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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me this is just a phase. I can’t handle it. Yes I have warned him and educated him about alt-right recruitment as well as how to do your own research about topics and to get information rather than rely on inflammatory videos, etc.

He likes to debate with me and argue with me about it a lot - topics that this guy talks about, etc. I know this is how they form their views of the world and he’s only a junior in high school. But I can’t rely on his dad to refute this stuff as he’s pretty libertarian/conservative.

I won’t be able to handle my kid being a Ben Shapiro acolyte. [/quote]
What exactly has Ben Shapiro said that you don’t like?
(He’s an observant Jewish man from Harvard.)[/quote]

+1 I love hearing people say they hate Ben Shapiro (Steven Crowder, heck even Fox News) but when you ask why they can’t point to anything actually said. They just know other people say they’re terrible. Ben Shapiro is hilarious, incredibly smart, and I’d love it if my kids could debate like him. [/quote]

It's funny, you hear this a lot from folks who are trapped inside the far-right epistemological bubble. There are youtube folks who do nothing but spend time debunking the nonsense these grifters churn out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcTx_SXun_4

The problem is that social media platforms that folks like BS or Jordan Peterson dominate tend to push viewers deeper into a given silo, so it makes sense that someone who becomes a big BS fan would be unaware of any contradictory (i.e. correct) information.

I do have to say, one of my favorite quirks of the whole BS schtick is that his critiques of "social justice warriors" is such a critical component, but the second the topic switches to Israel, he turns into the biggest SJW imaginable. Even the mildest criticism of Israeli policy and he's instantly transformed into Huey P. Newton reincarnated. lol

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