Wingnut affirmative action as reductio ad absurdum
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ben Shapiro:
Sorry, holding out for the candidate with the courage to come out for making crime illegal pic.twitter.com/oq2qGvfhg1— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) June 18, 2021
It’s time to remember one of the most instructive grafs of contemporary American journalism:
Mr. Shapiro, conservative thinker, entertainer, trash talker and destroyer of weak arguments, has been called the voice of the conservative millennial movement. He represents the tastes of an emerging political class: If Rush Limbaugh is someone your dad listens to on his car radio, Mr. Shapiro, 33, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is the cool kid’s philosopher, dissecting arguments with a lawyer’s skill and references to Aristotle.
Years later, and I still can’t believe this is real.
And let us recall that this quality of commentary isn’t limited to strictly political issues. He is a true cool kid’s renaissance man of self-ownage, as you can see from this trenchant analysis of the recent hit single “WAP”:
We truly live amongst giants.