It is more than just his tendency to speak aggressively fast while asking listeners to make huge assumptions, his deliberately inflammatory language, or his accusing the liberals of doing the very thing he is doing at that exact same moment. That considered, I thought it might be worth visiting some examples of his past work and statements to draw out why his somewhat novel approach to political and religious punditry is both deeply problematic and designed to hide lies and misinformation. I believe it is essential for those in religious leadership positions to educate ourselves about science and combat misinformation because we have primarily cultivated and sown the field in which this discrimination is planted.īen Shapiro is coming to UNCG next week as a part of his “facts don’t care about your feelings” college tour to share his brand of polished hate speech and religious fundamentalism. It is rather informational about the factual errors that Shapiro regularly makes. I usually remove all of those before posting, but it belongs. Secondly, you will find an expletive in this piece. Some quick notes before the piece: Firstly, I am not an expert in these fields (nor is Shapiro), so I try to stay tight to the general scientific and medical consensus.
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