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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 108 - Here's My Problem With 'Hamilton'

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Trump crushes the competition in New York, the establishment prepares to cave, and why Ben dislikes 'Hamilton' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The rules of bigotry, according to the left, they're constantly shifting beautiful kaleidoscope of stupid crap. This week, we learned that if you don't want your small daughter peeing next to a giant man who thinks he's a woman, you're a bigot. If you're a woman who's slightly uncomfortable with a man who thinks he is a woman, whipping out his penis to urinate in front of you, you're also a bigot. If you're a religious person

0:20.9

who doesn't want to participate in an activity you consider sinful, you're also a bigot. Now, on the other hand, if you're a man who thinks you're a woman and you want to force a small girl to pee next to you, you are fighting for freedom. If you're a large man who thinks he's a woman and you want to be one of the girls and Hulk right down onto the Macy's ladies' room,

0:38.5

you are a hero.

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And if you are a gay man and you want to be one of the girls and Hulk right down onto the

0:37.5

Macy's ladies room, you are a hero. And if you are a gay man and you want to force a religious person to serve you, you are also a hero. Now, if all of this seems slightly weird, that's because it is. First of all, it's logically incoherent. The left insists that a man who thinks he is a woman must be treated as one, even if his biology says he's a dude.

0:56.0

However, if a man believes he's a man, he can't discuss vital issues of national import

1:00.7

like abortion because he lacks the vital prerequisite, a womb. Men cannot understand women.

1:05.6

The logic runs unless they are women. But men cannot be women, of course, except in the

1:09.6

fevered imaginations of crazy people on the left. And even the left doesn't really believe this. Leftists simultaneously want to enshrine unchangeable sexual differences, even though according to them, men and womenly can shift places all the time. And then they want to deny that the differences exist in the first place. So if you're talking about abortion, men and women are inherently different, can't change it. If you're talking about Caitlin Jenner having a twig and berries, Caitlin Jenner's still a woman. This is nonsense, you say. Shut up, they say. In the end, leftists don't have to be coherent. They just have to control the government gun. Now, the baseline definition of freedom in Western civilization has been this. You don't get to force me to serve you, and you don't get to force me to think the way you want me to think. As follows, you cannot force me to think that you are a woman if you are a biological man. You can't force me to spend my taxpayer dollars to pretend along with your mental illness. You can't force me to run my business as you see fit because I

2:01.8

don't have a duty to you. The left doesn't believe in freedom except the freedom to destroy the

2:06.4

right. So leftists believe Bruce Springsteen has an absolute right to pick the people for whom he

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performs in North Carolina, but bakers in North Carolina can't pick the people to whom they cater

2:16.0

if they're same-sex couples.

2:27.0

The left believes the government must compel higher pay rates for women, but government should compel men to be treated as women based on their subjective feelings on the subject.

2:32.8

This magical kaleidoscope of morality never stops shifting, but in the end there's only one moral that counts. The left's ultimate insistence on use of government force to compel that we all obey their

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kaleidoscopic morality. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

2:41.5

Tend to demonize people because they don't care about your feelings.

2:47.5

So, a lot breaking in the news.

2:50.0

Alexander Hamilton remains on the $10 bill. Apparently Andrew Jackson is off the 20, and he's been replaced with Harriet Tubman. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the New York primaries at great length, length that will make my producers want to bash their head against the wall. We'll talk about all of that. But first, we have to say hello to our friends at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College, a great institution, and an institution, it's not just for your kid. It's not just you should send your kid to Hillsdale. If you are in a different college or you are or you're a teenager or you're a kid or you're an adult and you just want to learn more about the Constitution, go to Hillsdale.edu slash Ben. Right now, they have a course there called Presidency and the Constitution. It talks about the fact that the presidency is not, in fact, a monarchy. It's not the seat of ultimate power in the United States. There are actual divisions of power and the Constitution lays those forth. Hillsdale teaches you how those works. Hillsdale.edu slash Ben for the free course. You go there, you register. They send it right to your inbox. Very cool. And they have a lot of other courses you'll want to

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check out as well. It's hillsdale.edu slash Ben. Okay. So Donald Trump ends up the big winner

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last night, as we thought would happen because New Yorkers, being the tough-minded, intelligent

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people they are, had to vote for their own

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