Case in point. If you knew who he was and actually listened to him speak, you wouldn't make that claim. You can disagree with his views, but you can't contest the facts he bases those views on. This is why every speech he gives, when question time comes, he has everyone who disagrees with him skip to the front of the line. Any open minded Liberal who has given him the time of day knows that he gives facts, even if they don't agree with his point of view or his suggested solutions to different issues... I don't agree with many of them (I'm not a conservative or even a liberal for the matter). But I enjoy listening to educated people speak from both sides, and Ben Shapiro is undoubtably one of them.
@MaXtor
Maybe so, however, my reaction to your post was not in relation to Shapiro.
There are so many people these days that think the world should comply with their vision that following them all would require the entirety of my time - and that is something that I just do not have to give. With your post as inspiration, I found some quotes from Shapiro and those were just enough for me to know that I would fight against him and those viewpoints if they ever came to a serious forefront in society because, to me, anyway, it is yet another example of divisive elitism that attempts to erode the finer aspects of what it is to be human, inclusive, and interested in the free and benevolent progression of all of humanity.
To me, some of Shapiro's statements attempt to scapegoat others in society, much like many other prominent personalities these days, as the cause of all of societies problems, and I see that as coming from what are fundamentally cowards that cannot and will not look within themselves to find an avenue to their own improvement and/or find what they can do to improve the world without, unless there is absolutely no other recourse, resorting to inciting and committing violence against other human beings or gaining as much wealth as that can without regard to whatever and who ever is trashed in the process.
I cannot say whether Shapiro bases any of his material on "fact" and I am not interested in finding out for those reasons. Any "fact" that is professed to me as such is something that I investigate myself and make a determination from there. Anything can sound factual if presented in the proper context, but whether it is factual or not is something that requires a critical eye, or, in other words, a finely tuned bull$hit detector. As I see it, it is unfortunate that shock sells in today's society. If it did not, people like Shapiro would not exist.
You might be interested to know that Shapiro is getting his own syndicated radio show, starting in some markets, I think, on April 3rd.
This, however, brings me to the point of your post that did spark my comments and that is about the "facts" that the guy google fired supposedly spouted in his case for the causes of the lack of diversity.
First off, I do not think google is universally inclusive; rather, I see them as a parasite gaining its lifeblood through preying on humanity's quest for knowledge and placing the knowledge of those who bid the highest at the top of the search results.
Rather, though, than try to convince you that the "facts" supposedly put forth by the famous memo writer are nothing more than conjecture that is not supported by scientific consensus from any of the modern sciences fields including the humanities, I will say that what I think the memo writer did was point his finger at what I see as the systemic problems that exist in modern society and that stem, perhaps, from a lack of equality within all of humanity regardless of what society views as the usual categories such as race and gender when the lack of equality is discussed in virtually all forums.
In my eyes, it is unfortunate that he presented his material in the fashion that he did and then tried to claim his viewpoint was suppressed because he views himself as a conservative. The sum of this was that his comments were dismissed out-of-hand rather than sparking what I see is a much needed examination of the conditions behind the lack of equality. To me, he was unprepared to present his case and unprepared for the reaction that followed, and for me, anyway, that is tragic.
As I see it, what is needed are people that do not resort to scapegoating or charlatans tying words together in a manner that sounds factual but when examined in depth prove to be specious.
