Posted by cccp1014 on 11/29/2017 3:12:00 PM (view original):
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/gist/2016/11/ben_shapiro_on_steve_bannon_the_alt_right_and_why_the_left_needs_to_turn.html
He quit partly because of this.
And he hates the Alt Right as much as I do.
Target of anti-Semitism
In May 2016 New York Magazine reported: "Shapiro...has increasingly found himself targeted by the so-called alt-right movement, a loose conglomeration of online personalities—many if not most of them anonymous—currently devoted to tweeting and posting their support for Donald Trump and attacking those who disagree, often in racist and anti-Semitic ways. They have been denigrating Shapiro as a '*****,' a 'cuck,' and — inevitably, given the nature of this movement — a 'Jew' and a '****.'"[49]
In an article in National Review, Shapiro wrote: "I've experienced more pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism since coming out against Trump's candidacy than at any other time in my political career. Trump supporters have threatened me and other Jews who hold my viewpoint. They've blown up my e-mail inbox with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They greeted the birth of my second child by calling for me, my wife, and two children to be thrown into a gas chamber."[50]
An article in The Washington Post quoted an Anti-Defamation League report that "focused in particular on the anti-Semitic tweets aimed at journalists, frequently those whose writing about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has displeased a large contingent of Twitter users who band together to attack these journalists online. The words most commonly found in the bios of the people who post these anti-Semitic attacks? 'Trump,' 'nationalist,' 'conservative,' 'American' and 'white'...The target of the most anti-Semitic tweets, by far, was Ben Shapiro, a conservative writer who formerly worked for Breitbart and who does not support Trump."[51] Shapiro stated "I'm honored because being targeted by mouth-breathing idiots is a compliment—you know you're doing something right if people who tweet pictures of gas chambers on the day of your child's birth find you unacceptable as a human being."[52] He also said: "As the fellow who receives hook-nosed Jew memes more than any other journalist on the planet, I don't believe that people ought to be suspended or banned from Twitter or Facebook for posting vile garbage, so long as it isn't openly advocating violence. I make a habit of retweeting these pieces of human feces in order to mock their stupidity and to expose the fact that people like this exist."[52]
Hooked-Nose Jew Memes would be a cool band name.