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02 Apr 2020, 7:00 pm


https://youtu.be/FE9OuerKwSo



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03 Apr 2020, 4:01 pm

Should I pretend to be shocked that Shapiro is a neo-fascist? :lol:


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03 Apr 2020, 5:35 pm

Watched him react to the first question and wasn’t about to sit through a whole hour and twenty minutes of that. So I found the original and watch that instead.

I don’t think that video really supports “Shapiro is a neo-fascist”. It supports “Shapiro is a religious conservative who is sceptical of authority and supports the free market”. He wants to ban abortion and is sympathetic to banning pornography, but doesn’t share the fascist’s hatred of other cultures, races and religions.

Shapiro correctly identifies that the test is pretty crap but thinks this is because it “it wants to make conservatives look bad”. I’d argue that it’s actually trying to nudge people towards the bottom left corner. It then places all mainstream politics in the top right corner and tells people that they should vote for their local Green Party.

God is Shapiro annoying to listen to. If he hadn’t fallen for religion then I think he’d be a real force for good, but he makes me seem intellectually humble :lol:



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03 Apr 2020, 5:50 pm

The_Walrus wrote:
Watched him react to the first question and wasn’t about to sit through a whole hour and twenty minutes of that. So I found the original and watch that instead.

I don’t think that video really supports “Shapiro is a neo-fascist”. It supports “Shapiro is a religious conservative who is sceptical of authority and supports the free market”. He wants to ban abortion and is sympathetic to banning pornography, but doesn’t share the fascist’s hatred of other cultures, races and religions.

Shapiro correctly identifies that the test is pretty crap but thinks this is because it “it wants to make conservatives look bad”. I’d argue that it’s actually trying to nudge people towards the bottom left corner. It then places all mainstream politics in the top right corner and tells people that they should vote for their local Green Party.

God is Shapiro annoying to listen to. If he hadn’t fallen for religion then I think he’d be a real force for good, but he makes me seem intellectually humble :lol:



Neo-fascist might be too specific, but he's certainly an authoritarian nationalist. I think it would be a stretch to claim he is genuinely skeptical of authority, he might be skeptical of authority when it suits his ideological preferences but the two aren't the same.


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