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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 198 - Laughing Our Way To Doom

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Trump and Clinton both bomb at the Al Smith Dinner, Laura Ingraham goes nuts, and a second mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The left censorship of conservatives has now kicked into high gear. Google has placed at least 21 videos from Prager University, an educational nonprofit designed to tell young people about conservative issues of interest in restricted mode, preventing young people from seeing them. Google admitted that they, quote, take into consideration what the intent of the video is, meaning they're happy to shut down anyone who presents political

0:20.9

positions they just don't like. Meanwhile, Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley investment guru,

0:25.7

who spoke at the RNC, has faced serious backlash, calls to oust him from the board of

0:29.9

Facebook have grown over the past few weeks. The New York Times reported just yesterday,

0:33.3

quote, the news last week that Mr. Thiel was giving $1.25 million to the Republicans' campaign

0:38.4

is provoking outrage. And tech executives who work with the billionaire investors are

0:42.9

being forced to explain why they plan to continue to do business with him, unquote.

0:48.0

To his credit, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who's a hardcore Democrat,

0:51.2

defended Thiel. He said, we care deeply about diversity. That's easy to say when it means standing up for ideas you agree with. It's a lot harder when it means standing up for the rights of people with different viewpoints to say what they care about. That's even more important. But that's what prominent leftists will say publicly. How many of them will continue to do business with Thiel without external pressure forcing them to do so. How many of them will quietly kill business

1:11.1

deals? How many of them will shut Thiel out, making him an outsider in his own industry?

1:15.5

Leftists have been doing this for years. That's how Mozilla Firefox CEO, Brendan Aish,

1:19.9

ended up ousted over supporting traditional marriage. It's why Democratic mayors from Boston to

1:24.5

Chicago threatened Chick-fil-A for its ownership support of traditional

1:28.2

marriage. It's why Hollywood Republicans get blacklisted for even the mildest form of conservatism.

1:33.4

It's why speakers like me get banned from college campuses. The left is fascistic in their

1:37.3

approach to interpersonal relations. It's not enough to disagree with somebody. That person

1:41.5

must be excised from polite society. So that means the right has to

1:45.0

fight back. There are two ways you can do that. First, you can give to organizations like Prager U, which is a really

1:49.4

great place that have been victimized by the left. Second, turnabout is fair play. Leftists must feel the

1:55.0

pain of mutually assured destruction. The second tactic is something Republicans are always loath to do,

2:00.4

since it's something with which we kind of disagree.

2:02.4

But if the left isn't made to understand that a polite society relies on a basic agreement between all of the parties not to destroy one another based on political differences, they'll continue to destroy the right while we continue to pay them to do so.

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