https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWi_EG3 ... c7QMnpfKqK
The media have found their target on Trump for now: he's not empathetic enough about the Harvey victims.
Ben Shapiro: Does "empathy" matter or do actions matter?
Re: Ben Shapiro: Does "empathy" matter or do actions matter?
Also, Pelosi denounced the Antifa! Wow. Maybe this is getting somewhere.
And Berkeley stupidity. Ben's event is not the same as the other event that is more alt-right focused. Different event, different crowd, different views. Media is conflating them.
And Berkeley stupidity. Ben's event is not the same as the other event that is more alt-right focused. Different event, different crowd, different views. Media is conflating them.
Re: Ben Shapiro: Does "empathy" matter or do actions matter?
WaPo has been a little better than most in these kinds of things lately from what I've seen. Maybe we are getting somewhere.
Ben's railing on the extremism on both sides is because it completely dilutes the real conversations we should be having. Granted, there will still be disagreement there but the idea is to have rational, non-violent debates. Extremism also makes extremism worse. You think "well, I don't really agree with all the things these people are saying, but they are against THOSE people, so I guess I side with them."
Ben's railing on the extremism on both sides is because it completely dilutes the real conversations we should be having. Granted, there will still be disagreement there but the idea is to have rational, non-violent debates. Extremism also makes extremism worse. You think "well, I don't really agree with all the things these people are saying, but they are against THOSE people, so I guess I side with them."
Re: Ben Shapiro: Does "empathy" matter or do actions matter?
At least this guy gets it. Hopefully Pelosi's statement will kick off additional discussions.To her credit, Pelosi issued a strong statement Tuesday, declaring, “The violent actions of people calling themselves antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted. In California, as across all of our great nation, we have deep reverence for the Constitutional right to peaceful dissent and free speech. Non-violence is fundamental to that right.”
Good for her. So why haven’t more leading Democrats done the same? After Charlottesville, the media rightly demanded that President Trump and all Republicans condemn the neo-Nazis and the KKK. So where are the calls for Democrats to condemn antifa — and the brutal public condemnation for those who fail to do so? If black-clad neo-Nazis had attacked peaceful protesters at a “No to Racism in America” march in Berkeley, politicians in Washington would be falling over themselves to express their disgust — and any who failed to do so would be vilified. But when neo-communists commit this kind of violence, they get a pass from the left.
That cannot be allowed to stand.