Ben Shapiro STRUGGLES Defending Thomas's Nazi-Obsessed Patron

[@amberwilliams8240]

As a black person, I would feel SO uncomfortable if I walked into someone's home and they had Nazi memorabilia on display. The fact that Clarence Thomas knows this and still hangs out with this guy tells me everything I need to know about Clarence Thomas.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

He not only drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago, he bought shares in Kool-Aid Incorporated.

[@clasgorman5804]

Asa a white person, I’d feel pretty fucking uncomfortable too.

[@majuli8420]

As a German, I would be foaming with anger. These people are sick.

[@JWrenison]

As an American of German descent, I would turn around walk right back out.

[@kappadarwin9476]

Yeah, Clarence knew about this stuff and still decided to go there. This guy is just such a shame I don't know what else to say. Clarence knows full well how bad this makes him look.

[@soulknife20]

I remember an episode of Justified where a guy was buying Hitler paintings and everyone thought he was a Nazi lover. Turns out he was burning the paintings and keeping them as ashes as a reminder of the atrocities committed. Unfortunately, Harlan Crow is not that guy.

[@alicewright4322]

even charlie in always sunny knows to burn the hitler painting

[@grouchomarxist666]

Ever see the brief but hysterical BBC production Absolute Power? One of the better episodes included Nazis engaging Prentiss-McCabe to improve their PR. "You can't spin the Holocaust."

[@letsomethingshine]

@@alicewright4322 Didn't you hear though? Now that the Mario movie did well, its status as pro or anti-woke has landed clearly on anti-woke. Charlie is anti-woke by association... LOL

[@jasonbarton6087]

Man, that's a good one ; Gotta remember the mechanics of your set-up/punch-line so I can wield it in the future ;

[@alabamaman5994]

Easy. Bernie Sanders laterally signed the checks that fund the Azov Battalion. Game over.

[@4primus]

I really need to get a Reagan portrait to hang in my home so I can always remember the horrors of trickle down economics

[@DerAptrgangr]

That's literally the only way. If you don't do that right now, then you are destroying history. Brb, gonna go vote republican real quick. 😜😂

[@wintersmill4853]

its still trickle down, plus bailouts now, just keeps getting better.

[@bobhookstratten9567]

All the dudes who watch porn can tell Josh Hawley that they only do it cause they hate out-of-wedlock, unrestrained sex so much.

[@blktarockstar818]

Just look at your paycheck

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

Isn't your pay stub sufficient?

[@outlawJosieFox]

This is the ultimate "I have a black friend...."

[@18skeltor]

"Collecting these items is not hatred- it's reverence. You want something that's close to you, that has a shading of the power that this regime exuded, and that's when you buy memorabilia like this" Spot on, Emma.

[@Quadrophiniac]

Honestly, it blows my mind that anybody watches Ben Shapiro unironically. How can anybody sit and listen to that man for more than 5 minutes. That alone is a feat worthy of a world record

[@andrew_owens7680]

Chapo Traphouse did an episode on his novel. I thought I would split my sides laughing.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

​@@andrew_owens7680 I'm going to have to look for that episode because there's no way on Earth that I would ever actually buy anything that has Ben's name on it, not even for "memorabilia" of a really disgusting person.

[@BoboMcBooboy]

Legit around 3:40 in, I think this is the very first time Ben Shapiro is actually reading this article before commenting on it, and then chuckles, and I think it's because he realized live on air everything he said the previous 3:39 was actually completely bullshit, and I think the chuckle he gave like 10 seconds later was a bit of an internal crisis between selling out to his republican mega donors who have NO problem with this in any context, and his Jewish fundamentalism thats screaming inside to hate everything about this, but he can't say it and "be a lefty" so he's stuck... And then ends the segment shortly after lmfao😂😂

[@BoboMcBooboy]

Well, to be fair, they end the video on majority reports end, so idk how much longer he spent on this clip to be fair to the guy, but he seemed about done lol😅

[@TreeFiddehSeven]

@@andrew_owens7680 Kendrick Malone lmfao

[@Mas_Tun]

"I want to remember the horrors of the Nazi regime" "So did you put up some pics of Auschwitz, emaciated prisoners, or a pile of children's shoes?" "Nah, here are some Nazi doilies. Aren't they pertty? Here's my signed copy of Mein Kampf. How lucky was that owner to get it signed by the author?!" Bruh

[@rightrightrightuhhuhuhhuh6516]

"Hitler drank from this chalice I paid 400k for! You can almost taste his acidic love spittle...errrr...which should remind any uh, patriot or something of real, um, democracy or something... AND ITS IN THE ORIGINAL CASE!"

[@slapster69]

There’s literally holocaust museums. And keistered watches passed down generations.

[@kreskinkun]

Right Ben, because it's hard to imagine someone like, say, Nick Fuentes finding a friendship with Kanye West advantageous.

[@billyconnelly3568]

Yep and Shapiro knows Nick very well. Nick attempted a coup against Shapiro. He wanted to be the straight nazi no chaser Ben Shapiro and hasn't succeeded as much as he hoped

[@mayayamato7351]

ironic considering Fuentes is exactly the kind of person even Ben admitted was a nazi who he hated.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

My thought exactly

[@DecimatorPrime]

Most on-the-nose response award

[@jochenkraus7016]

From their point of view: Why not, if you think the relationship is useful? There aren't many Supreme Court judges and to have a majority for your goals, you can't have too many be against you. And then there's still "the enemy of my enemy...".

[@tubaishansol]

He isn't buying the friendship of Thomas, he is buying the VOTE.

[@samircruz2093]

Period.

[@annzielinski1610]

And Thomas is eager to sell.

[@whypothetical]

Wait, so holding onto memorabilia from Nazis teaches kids not to be Nazis but teaching kids about the history and horrors of racism doesn't teach them not to be racist? Ben wants it both ways.

[@createdbybrian]

We should all send various "woke" memorabilia to Ben Shapiro so he can display the things he hates, so he doesn't forget that he hates them....

[@johnnyrotten1666]

Send him portraits of AOC, Ilhan Omar, and drag queens.

[@easyenetwork2023]

Shapiro is Jewish and defends Crow it seems.

[@matthewharrington9723]

​@@easyenetwork2023 Shapiro is a conservative and defends other conservatives even when they're awful human beings.

[@nullverba856]

To be consistent, "woke" would have to be vanquished by conservatism *_before_* the memorabilia can be excused, right?

[@brianreynosa6763]

Y’all are so weird 😂 I am not a nazi nor do I support any nazis but if somebody offered me nazi memorabilia I would definitely take it that’s part of history!!! Roman memorabilia some would say when Julius Caesar slaughtered the Celtics it was basically the Celtics holocaust but of course I would take anything of that period and put it in display too but you guys are taking it way out of context to attack conservatives and make them seem like nazi sympathizers drop a like if you agree :)

[@daydreamerz]

Literally NO ONE builds a fabulously expensive shrine in their home to constantly think about something they despise. He really thinks people are stupid.

[@Silverfirefly1]

He knows people are stupid, you know it too. People are really stupid. Just tell them what they want to hear and you're good to go. That's just the average of course - 50% of people are even worse than that.

[@vxicepickxv]

I kind of believe that Jordan Peterson does, but then again, it's Jordan Peterson.

[@markg1727]

Plenty of people do, people are weird, Michael Jackson found Nazi shit fascinating too

[@choccolocco]

@@markg1727 He also self hated…. So there’s that…

[@markg1727]

@@choccolocco I don’t believe that’s in evidence, he had body dysmphoria but that’s different.

[@purewhiteloverbizarrejelly]

“I wake up every day and look at my Nazi linen and other collectible memorabilia that I’ve spent upwards of a million dollars to remind myself how much I hate them”. Makes perfect sense if you also enjoy the smell of leaded gasoline

[@RD-zx6py]

*taste of leaded gasoline.

[@j0j0dartiste21]

​@@RD-zx6py it's the perfect dip for lead paint chips 🤤

[@dirkthewrench]

@@j0j0dartiste21 in their gas filled houses

[@niknak-p6g]

ts so sad that, this is all the 'evidence' u need to call someone a nazi sympathizer. Maybe do a little research first. Crow also owns original paintings by Adolf Hitler, Claude Monet, Rembrandt Peale, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower. Crow's private library contains a collection of 8,500 books and manuscripts including historical documents from Juan Ponce de León, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, George Washington, Robert E. Lee, and all the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Additional items include Napoleon's writing desk and the Duke of Wellington's sword from 1815. Even if all his stuff was from the third reich, that doesn't mean u are a nazi .Could be the opposite. The person who has the largest collection of nazi items in the world, collected them to always be able to show holocaust deniers the physical evidence. And lastly, the nazi's almost killed his mother. His mother, Margaret Crow, survived the sinking of the SS Athenia, the first British ship sunk by Nazi Germany. So do u support people who try to kill your family.

[@Pospolite-Ruszenie]

Um, he also has communist statues. So is he also a communist?

[@joryferrell7244]

A garden? He displays them in a garden? Gardens are meant to be a place to relax. Who displays shit that evokes hate and fear in a place meant for relaxation?

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

“We have been family friends for 25 years.” Well Thomas has been in the court for 30. SOooooo! He became close family friends AFTER he’d been a Justice for a while!

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

Collecting and displaying things like Nazi memorabilia, or confederate statues, without having them in a contextually appropriate place, like a museum, isn't "remembering", it's celebrating.

[@ZombieInc661]

yes, the "preserve history" argument is stupid, you want to learn about history read a book or for these folks look at a picture

[@andrew_owens7680]

@@ZombieInc661 Or maybe you could have a signed copy of Churchill's autobiography.

[@All-due-respect-I-disagree]

This is Churchhill’s bathtub

[@All-due-respect-I-disagree]

This is Churchhill’s bathtub

[@SanFranFan30]

Ben's argument seems to be that a Jewish person like myself should keep around Nazi memorabilia so we know our history but that is just supremely fucked.

[@diablo55]

“Say the line, Bart!” “I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!”

[@wilcee238]

Yaaaaaay!

[@thomasrevere7916]

I love the Simpsons reference. "I didn't do it." ~Bart

[@diablo55]

@@thomasrevere7916 thanks!

[@karld884]

Wonder if Clarence ever asked Harlon if there's a room that resembles the cargo room of a slave ship. I imagine it's decorated with plank beds, chains and whips. You know, to remember the horror...

[@eeyre1264]

If Ben’s theory is correct, we would all own Kid Rock’s and Ted Nugent’s entire catalogues?

[@karlheven8328]

Those people were hardly significant in human history. Such a bad argument

[@ronny-lb1cr]

​@@karlheven8328 Significant enough to wipe 1000 @ssees with their catalogues

[@fluxonite]

LoL!!! 😂

[@Phoenixx42]

Ben is that neighbor that rats you out to the gestapo in 1938 Germany.

[@choccolocco]

100% Jewish neighbor.

[@susieq1170]

Ain't that the truth!

[@rsr789]

Correct. And then he and his family are gassed in a concentration camp anyways, cuz that's how cruel AND stupid he is.

[@williammartinez840]

For sure

[@dontcensormebro3217]

He would rat you out during the Weimar Republic?

[@trailerparkproduction3819]

You don’t randomly keep a randomly signed mein kampf for “memorabilia”.

[@raymondleggs5508]

Obviously a hitler fanboy, only a fan of an author has a signed copy

[@jessicadavis3989]

I said the exact same thing. He keeps on his night stand like trump!

[@HannibalOrJustRex]

It's not something someone stumbles across at an antique shop. Unless it's a disgusting family heirloom, he had to have gone through quite a bit of effort in seeking that out.

[@07Flash11MRC]

Whoever owns a copy of that should donate it to a museum as a reminder of the atrocities committed. That's the only place it belongs.

[@Aarenby]

Precisely- you don't treasure that unless you love the author

[@shenanitims4006]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I spend my money and fill my home with things I HATE. I know when I come home after a hard day at work that I want to be immediately confronted with things I find horrendous. “Tough day at work honey, could you PLEASE make me my least favorite dish?”

[@Usagi393]

“Honey, can you please set up my recording of Jar Jar Binks on loop for the next 7 hours? I need to honor how terrible the actor Ahmed Best was treated for that role.”

[@TheRedRaccoonDog]

​@Usagi393 "In the meantime, I'll be watching The Neverending Story 3. Really need to respect what a disaster that film was."

[@kingbeef66]

Really shows that Ben is hesitant to condemn Nazis when they benefit his movement and party.

[@therealivydawg]

He must be one of those Jews for Hitler.

[@choccolocco]

Never forget there there were actual Jewish ppl who were nazis…

[@annecohen8927]

Ben's sick obsession. He now has a sick obsession with Israel.

[@seanelsenbroek7530]

Usually when people don’t like things, they don’t collect memorabilia. That’s more a trait of an enthusiast

[@scotty9776]

I've never seen Ben struggle so much explaining the evil he agrees with

[@karlheven8328]

How is that evil? 😂 It‘s incredibly dumb to assume someone is a Nazi just because he is a collector of propagandistic items… For people fascinated by history and who love to have them in their house this is just a nice thing to have. Can‘t you just accept that people have different reasons for showcasing that and having such a collection? This is hardly celebrating Hitler when he has the statues of his enemies standing next to him…

[@SemKeemink]

​@@karlheven8328couldn't agree more. Jordan Peterson used to have communist paintings in his house. Not because he was a commie. On the contrary. To remind him of the horrors that could manifest from ideological fantasies.

[@karlheven8328]

@@SemKeemink Exactly, i even made this point in another comment☺️

[@sndspderbytes]

He had Stalin's paintings or actual paintings by famous painters that were Russian and pro communist. Having Hitler's paintings is much different than having other paintings by other artists. Assuming Peterson actually had paintings . I bet Peterson had actual communist propaganda posters which is different than having Stalin's own paintings he signed.

[@ronny-lb1cr]

​@@karlheven8328☝🏿 No he's not a Nazi. In his daydreams he's General von Schnitzelblitz and the Führer's darling😘

[@draxthemsklonst]

I'm surprised Alex Jones hasn't brought up Thomas going to Bohemian Grove.

[@JayTea345]

Alex always ignores things that are inconvenient for his narratives. Maybe twenty years ago when he was pretending to be above the left/right paradigm, but now he's a total conservative shill.

[@billyconnelly3568]

The right-wing conspiracy theory people have now all merged with the right-wing of the Republican Party in a wannabe fascist coalition and while the former group will still occasionally talk about neoconservatives, they never name the ones they're now in coalition with.

[@majuli8420]

Odd, huh.

[@HocusPocus6969]

And he’s never mentioned Dennis Hastert even once.

[@samiamrg7]

Nah, those guys aren’t “globalists.” “Globalists” aren’t allowed at Harlan’s club. All the “Globalists” go to Davos and only Davos, no other secret clubs and retreats like Mar A Lago that we don’t have footage of to use to scare the audience. /s/s/s/s

[@GBGB000]

"I'm not a racist - I have a black friend! Yeah, don't mind that giant bust of Hitler over there. Black friend trumps Hitler bust."

[@Mir_Aakib]

Keeping a signed mein Kampf in your home is like keeping a serial killer's revenge letter mounted on your living room wall.

[@tommydevine9993]

I own that original Ed Gein table lamp because I'm a fan of the history of the piece...

[@rightrightrightuhhuhuhhuh6516]

Like the suit made out of dead girls in Silence of the Lambs signed by the propmaster at Universal

[@andreah6379]

🎯

[@berjanbeen7188]

I think just owning a signed copy of Mein Kampf as part of a historic book collection is still justifiable. It's the other, apparently exclusively, Nazi objects that are also there that make it sus.

[@carlmarks8170]

Millions and millions of people have a fascination with serial killers and like to read about them while others find it sickening & morbid. There are reams of books on the subject.. Scores of movies & TV shows which are dedicated to serial killers. It's a whole industry unto itself. That doesn't mean people who like that shit are secret sympathizers of serial killers. It always amazes me how deeply intolerant many "social progressives" are. The very people who preach tolerance, compassion, inclusivity, blah, blah, blah... But they are the first to get out their pitchforks and flaming tiki torches and form an angry mob against anyone who veers outside the parameters of what they agree with and doesn't march in lockstep with them on every "woke" principle & idea. This is why so many people hate you.

[@AbiogenesisGaming]

Shapiro is 100% correct. That's why every true music-loving person has posters and memorabilia of Everclear all over their homes. It's not because they are fans of Everclear. It's because they want to make sure that people who visit their homes are able to understand all of the awful music that we had to overcome in order to get where we are today.

[@a.j.7264]

Nice!😂

[@kylejones8289]

So one of Ben Shapiro's arguments is unironically that Harlan Crow can't be racist because he has a black friend? This is beyond parody at this point.

[@andrew_owens7680]

The OLD "Some of my best friends are..." argument.

[@lisalisa4182]

Just think, we wouldn't know any of this stuff if Ginni Thomas hadn't started waving her red hat.😅

[@MarlenasFae]

Bean Shabipo is struggling hard to sell this. He's failing, but he's trying.

[@alexdasliebe5391]

Shabeebo knows no shame Does he embody it? Yes!

[@Kite403]

His sugar daddy money must be really *really* good if he's willing to defend someone who's idols would have tossed him in the gas chambers 80+ years ago

[@ananousous]

He is having trouble doing the show

[@Hiro.the.God.]

At least he doesn’t stutter and mumble when he’s lying like Taibi. Shapiro still talks 1000 miles per hour no matter what poop is coming out of his mouth 😂

[@mirgato9704]

​@@john-paulhunt❤

[@remp1040]

Thanks to Ben Shapiro I now finally realize that we kept confederate statues to remember what we hate. Nothing whatsoever to do with saving and protecting memorabilia from a group that stood for horrible things.

[@barbiedahl]

No more honor System. Term limits. Mandatory retirement age. Emeritus status. Ethical standards. Financial disclosure. Rotation of Justices. Inspector General of the Supreme Court. 13 justices to oversee 13 Circuit Courts. (Actually, with population growth and demographic changes we now need 15 circuits with 15 justices to oversee them.) AND remove the five perjurers. Reform the Supreme Court now!

[@nullverba856]

YES! PREACH ON!

[@maybemablemaples2144]

💯

[@seaoftranquility7228]

I’ve got David Bowie posters all over my house, I own all his records and my prize possession is a signed copy of the first pressing of Ziggy Stardust. God I hate that guy.

[@eddiethedestroyer]

To me, the name "Harlan Crow" still sounds like a comic book villain.

[@kevinskiles2033]

His brother's name is Trammel Crow. He's being investigated for sex trafficking.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

🤷🏻‍♀️ Sounds like a Scooby Doo villain to me.

[@NoThatRyan]

​@@greeneyedlady5580I was going to say Confederate soldier or plantation owner.

[@Miafunfactory]

DC universe too.. Not Marvel... Strait outta ARKHAM!

[@tommydevine9993]

100% a DC comics villain that lives in Gotham City

[@cantgoslow]

A big reach for a tiny man- Ben Shapiro! I myself always keep mementos of all the hurt and hardship I’ve overcome- signed original letters from exes dumping me, beautifully lit and mounted cane that my maths teacher beat me and my cohorts with. It fills me with self love every time I see them and I love sharing the the experience with my friends- especially the friends I definitely haven’t bought for the convenience of my agenda❤

[@MichaelTorres-b2v]

Glenn Greenwald unwittingly admitted what everyone knows. His statement was basically, “This guy can’t be a Nazi because he hates Trump.” Just think about the other side of that coin.

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

alternative title: ben shapiro defends nassi super fan imagine being so soulless that you really try to defend someone collecting merch from the party that ashed your own grandparents during the holocaust

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

@@jenniferhunter4074 ok this is too perfect holy smokes thats incredible what kinda-

[@jenniferhunter4074]

@@tsarzamancorpdna you cannot make this shit up. This is why we need to read our history books without conservatives meddling and white washing it. It's messy, chaotic, confusing and sometimes, it's just WTF!!!! did I just read?

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

@@tsarzamancorpdna Also: Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten

[@imaginethat3026]

This comment deserves more likes

[@matttran7161]

Dude he wilts when asked if his family was affected. They most likely survived by selling others out.

[@michaele6041]

In the movie ‘DJango’, Calvin Candie had Stephan, Harlen Crow has Clarence Thomas.🤷‍♂️

[@wilcee238]

🤣

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

factsssss

[@Pete_xp]

Thought of Django aswell

[@tommydevine9993]

​@Matt I don't know... Don't you think that's a little defamatory towards Clayton Bigsby?

[@imaginethat3026]

​@@tommydevine9993 😂😂😂

[@arnabiarnab3037]

A memorabilia🤔…. I mean he’s right… who among us don’t have a Noose in the backyard as a memorabilia To show how much we hate slavery

[@RachelAmmons]

😂😂😂☝🏼 this! exactly! lol

[@jameskinion5670]

Absolutely beautiful prose. A perfect mixture satire and hard-hitting.

[@suzdeangelo2314]

Thank you.

[@Vhlathanosh]

😂😂

[@darkmagus64]

Thanks! Love the show.

[@WINuFAIL]

I once went to a "fundraiser" at a wealthy Jewish couple's house as part of a chabad event. The owner gave us a tour and showed us one of his prized possessions. In the parlor he had a beautiful hand-crafted poker set from under the Nazi regime. Eagles everywhere, and each chip was hand-painted with a big ass swastika on it. To be honest, I thought it was pretty baller.

[@nickstadler1906]

♫ Hold me closer, Tiny Harlan ♫ Count the Hitler memorabilia ♫ Lay me down in Nazi linen ♫ Had a busy day today ♫

[@raymondleggs5508]

LOL! I died when I read that! 😀😀😀😄😅😅😂😂💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@annepascoe3029]

Lol😂😂😂

[@Noooiiiissseee]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@ESgsPhysics]

"That's like the mewtwo of nazi memorabilia" is possibly the funniest sentence I've heard all year.

[@jan-willemvandijk3850]

Mew is rarer tho.

[@ESgsPhysics]

@@jan-willemvandijk3850 I'm willing to cut Emma some slack for not saying something like "This is like the nazi memorabilia you're supposed to find when you use strength on the truck"

[@BoboMcBooboy]

There's something to the idea of having this memorabilia... There's another entirely to display it all over the place in glass, in your private residence, so you see it every single day, "because you hate it" lol

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

The dood has *EMBROIDERED LINENS* As somebody who works in hospitality, embroidered linens cost a lot of money, and you have to find somebody that will actually embroider it for you. You don't get embroidered linens without being a big fan.

[@Amayzun1]

I absolutely LOVE spending loads of money on things I hate. Otherwise, how would I remember it? I display all kinds of things in my home that I absolutely hate and am against.... 😒

[@atticusrex2691]

As a black man, I love collecting old slave overseer whips and the original edition of Birth of a Nation.

[@RandomU5erName]

guys the whips, chains. and noose displays are to remind him slavery is bad!

[@jasonbarton6087]

Holy Shit. Although the Majority Report has popped up in my feed for decades, only recently have I spent more than 15 secs at a time indulging in it and less time appreciating Emma, since the show clearly prioritizes Sam; he is the named host, after all. Yet, over the past several days - while Sam is cavorting on the beaches of Bali or wherever he is at the moment - I've watched several videos of Emma steering the ship and HOLY FUCK... she is AMAZING! What a dry, understated sense of humor - equal to Sam's - plus an amazing capacity to riff on the latest right-wing foibles, in this case involving Clarence Thomas and Nazis, two things I never imagined I'd hear in the same sentence. And, her takedown of Bari Weiss was EPIC - infused w/ deftly-wielded anger that felt utterly honest. IMO Emma channels her anger much more readily than Sam does his. As for Ben Shapeno. Clearly, he doesn't realize that Crow doesn't merely own a Hitler bust - bizarre enough. Instead, he owns Swastika-emblazoned medals and napkins - objects that clearly hold talismanic power for Crow, even as he professes to abhor Naziism. Either way, it's bizarre and fetishistic. "It's just there so people can ogle at power - maybe there's a little bit of Hitler's soul in it." FUCKING brilliant! Crow's collection of such objects is bizarrely reverential.

[@Mydogslove2laugh]

Agreed.

[@modernkiwi6447]

Benji just described what museums are for. It’s normal to have this crap in a history museum, not in your own home

[@marke2452]

He "owns" Clarence Thomas, to show his children how awful slavery can be.

[@woadblue]

The mewtew of historical artifacts, in reference to a signed "mein kampf' is not something I would have guessed I needed to hear.

[@tannerbruning868]

If it was actually about preserving history it would be in a museum ben, not a private collection I’d ask if Ben Shapiro is aware of what a “useful idiot” is but then I remember his entire career is based on being one,

[@templarw20]

I think calling Shapiro a "useful idiot" is disingenuous. He knows, he understands. He's just evil.

[@cattibingo]

I hate the taste of cilantro so i turned my living room into an herb garden

[@karlheven8328]

Be comfortable being uncomfortable!

[@lealmelisa]

I imagine Harlan Crow in a Hannibal Lecter voice welcoming Thomas to his n@zi parafernalia collection like "HELLO CLARANCE...." 🧠🍽️🔪🤐🐑🤫

[@shiahalud]

While it's important to remember history I'd find it incredibly hard to not destroy that collection and send it where it belongs... A museum

[@tylerhackner9731]

I can’t imagine being Ben Shapiro

[@charlesstevensEnki]

😂 I feel you.

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

I can't imagine him ever thinking displaying Nazi memorabilia would be an appropriate way to "remember" the atrocities committed by them, but here he is. I wonder how many signed copies of Mein Kampf Ben displays?

[@neilpepper7801]

Methinks Ben Shapiro has the same problem

[@jaex9617]

Prolly don't want to, so...

[@waxhawguy]

If you've felt a wet vagina you'd probably never be able to.

[@rhysholdaway]

The saddest part of this is that so many of these "close friends" of Republican donors are paid for supplicants. It must be a very lonely life.

[@isaac.anthony]

That should all be in PUBLIC museum, not PRIVATE collections, if your goal is to "show the past" to people, because then he's just showing off this to his friends.

[@lilmoe4364]

"He abhors tyranny" which is of course why he is such good friends with a guy trying to take away abortion rights, against the will of most of the people

[@Danielle-zq7kb]

People in America mostly don’t know who Pol Pot is.

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

The moment Clarence Thomas attempts to open Frederick Douglas's Bible it ends up like opening the Ark of The Covenant and angry Old Testament Nubian and Aksum Warrior Spirits melts Clarence Thomas & his wife !

[@golgothavirus]

That would be dope

[@susieq1170]

That's such a great visual.

[@dalkurd1]

I would love to see the BBC host that made Shapiro run away, to ask him about defending this

[@TheJrr71]

That was Andrew Neil, former editor of The Sunday Times, a Murdoch owned right-wing UK newspaper. He was also the chairman of GB News, a Fox "News" type of ultra right-wing propaganda spewing channel in the UK, watched by about half a dozen morons. Having said all that, when he hosts BBC interviews or shows, he is scrupulously impartial, as poor little Ben, so embarrassingly, found out. I had forgotten about that until I read your comment, thank you for making my day just that little bit better.

[@karlheven8328]

@@TheJrr71 Sam Seder is not even close to impartial! 😂 Owning memorabilia does not make you a Nazi. Ridiculous!

[@TheJrr71]

@@karlheven8328 Sam Seder has never hosted a television show on the BBC... or edited a national Sunday newspaper in the UK either! How utterly inept are you, if you are incapable of reading one small comment without getting everything wrong. What a dumbass.

[@anthonyymm511]

LOL he struggled so hard at the end there to justify this. Uhhh yeah well.. If you hate these things that seems like why you’d keep them all over your house and garden…

[@sethfroman7044]

If I HATED something, I don’t see myself going out, searching and spending a ton of money on those things I hate. That’s just odd.

[@karlheven8328]

You just said it: „YOURSELF“. But people are different. Some people like having dictators in their garden to have something really memorable to display like in a museum. And there is nothing wrong with that. You know nothing if this man and you all conclude he must be a Nazi. Yet you don‘t hold his communist statues against him.

[@sethfroman7044]

@@karlheven8328 not once in my comment did I claim he was a nazi. You completely missed the point I was making and did u even watched the video, or the defense this guy made for owning the stuff. And like you said, “in a museum”, which is normal. Who do u know that has a garden full of Nazi or communist stuff? Stuff belongs in a museum, not some billionaires garden.

[@sndspderbytes]

What about Republicans banning the Diary of Anne Frank?

[@elisawhitman8526]

Ah yes. We all have that one feminist friend who has posters of Andrew Tate all over her house just to remember the things she hates. 🙄 So relatable, Ben.

[@Murcans-worship-felons]

If, in order to live, I had to be Ben Shapiro, I would have to severely question whether my further existence was justified.

[@str8delco589]

Cringe post 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@ianbruno237]

I have all these statues and books and memorabilia because I hate them and want other people to hate them so I built a museum of hating in my house…but I’m not inviting anyone to see it just my friends. Totally normal

[@hylerj]

Ben's yarmulke must be spinning off his head from the dancing he's doing

[@raymondleggs5508]

Clarence Thomas is literally Uncle Ruckus

[@Toywins]

If ruckus isn't based on Thomas, idk who ruckus is based on! 😂💯

[@constancetorseth6648]

"I'm not a fascist. Some of my most prized possessions are NOT Nazi memorabilia..."

[@philipvipond2669]

The "garden of evil" is weird, but it's not the thing that makes him a nazi. As they said in the clip, the Hitler memorabilia is *inside the house,* mixed in with Churchill memorabilia. The busts outside might not be glorifying their subjects, but the nazi linens and signed copy of Mein Kampf are another matter.

[@cynickal]

You know what totally normal people decorate their homes with? Things they hate.

[@karlheven8328]

Is it now forbidden to not be what you call „normal“. Is being edgy now banned? Funnily enough Pol Pot and Stalin killed more ppl. than Hitl3r and they only care about that he has memorabilia of H1tler. Ridiculous.

[@joshmccollen700]

Ben "Can you imagine if the shoe had been on the other foot?" Shapiro.

[@rudeinterplanetjanet]

Crow greatly admires Thomas because his values are up for sale! He was for sale and Crow bought him.

[@Snailman3516]

The only acceptable excuse for owning nazi memorabilia is if you or an ancestor of yours captured it during ww2 as a battle trophy.

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

Nothing says “NEVER AGAIN!” like linens and stamps.

[@barbiedahl]

Ben Shapiro is the kind of man who would've sold yellow cloth to the Germans in WWII.

[@phillgornall2296]

Is it normal to collect things that you hate? I thought you collected things that you liked enough to collect them.

[@ycoyle2803]

That reminds me of an old Ellen joke about people mounting deer heads on their wall because they love deer.

[@karlheven8328]

Collectors often collect things they do not approve of. Maybe collecting has gone out of fashion, but my grandpa had a large collection of Hitler stamps. Was he a Nazi, absolutely not.

[@charlesstevensEnki]

Harlen first name should have been Jim.

[@thomasrevere7916]

If you own and display an array of ANYTHING, you're a fan.

[@choccolocco]

Agreed.

[@slk1451]

My dad worked for Tyson foods and someone high up in the company in the 80’s showed him their Klan robes. Lots of rich people have this stuff.

[@choccolocco]

When my great grandfather passed, my grandfather found his klan robe…. Then he burned it, along with anything else he found having to do with them.

[@teorewatepou1493]

I've never known anyone to collect memorabilia because they hate it.

[@choccolocco]

That’s because it doesn’t happen. He’s lying, it’s his shrine, like so many other nazis have in their homes and/or garages.

[@karlheven8328]

Ever heard of Jordan Peterson? He is a famous conservative psychologist, intellectual and activist, call him what you want, and he has lots of communist propaganda paintings and memorabilia in his house. Some people are a little bit out there and that is ok. You cannot just conclude that he is a Nazi without knowing anything about him.

[@tylerkochman1007]

Yes Ben. I cannot think of a better way to educate people on topics than locking artifacts in a private collection. I too collect things I hate in the mass quantities that are usually reserved for cards and comic books.

[@Pospolite-Ruszenie]

So what about the communist stuff? Is he also a communist?

[@tylerkochman1007]

@@Pospolite-Ruszenie seems he is drawn to all sorts of authoritarians

[@tavonbrown9237]

Clarence could enter the big house because Clarence is one of the good ones. The useful ones. If Clarence wasn't on the supreme court he wouldn't even make it on the premises.

[@MrOvadose101]

Right, Benny. What does a signed copy of Mein Kampt say about capitalism and socialism??

[@brucetaylor7871]

Once they figured out that they can get rich promoting racism and hate any sense of DECENCY was over. Once you can't shame them, there's NO reasoning with them.

[@ieatpaste8360]

No person has N@zi memorabilia without some attachment to the nostalgia of the party.

[@kazumahazeuzumaki]

Well, not necessarily. While the Nazis are some of the worst people ever, studying them and their artifacts isn't inherently nostalgic for it. My grandfather was in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, and escaped with his life in 1943. He kept some items from his time there, and he was NOT sympathetic to the Nazis. I'm just saying, possession of an item is not endorsement of it's existence.

[@GazB85]

I’m far-left but collect coins and have a 1938 Nazi Germany 5 silver mark coin which I love along with my silver 1922 Soviet Russia 1 Ruble and silver 1924 Soviet Union 1 ruble.

[@alexdasliebe5391]

No friend of Clarence Thomas

[@boringstuff1542]

@@GazB85 Coins are not the same thing as a signed copy of mein kampf and a slew of other nazi memorabilia - don't you think?

[@TheDesertRat31]

Nope. I have an Iraqi dinar from Saddam's regime. I kept it because it was obvious how unique of an artifact it would become. I harbor no sympathies for the Baath regime or Saddam whatsoever. Sure there are sickos who would fetishize over nazi artifacts, but that is one period of history that needs to be kept from fading into obscurity. Also, it's not much different from civil war memorabilia.

[@jessetorres8738]

I feel that if we have a 2 & 1/2 term limit (or 10 year maximum) for the Presidency & a majority of Governors have term limits, we should have term limits for all members of the House (I say 10, 2 year terms), Senate (3, 6 year terms), & Judicial Branch (at most 20 years). I feel this is the only way to ensure we prevent complicity in our government by constantly changing it, & with these term limits, Justice Thomas would have been removed & replaced over a decade ago!

[@kcolonelx6181]

12 years max for legislative, 20 years for judicial. No grandfathering and once you hit the limit, you're gone.

[@alexdasliebe5391]

Owner donors don’t like term limits. What if The Cock Brothers had to -lobby- bribe multiple candidates to stop paying their bills?! Undemocratic! They couldn’t rely on name recognition.

[@sensualeye]

I suspect just abolishing gerrymandering would radically change how government works.

[@jenniferhunter4074]

I think making these individuals accountable to their victims would be an incentive feature for them to behave. For example, an older SCOTUS ruled Separate but Equal. well, if we had removed qualified immunity, those justices would have had to think about the consequences to themselves. For example, I want Alito to be personally liable for every single woman who has issues because of his ruling in Dobbs. If he likes pregnancy and babies, he can pay for it and then, his family can pay for it. And by pay, I mean death. Alito better be willing to die for his ruling. If he's so cavalier with women's lives, I think I can be equally cavalier with his life and the lives of those he considers precious. I'm willing to go Kazer Soze (Usual Suspects) on him. I also think we shouldn't allow conservatives to have that much power over people. No offense but when have conservatives ever been good people? They fought to include the 3/5s clause. They fought for King George at my nation's founding. They fought for the confederates. They fought for Jim Crow. They fought for Trump. They have always fought against the well being of Americans. I don't trust conservatives to be good people who are careful with other people's lives. Even now, these conservatives can't even pretend to care about children being shot in schools but they do care about drag queens and trans kids. Doesn't that prove my point? That they are unfit to have power over people?

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

@@sensualeye BINGO. Why aren't democrats advocating for this? (We know why). If the Democrats are so concerned with the rise of fascism and the impending cataclysm that WILL be wrought upon the world thanks to climate change, they should be proposing legislation BANNING ALL GERRYMANDERING. It's madness.

[@mattmiller9809]

Just throwing it out there as a history buff (I'm a history major with a bachelors degree in the subject), there's no reason to collect memorabilia lmaooo that's weird lol. The only valid reason to buy that type of memorabilia is to buy it and donate it to a museum where it can be properly studied and used to educate people on. Same with the other objects btfw; idk why anyone would have Douglass' Bible or a bust of Lincoln in his house lol. The Bible should be in a museum and the bust, while cool, also belongs in a public setting. Idk if this guy is a Nazi or not but he's clearly fascinated by them rather than appalled by them which is itself not healthy.

[@mooseymoose]

Of course he’s a Nazi.

[@feudinggreeks3316]

To be a history major your comment read with vast illiteracy and grammatical errors. Anyways, just because you think that there's "no reason to collect memorabilia" doesn't mean that there isn't a reason to collect memorabilia, that's just your opinion on what is perceived as proper reasoning. "The only valid reason to buy that type of memorabilia is to buy it and donate it to a museum." Yes, because unless you're a philanthropist, it's totally sound to spend hundreds of thousands on artifacts just to donate it to a museum and educate the public. You do realize that collecting priceless objects, such as paintings for example, and holding on to them for a possible future investment, is practiced all the time. And often time it's just a hobby to collect historical pieces of work for one's personal curiosity or satisfaction of owning expensive historical pieces. "The only valid reason" - As I've just mentioned 2 valid reasons for collecting memorabilia at the top of my head, it would appear that your view of what is valid is extremely narrowminded and void of consideration.

[@D_isco_D_ancer]

"What the.... what the..." He can't even BS his audience with a straight face.

[@lauravillanueva2175]

Yeah, Ben looked at that as if it was absolutely weird. The mental process that allows any of us to acquire material things of personal value doesn’t make logical sense comparing things we dislike to what we want to own. Nobody spends hundreds of thousands of dollars buying memorabilia that proves people suck.”

[@YoungMatt81]

Shapiro's favorite word is apparently, apparently.

[@tyronnemoss]

I’ve hated the cowboys since I was a kid. I don’t need an Emmitt Smith jersey to remind me of my hatred of the team. Ben does a lot of stretching here🤦🏾‍♂️

[@str8delco589]

Go birds! 🦅

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

a signed copy of mein kampf... and bibi shapeepee is like "yeah, that's fine, because he votes for the party I like"

[@tylerkochman1007]

Yep. He’s always reaching to accuse the left of being antisemitic, and reaching to pretend the right-wing is not

[@rolloutthebarrel]

I LOVE IT! They’re fine to give “historical” status to this stuff, like we don’t want to forget how bad this stuff is, but oh no critical race theory- just the CONCEPT of it is absolutely not okay! what a bunch of f’ing clowns these guys are when they are pressed to actually show how their views are so hyper-inconsistent.

[@HeathWatts]

Shouldn't Frederick Douglass' bible be in a museum rather than owned by a billionaire or a SCOTUS Justice? Why would Thomas want that bible anyway? Thomas stands against everything the Douglass valued.