves Guys I actually want to hear I want I want to hear it's okay. It's okay I want it. I want to hear the let's at least hear the argument. What's okay. So let's let's hear it Let's hear it go what he wants to hear. I do want to hear it. It's fine. Let him go. Well, let's hear it Explain how that's woke so I mean the whole thing is is like oh let's see So during Silent cow Calvin Coolidge's administration. Do you know about like the great Mississippi flood back in the 1930s? I understand that American history is filled with racial. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and and that causes some Intergenerational trauma which affects people's ability to be okay. So let me let it things like that fine So let me ask you a question. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so if the idea is that History has consequences. Of course. That's true. That's not. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah That is not what we're going to suggest is that fundamental institutions in America? No, it doesn't yes I ran I ran Elizabeth Warren's campaign. I helped organize her volunteers around here. I am I Am a representative of wokeness. Okay. Well, that's just this is all it is. Well, I mean like I mean I You know, I when I went to go get my first tattoo I had lightning bolts and 88's tattooed on his neck and as a Jewish person That's really messed up. So it's basically a threat There are there are racist people who exist the argument that you're making and I'm gonna close with this because this is going in weird directions And I don't really know it's not Just hold up a second. I let you get out your arguments That's now it's time for me to respond to I let you say okay. I'll let you respond but no no not by now It's my turn you You are not characterizing what I'm saying accurately now now it's now it's my turn your your your definition is inaccurate The reason your definition is inaccurate is because any sentient human being would acknowledge that history has consequences Right, but if the idea is but that's not what woke ism is woke ism is a different thing woke ism suggests that all inequalities of today are attributable to not only historic injustices But also continuing injustices in the now and that all Anybody to describe that but a conservative not just that conservative is the only person not just I want to know why Why is it that conservatives are the only people who define it like that? Why are conservatives the only people? Okay, so we're gonna have to we're gonna have to stop here because this is going nowhere But what's up? I'm gonna have to stop with this with you because this is going nowhere. All I'm going to say is this No, I just I'm trying to understand your perspective Just one more second You say on a fundamental on a fundamental level you're shifting definitions to avoid the consequences of your own argument and if the idea is And then final point and final point And final point if you are going to hold on if you are also Also just final points is shown up there So the only explanation as to why ben Shapiro shut down that exchange was because he was losing I mean that person was very clearly trying to engage in good faith But that's not what ben Shapiro wants at these events when he opens up the microphone He's not looking for a good faith conversation He's looking for a clippable moment of some, you know A naive college student that he can own put that up on youtube and say ben Shapiro destroys Woke college student and then you profit off of it with the clicks You know, so that that's really what this is about So if that individual there who challenged him thought that ben Shapiro wanted to have a good faith conversation Then you know, he was mistaken, but I don't I don't think that you know, that was the case I think that he knew what he was getting himself into now. Um, I don't necessarily understand Why ben Shapiro's definition of wokeism Is wokeism let let me explain so he says that woke is defined as um all inequalities of today are attributable to not only historic injustices But also continuing injustices in the now and that all disparities attributable to discrimination Okay, that's institutional racism, but why does that Become woke like what about that specifically is woke what? qualifier turns that into woke So it's systemic racism as I understand it, but there's something about that that makes it woke what? And I don't think that Ben Shapiro really could explain that I mean systemic racism according to a lot of conservatives is probably being woke Just being socially progressive Not being a hateful bigot is woke because the way that the right has used the term woke is essentially As a synonym for things that they don't like it's the same way that they use communism Oh, well that person said something that I disagree with they're a communist I mean these words have meanings right, but woke isn't necessarily, you know, a well-defined term But it's essentially just a perturbative for anyone who is left leaning at this point That's functionally what it has become even merriam webster says that that's what it is They say woke is now defined in this dictionary as aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially issues of racial and social justice and identified as us slang It originated in african-american english and gained more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the black lives matter movement By the end of that same decade It was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left leading Yeah, so it just means Lefty it's the new sjw. I mean even donald trump said that he unendorsed a particular republican running for uh congress Because he went woke now in what way did he supposedly go woke? Well, he said that we should move on from the 2020 election and even though he absolutely thinks the election was stolen For joe biden. Well, maybe we should move on trump said he went woke and unendorsed him. So really going woke It just means bad That's the way that the right uses it So it it essentially has no meaning and this is why conservatives consistently have to come up with new terms, right? sjw Uh woke snowflake It's because they end up taking these definitions and they stretch them so thin that they lose all meaning So they have to come up with new terms To continuously name call lefties because they can't actually engage in good faith on the basis of our arguments because They lose hence why ben chapiro shut down that debate and censored that student now I want to get to some reactions here. So jason campbell says ben chapiro's entire persona is built on speaking with mirrored authority It's a trick that works only when he's not scrutinized, but underneath it all there's just a vacuum exactly window says does ben chapiro think you're wrong is an argument You can't just cut them off before they give an actual reason ben. That's not what an argument is Also, are these stagehands actually just censoring this dude because he said ben's definition of wokeness was wrong Yeah, and let's let's explore that a little bit. We just watched another event where ben chapiro responded to hecklers Who said fuck you and he said fuck you is not an argument Okay. Well, you're wrong is also not an argument You laid out your definition. He laid out his definition. Why won't you engage? Well, we all know it's because ben chapiro He doesn't want to waste his time. This isn't going to be a clippable moment This isn't going to be one of those instances where he can clearly say I destroyed that naive college student It's not so he's challenged and you know, all of these students challenge him But they're not as rehearsed as ben chapiro is love him or hate him I mean, this is an individual who is at least on the surface level seemingly intelligent He's articulate and he can speak very fast and he's rehearsed all of these talking points again and again So it's very easy to look foolish when you go up against someone like ben chapiro who does this for a living And so he doesn't want to actually engage with someone because what value does that yield to him? You can't clip that out But we can clip that out on the left because we prove that ben chapiro is a free speech fraud He's a sensorian right? He just censored that person some more reactions here. Hasan says imagine getting owned by an elizabeth warren student organizer Exactly Justin Bargona quotes ben chapiro saying i'm going to close with this because this is going in weird directions speaks at 2.5x speed Exactly. Um, so I might be dating myself here, but does anyone know who twista is? twista is uh, a guinness world record holder for being the fastest rapper in the world he can uh speak 598 syllables within 55 seconds So to me i've long maintained that ben chapiro is the political equivalent of twista because he could spit fast But nothing he's saying is substantive at all and look I'm a fan of twista. I grew up with twista's music, but if you really try to parse out the lyrics and understand what he's saying None of it really is valuable or substantive or deep at all And that's really what ben chapiro is. You know, it's all a facade. There's this appearance of intellectualism and intelligence But you know, this is the same guy who told people that if you know Your house is under water due to climate change. You could just sell your house and move so I mean Ben chapiro He doesn't really know what he's talking about because he's trying to just Get these owns in he's not actually looking for an intellectual debate. He's not intellectually curious. He's a hack And I think that this clip it proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt