As usual, someone took to Twitter with their wackadoo alt-left ideas, insisting that transwomen are real woman — like the ones who are born the gender. Ben Shapiro was having none of that!
https://twitter.com/dirak_/status/929479655089942529
Prompting Shapiro to reply, he just couldn’t resist.
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Nopehttps://t.co/TV9Zy0fkBu— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
Then in a now-deleted tweet, Elizabeth Nolan Brown the editor for Reason magazine chimed in, against Ben:
People protesting Shapiro had the wrong idea. This dude needs his smug mug punched, repeatedly https://t.co/iVxWpoCQtl
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) November 20, 2017
Shapiro, ever so quick with witty comebacks, claps back:
It's weird that an associate editor at libertarian magazine @reason thinks physical violence against dissenters is awesome now. Not very libertarian. https://t.co/RbLXzLisnR
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
And thankfully, many Twitter conservatives backed his play:
Not just that, but the threat is made to discourage you from speaking the truth. Scary. https://t.co/ybbNoradcw
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 20, 2017
Or you could try defeating him in debate, which is what adults do.
— I Believe in Nashville (@genethelawyer) November 20, 2017
How dare someone say something manifestly true and not be beaten for it because you don't like it.
I keep warning people about making new rules and they just won't listen.@benshapiro— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 20, 2017
Expert on crime and civil liberties advocates crime against someone for exercising his civil liberties. https://t.co/e6dQURSMah
— Razor (@hale_razor) November 20, 2017
Don't worry, @ENBrown. Calling on people to punch @benshapiro in the face directly violates Twitter's policy against inciting targeted violence, but it doesn't violate the SPIRIT of the policy; which is precisely to malign easy targets on the Right.
But you knew that. pic.twitter.com/1OvJCuUr4r
— Stephen Herreid (@StephenHerreid) November 20, 2017
a punch to the face is lethal force, multiple punches even more dangerous. you can get shot doing that sort of thing. do you ever think this shit through before you spew it?
— red seewun (@redc1c4) November 20, 2017
Shapiro has kept it no secret how he feels about the movement, often calling them “mentally ill”, a stance that has never received love from anyone Liberal, Democrat, or Left. This is simply an extension of that.
As reported by Hank Berrien for The Daily Wire:
Speaking at Ferris State University, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro took on transgenderism and pro-abortion advocates in the Q&A after the speech, crushing their arguments in the process. The exchange is below, followed by the video:
Young woman: How do you say that some people don’t have real privilege when you basically just said that trans people aren’t valid, they’re not a thing, they’re just boys pretending to be girls or girls pretending to be boys? Gender is a completely different thing.
Shapiro: No. Gender is not disconnected from sex. So –
Young woman: It’s not completely disconnected, but it’s still a cultural thing, it’s still a problem in society, it’s still in the mind.
Shapiro: No, it is not in the mind, okay. You’re not a man if you think you’re a man. I didn’t say “pretending,” or if I did, I shouldn’t have said “pretending,” let me amend –
Young woman: You said, “playing.”
Shapiro: I said, “A boy who thinks he’s a girl.” That’s the usual phraseology I use; not “playing.” I usually say, “A boy who thinks he’s a girl” or “a girl who thinks she’s a boy.,” which is technically what we’re talking about here. As far as the actual psychological issues at play, it used to be called gender identity disorder; now they call it gender dysphoria. The idea that sex or gender is malleable is not true. I’m not denying your humanity if you are a transgender person; I am saying that you are not the sex which you claim to be. You’re still a human being, and you’re a human being with an issue then I wish you Godspeed in dealing with it in any whatever way you see fit, but if you’re going to dictate to me that I’m supposed to pretend, I’m supposed to pretend that men are women and women are men, no. My answer is no. I’m not going to- I’m not going to modify basic biology because it threatens your subjective sense of what you are.
Young woman: Okay, but you’re still saying that these kids should like, not be accepted because they don’t really fit in either place? They can’t just like—
Shapiro: I’m saying that the Boy Scouts have a standard. You must be a biological boy to be a Boy Scout. You have to be a boy to be a Boy Scout.
Young woman: Where is that written, though?
Shapiro: In the name, “Boy Scouts.” Because for all of human history, boy meant boy and girl meant girl. Boy did not mean girl.