This student really made Ben Shapiro hunt for his own tweets in front of 600 people. Next time you want to call Ben a racist, come prepared. Watch more #onlyatYAF videos every day: / youngamericasfoundation
Genuine critical thinking to snowflakes is like warm sunshine that causes them to melt and they much prefer the more delicate world where flakes are free to be flakes.
@warren lynch not necessarily. He simply disagreed with Shapiro's comments in a respectful way. Shapiro glossed over some of his views. I say this while agreeing with Shapiro for the most part. It's simply healthy disagreement.
@@shaz2761 too bad not all marriages can be respectful. Yes it feels as if nobody in the video or in the comments is cynical and a malevolent atheist or a westboro baptist. Which are a different denomination of the original christianity.
@warren lynch yes hes smart. He doesnt scream like those other brats usually do its so typical of them! But this soyboy did indeed keep his will to be somewhat respectful besides calling shapiro racist. Hes not spoiled it seems from him. Hes obviously full of self righteousness. And thinks calling ben shapiro racist will somehow do good? Yeah nope!!!
@Blueprint Gaming You should make 10 kids. At least 2 you know if the 1st one dies 2nd for backup. Jk lol. See there i go again with my unnecessary crude jokes. At least its not one of digusting rape jokes that are made about men for some odd reason. Not sure whats with society. Nvm everything society sucks............
@@IsraelCountryCube TBF he never actually called Shapiro a racist. In fact he said he believes he isn't a racist. This was simply Clickbait in the clip title. He simply asked Shapiro to justify his comments about Arabs.
Kudos to the kid for being respectful and reasonable while debating, unlike many other that we usually see. Kudos to Ben for being honest about his mistakes in the past and regretting, something that nobody from left ever does.
Respectful aside from calling someone a racist because he disagrees with his views. That behavior has become so normalized that it's not even considered disrespectful anymore. You are expected to prove that you are not a racist.
This is why there is a divide though . When you make bold claims about the entirety of a whole group, it’s extreme . “Something nobody from the left does”? Not even a leftist but you genuinely believe nobody from the left has regretted their decisions from the past? Come on man , we are better than this
The questioner is to be commended for not attacking Shapiro and breaking down emotionally. Everyone has the right to disagree without being disagreeable.
I agree, even though being called a racist is offensive if you’re not. Not stooping down to the other persons level and actually educating them is a better way to go about this especially if you have the kind of job that Ben does. Only wish there was a little less interruption on bens and the audience part.
@@joewild4778 they had a nice discussion, a good back and forth and their still friends. And honestly nobody is gonna beat Joe about weed debates, he takes that shit personal
Breaking down what ben said: basically, the fact that some poll exists where Palestinians said something, that qualifies them to be genocided; Ben once said something that he now says he didn’t mean, and that therefore makes this kid a dumb ass for bringing it up
Breaking down what ben said: basically, the fact that some poll exists where Palestinians said something, that qualifies them to be genocided; Ben once said something that he now says he didn’t mean, and that therefore makes this kid a dumb ass for bringing it up; what am I supposed to learn from this;
Someone calls me racist, I say, QUOTE my words, exactly where I said ANYTHING racist; they always insult, evade and RUN like the cowardly fakes they are. Do the same, don't tolerate those who undermine EVERYTHING MLK, jr. taught us and those of us who FOUGHT for REAL civil rights. Modern Democrats are ONCE AGAIN the party of racism.
I LOVE watching people who REALLY think they have something get totally and unabashedly destroyed by logic and facts. They were SURE they had the smoking gun and they get wasted. It happens every time. I will never get bored of seeing it.
I wouldn't call this 'destroying'. Student brought up an article that even ben acknowledged he had revised his views and apologized for(which is very rare for ben). 19 is old enough to be able to kill someone in the military, and is probably close to the age of the questioner. Ben saying he was only 19 is not 100% exculpatory. Im not saying screw ben forever, but the kid successfully knocked him down a peg. At the very least, you can say it a wasn't one sided victory.
Breaking down what ben said: basically, the fact that some poll exists where Palestinians said something, that qualifies them to be genocided; Ben once said something that he now says he didn’t mean, and that therefore makes this kid a dumb ass for bringing it up
The kid is just a fool whose parents are paying thousands of dollars for hateful and liberals profesor to fill his mind with their hatred and ignorance.
Ben wrote a column when he was a teenager and he acknowledged it was wrong. He didn't double down on it, he stood tall and admitted he grew since that time. Way to go Ben!
It's like someone saying, when you were an alcoholic and drank half a bottle of whisky a day..... Then the person replies, yes, when I drank that much alcohol per day, noticed not one bottle has been touched for ....... years.
@@sirena7116 I understand that you were making an analogy, I just don’t know what it was supposed to mean… I just hoped you could explain it fully. The first sentence is incomplete and the second sentence, or reply, didn’t make any sense. Thanks in advance.
@@leonardshillyshally4767 it sounds like you are a undercover racist ,so how can a racist who doesn't know they are racist call someone else a racist when in a effect a racist but doesn't know they are racist but I bet everyone around knows .
@@Xykaru look up "church burns down and bibles survive." Leather is extremely flammable and so is paper. Einstein's theory of relativity states that all creations must have a creator (which he had experts test his theory) and the Big Bang theory would mean nothing blew up which makes no sense
@@bored8624 But be reasonable. Did the manner in which that guy was presenting his opinion that Ben's statements in the past were racist seem like an emotional one? This clip doesn't really show the kid getting to go into detail about it, but there's not really enough in this clip to assume it's baseless, and therefore emotional, even if you disagree with his conclusion.
As soon as he went down Palestinian people electing 3 terrorist governments he slipped into his biased route anyway Palestinians would say many Israeli governments are terrorists .. So he lost the argument there and then many Israelis in government hold the view that all Palestinians should be crushed no difference
There is always those ones that think they can do something no one has been able to do. But yet they keep trying this dude didn't have a leg to stand on.
wel dont know for your country. But over here prettymuch ever $ in education is wasted. I think someone like ben was going to visit a university in my country and have a speech or a debate or whatever. And then last second the university didnt want him anymore and they changed all kind of stuff because the didnt like his opinion and he was a guy that would win prettymuch every debate. And offcourse it was not good if a right wing politician or something would actually manage to convince some of the brainwashed left people there that they where wrong. So what they ended up doing is prettymuch make it so that he couldnt talk much at all and they let their left wing brainwashing people do the talking... I myself got kicked out of school prettymuch because i was kind of like Ben, i would win an argument with every teacher and the teacher would look bad. To the point where 1 of them wanted to hit me because i pissed him off so much as he couldnt win the argument because his arguments where shit. Prettymuch like this kid calling him a racist. I think it started with the clothing brand i had on. According to him the teacher it was a racist brand and because i wore it i was a racist. So i asked him what the history of the brand was. He said I DONT CARE, ITS A RACIST ANTI BLACK PEOPLE BRAND. No, its not, its actually founded by a black guy. And then he went on and on about all things around it. But he didnt have any fact ready, he just had his opinion ready. You dont win a debate with your opinion dumbass, you have to get your facts ready and be able to throw them out there. And then the class started to choose my side. Wel guess what? If you piss off a teacher and manage to get a whole class to agree with you you wil get in trouble....
It's great to hear a majority of students applauding Ben. I cant even begin to imagine the cancer that's crept into universities from extreme left professors.
That reminds me - gotta start talking to my kids about researching the professors of the classes they are slotted for. If the teacher is a left woke, time to go to registrar and scream for a different section.
Wait, socialism is so good that multiple generations of schoolchildren are forcibly brainwashed, from kindergarten to college, and it still doesn't WORK!
Ben, you don't understand the rules: Dems are allowed to slander and lie with impunity whereas we on the Right must not tell the truth if it hurts feelings.
F'EM and their feelings... Soft a$$ generation of people.. Free internet on smart phones has made them dumb, should have made them pay for the internet instead of giving it to them for free and we would never be dealing with this because they're too lazy to work to pay for that internet...
Those are the rules for snowflakes - snowmen hate truth because truth is like warm sunshine that causes them to melt away and that just ain't the sort of world they prefer to live in.
And the Russians thought we were a soft people back in the 1980's when we were still mostly all patriotic Americans. What does the world think with imbeciles running around screaming woke and woke generals, and woke... EVERYTHING. It's Christmas day everyday for Putin and Ping.
The last part was my favorite. He tried to dig up a mistake from someones past as many others have done lately and got completely shot down. I'll be damned if there's a soul out there that didn't make a mistake at some point in life.
Exactly. Jesus said it best, John 8:7 "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
@@truthtimetv4575 I don't know, maybe the mountain of evidence accumulated by textual critics of thousands of manuscripts could shed some light on that. I mean do you have any idea about any serious historian's view of the historical existence of Jesus? If you don't then I set my sauciness aside to tell you that the historical evidence is overwhelming that Jesus was real, and theologically the coherence argues in favor of His continued existence.
This young lad was showing his experience to date..he was respectful and compliant and Ben showed him respect also. This young lad had a lesson here and that is to look at not both but ALL aspects before formulating an opinion..especially in a public domain in front of an audience that is actually interested
Honestly, compared to others, this young man is quite respectful and actually pulled out the tweets themselves rather than paraphrasing them horribly to make Ben look worse than intended.
But I mean the clearly racist tweets did in fact happen and they happen all the time and don't get me started with the click bait he does here with his thumbnails just shady stuff like Lispy Jimmy just a complete lying scum bag without any honor.
@@michaelloggins543 Thank you. Finally someone actually smart in the comments. I agree Michael it's totally rude to call someone a racist for the simple fact that they despise people for their black skin. It actually sickens me I hate seeing a sweet innocent fellow klansmen like you and myself just minding his own business maybe burning one or two tiny little crosses in someone's yard or playing a little bit of spray your AR 15 inside a black owned house. It's ridiculous the persecution people like me and you have to go through michael. It's just downright uncooth to call us a racist and they don't even allow us to use our free speech on RU-vid anymore we should both be allowed to call the blacks what we really want 😉to. Can I get an amen. It's clear your good folk sir so I truly apologize that you had to deal with someone being rude to you and inconsiderate of your feelings I mean jeez everyone knows your a sensitive fellow and don't let them tell you you can't wear your mother's clothes we need more puss.. I mean sensitive klan... I mean man. Shame how they treat a sensitive man like you. But don't you worry I'll take care of you plenty at our next klan rally. Just don't forget to tell your beard I mean wife to cut an extra whole in the back of your robe for easy access. 😏
Man I love ben. He just says it how it is. Plain and simple, it's also super cute and comical how he said "while I look this up from the podium, in front of 600 people" ❤
When I was a student and during my twenty somethings, I thought I knew it all, until life decided to teach me. All students need to know that real education and wisdom comes from life experience and not from the classroom.
Damn lol. Also when Ben. Said the word "dumbass" and used it in such a wiseguy manner I laughed but I had to exclaim DAMN!! Because ive never heard Ben Shaprio Call someone a dumbass in a what? Respectful manner? And in style too! With the textbook definition :) hes not wrong. But he surprised me haha.
Taking on Ben Shapiro in front of hundreds of Shapiro fans is quite brave imo. Of course the crowd is gonna cheer for everything Shapiro says. I don’t think the lad got humiliated at all.
Kid was respectful though. Sure maybe he wasn't correct in what he wanted to say, but he was still well mannered and said what he wanted to say in a good way. Good job kid, keep up the respect, and take in the information you recieve. Edit: I know ultimately what it boils down to is the kid calling Ben a racist. But even stupid opinions can be exchanged through mature means. The kid didn't go up there and say "Fuck you, you racist pos", he went up there to start the discussion and wanted to get Ben's own words.
I think if he wasn't getting his ass handed to him and could have gotten some traction instead of all that stuttering he would have been typical left wing liberal.
Sorry, there is no excuse for being an idiot. Nice or not, still an idiot. And personally, he was calling him a racist without having any real proof. If that isn’t being a rude asshole, I don’t know what is.
Ben Shapiro was exposed. He ALWAYS interjects when someone is making a VERY VALID point and will derail their train of thought. Would love to see him debate someone with a microphone, outside of his little symposiums. AOC would hammerfist his ass into oblivion.
@@kevinm6885 Fairly certain if you actually watch, you'll see him give plenty of opportunity for rebuttal. The left unfortunately refuses to utilize logic when formulating their defense. Once they've expressed there fragile emotions there's very little that remains afterwards to form a cohesive intelligent response.
@@youtubesucks3393 - How is he afraid of his own opinions?... I'll pretend for a moment that I'm a simpleton so if you can put it in layman's terms for me I'd really appreciate it.
@@youtubesucks3393 You've never said anything in you LIFE that you now disagree with? What a consistent life you've led LOL. At 12 I threated to kill my brother one night when he tried to flush my transformer down the toilet when he was 6. Hopefully someone will bring that up in a debate so they can tell me how awful I am 30 years later. HAHAHA
The young man was making a sincere effort to be intellectually honest and have a meaningful and civil exchange. He caught Ben in a past bad take. Ben readily acknowledged it as a bad column he wrote at age 19. It would be interesting to see the whole exchange. So refreshing to see civil dialogue between people with opposing views.
I wouldn’t call cherry picking tweets ‘sincere effort.’ He also read them out of context not including the followups within the very same thread. Also, pulling up a bad take from over a decade ago when Ben himself has openly denounced it is worthless and serves no purpose.
whenever i think of things like people admitting past them was stupid so to speak I can't help but think of this silly red vs blue "should you get a tattoo" debate they did for comedy purposes. specifically a point made for the you should not get a tattoo side because it was funny and true "I can prove to you mathematically you should not get a tattoo. Take your current age. Subtract ten. Were you smart back then? No. You were ^$#^ing stupid. Are you smart now? no. It will just take 10 years for you to realize that and if you had gotten a tattoo ten years ago it's very unlikely you'd be happy with it now." this is especially true when you don have life experience which for most people I think isn't there enough to matter much until maybe early to mid 20s at the soonest. and even that depends on what they do with their life.
@@duydatyds Yeah, things have gotten that bad. I would still call this civil dialogue, as opposed to a typical leftist mob tactic of showing up in numbers and trying to shout down and shut down anyone they disagree with, using mindless slogan chants.
Props to that young man for mustering up the courage and engaging with Mr. Shapiro. Ben is not only razor sharp, but has a ton of experience being in front of big crowds. The young man was clearly nervous, but respectful as it should be.
The kid was really respectful and I’ll give him that for sure. Most would just start yelling but he kept his composure. He’s a person I’d like to actually talk to and see his side of things in terms of political stances and stuff
It's hard to be disrespectful when your categorically proven wrong over and over by the person who you tried to make look bad and he did so helping you get proven wrong and didn't once raise his voice
Yeah bc twisting someone's words and calling them racist and pro genocide is "really respectful" just bc he did the minimum to act like an adult. Y'all sounding like the woke squad dummies.
props to the kid that he didn't break down crying...this is the kind of dialog that we should be having not in auditoriums but on talk shows whiteout the interruptions.
@@frankjr2508 Wouldn't it be better to get wrong thoughts and ideas out of the youth so that they can actually start to learn the truth rather than pursue faulty logic?
I don't agree. He had very bad sounding quotes of Ben. I do think it's Improper for Ben to say something like "Palestinians are evil." And then to later say "Oh, I just meant the ones who who want to destroy Israel." That's like if someone said "Women deserve to be paid less." and then later said "Oh, I just meant the ones who are less qualified." It's just not acceptable. People should not make deplorable generalizations in the first place.
@@AshiStarshade What about the far worse things he has said? "Arabs like to live in open sewage" There is a reason benjy only takes on students and doesnt take on adults as he gets destroyed by adults and cant edit his failures out!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 The "adults" you speak of tend to be leftists who are unwilling to debate anyone on the right, be it Shapiro or Dinesh D'Souza or Christopher Rufo. Most progressives are cowards, which is why they collectively threaten violence against anyone they disagree with who attempts to speak on a college campus. In Feb 2021, The New York Times lied and claimed Rufo was afraid to debate advocates of Critical Race Theory. He immediately called them out and offered to debate ANYONE on the subject, and do so in the venue of The NYT choosing. The little bedwetters said nothing and pretended the offer never happened. The lefties at NYT and elsewhere write obsessively about Rufo (mostly lies) but shit their pants at the thought of ever actually hearing him out.
You got to give the kid credit for trying and at least he stayed there long enough to hear what was being said. That's more than can be said for many people on the left who will refuse to hear any argument that counters their point of view.
Ben reminds me of stand up comedians when someone from the audience tries to heckle them. You see them smile and go: "Do you have any idea how good I am at this?"
I suggest you watch Little Benny being interviewed by a real journalist... namely Andrew Neil of the BBC. Spoiler alert... his feelings were hurt by facts and he throws a temper tantrum and leaves.
@@kknox5793 Puppies are definitely better than conservatives and white supremacists. Conservatives look up and down before they cross the street. And they are usually on the wrong street.
Notice how the folks editing this clip purposefully left in at the very end that Ben Shapiro wrote a column when he was 19 which he regrets, abhors and publicly denounces? That's because YAF is honest, Ben is honest and Ben is also a human being who has made mistakes in the past... But he isn't those mistakes, he's not the same guy who makes those mistakes, he's the guy who has learned from his mistakes. I'm really glad that YAF and Ben Shapiro have no issue whatsoever in addressing this.
Why apologize? They don't apologize for anything they do... and it seems to be working for them a whole lot better than groveling and making constant apologies has worked for the GOP.
I genuinely feel badly for him, as government schools have absolutely failed him. He was never allowed the 'luxury' of an opposing viewpoint all thos years, and just told What to think. Then they sent him out in front of a bulldozer like Shapiro...
When your position is based on theory and expressed as language gymnastics, you don’t have a chance. When your position is based on truth and simple logic, the correct answer is always right at your fingertips and easy to express.
That's true.. But Ben also believes that God stopped the sun in the sky so that Joshua and the Israelites could continue to slay more Caananites so I'm not sure where 'truth and simple logic' ends and make-believe begins. Seems like his view of history is a fantasy novel.
Who started the Israel and Palestine conflict? How does the country Israel suddenly emerge in middle east in 20th century? If you research that you will realise BS is bullshiting. Not openly a racist tho.
The fact that he didn't read follow-up tweets prior to bringing the issue to Ben directly and calling him a racist says a lot more about him than the fact that he didn't have an emotional breakdown. He shouldn't be praised for something as simple as being undeniably proven wrong in an argument.
It's so cute when a fresh faced kid gets his turn at the mike and thinks to himself.....No one else has 'Owned Shapiro" Hold my sippy cup... stuttering the whole time.
Takes a lot of guts to be the guy standing out in a crowd that is likely not on your side(Most people coming to hear Shapiro talk will no doubt already agree with him). Also gives him a major opportunity to learn from the other side. I've seen worse conversations between students and Shapiro and would at least call his a "good faith" conversation. Looked like he came slightly prepared even if not completely.
@@hubbcap18 Shapiro is great but calling out ppl who only shave their bum fluff once a week and have virtually no experiences in life isn't that difficult. These kids listen to ppl 5 year's older than them and they think they are worldly experienced. They are not.
Well, to start, you don't need years of experience to be correct on any given topic. Truth, from the mouths of babes, is still truth. As for "stuttering"...? The kid was in the cross hairs, probably painfully aware that everything he was saying was likely being recorded; with that in mind, I'm surprised he didn't pull up stakes the when everyone kept applauding (maybe he was getting extra credit?). Ben didn't bully this kid, let me be clear, but Ben's audience certainly didn't go out of their way to be impartial. Ben has every right to defend his reputation, but his audience didn't have to treat a debate like a game of sportsball. Given that Ben has (if memory serves) a history of being on the Harvard debate team (I might be thinking of Cruz, actually) it was kind of like watching a paraplegic get bodied by Hulk Hogan.
@@wanderer1955 only cause of the power dichotomy. He never lets anyone speak a full sentence. Soon as you call him out, like this kid tried to do, he disavows his own statements as though that makes it ok. Which sure, we should all be allowed to grow but if you said it then you said it. And it’s not a debate if you interrupt the other speaker every other syllable. His tactics are to obliterate his opponent’s confidence, not their arguments. That’s ‘definitionally’ a bully. Shapiro isn’t an intellectual. He regurgitates propaganda. He has no class. And his arguments bely his lack of real world business experience. Or at least his understanding if economics in practice rather than theory. He’s all textbook. Psst.
Kid had some talking points he came prepared with (he even read his book). He wasn't there to fight like a lot of others. More people like him will probably make the left a lot better and open to discussion.
He can be as prepared or unprepared as he wants this is an echo chamber there was no discussion just Ben waiting for his time to interject or the audience to clap over the guy in glasses can have a rebuttal.
You think the left is antagonistic and angry all the time? Y'all wear shirts that say "come and take it"- implying that if someone does try and take your sweet offensive machine that you will shoot them. Is that worse than verbally fighting?
Ben makes himself look foolish constantly, just look at a few weeks ago on bill’s show. The interview with the British conservative. He is not intelligent at all.
We all thought we were smart when we were 19 and ignorant...You don't know you're ignorant until you learn enough to know that you didn't know something before you learned it.
