Chapo Reading Series - Ben Shapiro's Awful History of the West

[@aagretsky]

13:28 "We fight harder and more viciously over smaller and smaller matters..." As of writing this, Ben has just posted a 40-minute video criticizing the Barbie Movie.

[@jj947]

And he’s help create one of the worst live action comedy movies and worst animated sitcoms of all time

[@zer0nix]

"Being a child prodigy just means you were stunted at an age you never were" Holy fuck what a line...

[@tripp8833]

That's actually really deep

[@namelesswalaby]

@@tripp8833 lol yeah deeply bitter lmao

[@TheKiroshi]

@@tripp8833 -- deep for 14. You can find a lot of people who we're depressed, face major issues, or lost out on basics to survive.. early in life, far far far more often than someone being called a "child prodigy". Chile prodigy = "my parents had a superiority problem." Nothing more, nothing less. Ben Shapiro does kinda prove that...

[@5508Vanderdekken]

@@namelesswalaby don't cry too hard baby. It's embarassing

[@namelesswalaby]

@@5508Vanderdekken Sorry what am I crying about again

[@austinsowers2974]

Claims to fight against racism, openly insults Palestinians as dogs

[@jurtra9090]

TYPICAL

[@jamesnadell1998]

Whines and wails about virtue signaling while wearing a yarmulka, an obvious virtue signal.

[@Tyler-ub2gq]

Hamas. Hamas is the problem, ya doofus. Free Palestine from Hamas, which is a terrorist group. Ben has never said that all Palestinians are bad. 😊

[@berdyderg900]

(((tolerance)))

[@John-bravooo]

When? Palestinian society is one of the most racist in the world. They ban Jews from owning property. Imagine the US bans Blacks from owning property.

[@jjjjackkk]

When I saw this book stocked in one of the major chain bookstores near me I noticed it was put on a shelf just above eye level (I'm 5'8"). Couldn't help but amuse myself with the thought that Ben wouldn't be able to reach up to get his own book

[@namelesswalaby]

Ben Shapiro on the other hand probably doesn’t think about you at all.

[@nomdeplore7604]

@@namelesswalaby what makes you say that?

[@MrBell-iq3sm]

@@namelesswalaby Ben constantly thinks about people like Jack. All the time, which is why he accuses everyone, who questions him even slightly, of being a Jack.

[@mitchclark1532]

@@namelesswalaby Actually he has made several videos about Jack

[@ryllo2886]

@KOT he said 5'8, not 58 inches

[@mack1ngton]

the hypothetical republican reciting the strategic uses of the 1953 Moon Act has to be one of my favorite Felix bits

[@ZeusGExactly]

What’s the 1953 moon act ? I googled it to know relevance

[@timothybell5698]

The hypothetical 18th century Bacchanal has to be one of my favourite bits.

[@BenjaminGlatt]

​@@timothybell5698 Ben Carson telling the youth to pull up their pants is the GOAT.

[@Trapashow]

And who can forget Nephew Alpha Bravo

[@JStack]

Him smoking less weed and hanging out with Mullen less has really resulted in the near disappearance of impressionist Felix

[@ConstantHungerE]

"Chattel slavery was the nitro booster in the engine of capitalism." - Matt That's why I keep coming back for them hawt takes I love so much.

[@justcommenting4981]

Idpol Jihadist for those of us mainlining it.

[@mitchclark1532]

We should all try to be more like Matt

[@420JackG]

@@mitchclark1532 I think Matt would say we all need to strive to be ourselves.

[@lightofchicagoproductionz9012]

It still is ...

[@maxxymrice6200]

Capitalism is just modern day serfdom.

[@ComradeQuagsire]

Listening to a lot of these older bits to get a Matt fix. Much appreciated having so many great ones.

[@PinkoJack]

*Trump voice* "its called we do a little colonialism. We do a little colonialism"

[@johndrocky4377]

THANK YOU 🙏 ACID MARXIST FOR ALL THE AWESOME VIDEOS!!! 👏🔥🥊

[@MichaelTorres-b2v]

So basically he plagiarized Steven Pinker. What a shock.

[@videogamenostalgia]

Ben Shapiro shouldn't be writing books or presenting an online show, he should be lurking under bridges telling passers-by whimsical riddles, or trying to get beleaguered peasants to guess his name.

[@bethmoore7722]

“Everyone’s lying about doing the reading” I could teach a course in getting by without doing all the reading. Opening paragraphs of each chapter, last chapter, closing paragraphs. Less than half an hour, and you can do that with most undergrad courses.

[@keithjackewicz8423]

Isn’t that pretty much what people do in grad school most of the time?

[@swagtasticpanda]

@@keithjackewicz8423 bro it's what i did for grad school.

[@dontnerfmebro8052]

@@keithjackewicz8423 depends on the grad course. But yeah. Honestly, even if you want to, sometimes the reading lists require some of these techniques.

[@Johnsmith99663]

You don't need to teach a course, you just posted the whole trick. A: Entirety of introductory and final chapters (where the book lays out and repeats its entire argument/purpose) B: Entirely of first and final paragraphs of each intervening chapter C: First and last sentence of each intervening paragraph between those two paragraphs You should always do all three, but if you're really pressed for time, A and B are sufficient. If it's truly the last minute, doing just A will give you a fighting chance.

[@diehounderdoggenalt]

I have a history degree, they taught us to do this and get away with it by calling it "tearing down" the book. If you stick a piece of specialized jargon onto a behavior they'll let you get away with it!

[@GrimReader]

I love that Ben looks as uncomfortable as that photo was to take. It's impressive how the awkwardness is emanating off the screen

[@harperna3938]

my man's got a bad case of indigestion

[@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816]

"trust me, I'm confident i swear, I'm not being awkward, YOU'RE AWKWARD FUCKYOU"

[@aperson5305]

His face really wasn't built for smiling with.

[@videogamenostalgia]

@@aperson5305 I have never seen him smile, he just sort of sneers.

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

He looks like he had his mandible dislocated to fake that smirk. It confirms my long held suspicion that he is actually a snake.

[@BassOfPj]

I chuckled at the clown take of Ben about how "The Great Depression didn't tear us apart". As if there wasn't a literal Fascist plot against FDR because of his New Deal policies that got interrupted by Gen. Smedley Butler

[@TheCandyManCanToday]

Wanting desperately to return to a past that never existed is a classic conservative trope, perhaps even the primary one. Well, the slightly smarter ones know that that specific version of the past didn't exist, but they want to invent it nonetheless through policies that would amount to the worst genocides and ethnic cleansings so far in human history. Like, a common sentiment is something like: "Seventy years ago, we weren't so divided and polarized and everything wasn't so political!" while a significant chunk of the population was segregated and women were second-class citizens. The stupid ones literally believe that claim and write West-Wing-esque fanfiction, whereas the slightly smarter ones realize that the only potential method to achieve that would be a white ethnostate. Not that it would even work because the tendencies of capitalism cannot be undone, the cake cannot be unbaked, imperialism and the rate of profit are declining, so tens of millions would be killed for basically nothing.

[@onetimeanswer]

Replace 'Athens' with 'Anhk', and "Jerusalem" with 'Moroph' Congratulations: You now know enough about Discworld-lore to not care which novel you start with.

[@SgtKaneGunlock]

honestly reading terry Pratchett will probably have the reverse effect than what bens tome of shit takes will do for your brain

[@MJH-kr4zg]

It's funny that Ben Shapiro is always talking about "rationality," while he wears a yamaka and talks about "Judeo Christian," values. Solid foundation there.

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

Fuck yeah dude. Reverend George Carlin said There's also way too much religion in the (South) to be consistent with good mental health. That goes for everywhere Anyone whos identity is wrapped up in religion that hard is either, softheaded, a con artist, or a psychopath. _NONE_ are to be trusted.

[@ryankelly8074]

He's not a homophobe, he's just "rational".

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

Even the term "Judeo-Christian" is nonsense. The 2 teachings are mostly contradictory. Jesus is even insulted in Talmud. While Islam considers Jesus a great prophet. It's like saying Islamo-Buddhist.

[@bouin91]

"Well, you see, circumcision is a signifier for higher intelligence and wealth. So logically, circumcision is in the child's and the nation's interest. It also provides common cultural ground with the only democracy in the middle East. "

[@bouin91]

"Well, you see, circumcision is a signifier for higher intelligence and wealth. So logically, circumcision is in the child's and the nation's interest. It also provides common cultural ground with the only democracy in the middle East. "

[@IAmNumber4000]

“Those twin notions, those diamonds of spiritual genius…” This man is literally a middle schooler

[@mstrfstr310]

It's amazing to me that they simultaneously call liberal students "fragile, weak, in need of 'safe space' snowflakes" while clutching their Ayn Rand novels in fear of "violent protest" from the same.

[@VildhjartaFanGurl]

Matt going through the slides of a fifties American agricultural economy had me dying lmfao

[@BrandonAzzarella]

M I L L E T !

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

@@BrandonAzzarella (Beep!)

[@blackdog9698919]

If the Judeo-Christian rule brought us to Ben Shapiro, of what use was the rule?

[@vaiyt]

the "judeo-" there is doing a lot of unwarranted legwork

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

​@@vaiytYup. Plus the ancient Greeks and Romans are turbo spinning in their graves.

[@condor237]

Hellenistic thought and Jewish thought are diametrically opposed. That’s literally the origin of the Maccabees and Hanukkah. Wtf is he talking about Jerusalem and Athen?!?! Traitor

[@vaiyt]

Everything about Ben Shapiro invoking Jerusalem and Athens is just fucking wrong, starting with the fact that Christianity rejected Jewish thought very early on.

[@matthewmacdonaldchannel1]

“That’s quite a Lockian dump I took…” Christman fucking kills me.

[@420JackG]

@Creepy Crust cucked and crosspilled

[@kneelanb1]

Felix’s “lunar god” riff is so so so funny 😂😂😂😂

[@CoolAdam247]

Mr Feeney turned Ben out and since then he's turned to Judeo Christian values to come to terms that he's in love with Mr Feeney.

[@jingbot1071]

Actually did the drink/smoke challenge for "Jerusalem and Athens". Ran out of beer a little bit in. Then whiskey. Then pot. At the end I was just cursing the dry boys for fucking up my rationing.

[@kobinho1917]

“Intellectual bum fights” 👏👏 incredible

[@maxxymrice6200]

Don't intellectual and bum cancel each other out?

[@Samuel_Morchin]

@@maxxymrice6200 You've never met a professional philosopher.

[@marcusmalone]

Had to stop watching this, only 'cos I kept wanting to punch the upper left side of my TV in the face.

[@loln00bsify]

Matt and Amber making sexual innuendos as often as they can is very wholesome

[@TerrenceNowicki]

"Cool Kids' Philosopher" I can think of at least three things wrong with that title.

[@000MidnightSun]

Ben Shapiro would have been the guy who turns his neighbors in to the Gestapo

[@lepus6511]

*his family and neighbors

[@maxxymrice6200]

He would've turned his own family into the Gestapo and gained the rank of SS officer.

[@crimsondynamo615]

He truly is a rat who does anything to save his own skin

[@cablehogue599]

So all the racism of True Allegiance but more boring? Sounds like a great book 🙄

[@williamjameslehy1341]

No graphic descriptions of ursine men and their "shit-holes".

[@redox4088]

More boring? What do you mean true Allegiance is boring. It is a pure comedic masterpiece, It is thoroughly entertaining start to finish.

[@PDXVoiceTeacher]

Did you read the epilogue where Ben talks about the 36 cowboys at Ram Ranch? It's only in the first edition....

[@jurtra9090]

@@PDXVoiceTeacher whut? Isn't that from his short stories book?

[@nohbuddy1]

I get saying college sucks but when you HAVE to have a degree to get a decent paying job you don't have much of a choice

[@nohbuddy1]

@Creepy Crust No

[@gorkaaustin5306]

You absolutely don’t have to get a degree to get a decent paying job but college still should not be so expensive

[@nohbuddy1]

@@gorkaaustin5306 Yes you do. So many careers and jobs require a four year degree.

[@ToruKun1]

"I have never seen a Homer Simpson t-shirt!" I have an actual piece of True Allegiance merch. It's a Simpsons shirt from 1990 of Homer reaching out to strangle Bart and saying "WHY YOU LITTLE...!" with the caption "Atomic Dad" on the bottom.

[@robert9016]

Shit that’s pretty close…. toeing the line of a Bart shirt my friend

[@robertdingleton1929]

I had one that said 'old school' and had Homer from high school on it.

[@josephgreear5789]

I had one that had Homer on the couch in his undies that said "American Idol", one that said "Doughnuts, is there anything they can't do", and "Hardwork pays off in the future. Slacking pays off now."

[@robert9016]

I miss Amber

[@slowloris2894]

Holy shit. This is the hackiest writing I have ever read. Now wonder he failed at his dream of being a screenwriter even with every necessary connection.Ben sat there for hours trying to write anything of substance. Every single person on this podcast are such gifted orators that it sounds like every quip and rant is scripted. Meanwhiile Ben is still searching in his thesarus for an appropriate synonym for "logic."

[@yareyarejose5080]

true allegiance was the epitome of that imo. ben had a complete blank slate to do whatever he wanted and he just came up with the most generic scenario and characters imaginable. even the most generic 80s action movie or college students posting fanfiction on ao3 do a much better job at being fun and engrossing.

[@SgtKaneGunlock]

@@yareyarejose5080 some of my favorite episodes of Behind the Bastards is them reading Ben terrible novel and making fun of it

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

When you have to right a book insisting you are on the right side of history, sorry benny boy it sucks to suck.

[@westechcny5643]

The thing about Ben Shapiro is that he just has zero redeeming qualities. Just the worst in all categories.

[@charlottemarceau8062]

"Logic reason & faith in god" - Shapino

[@vaiyt]

Ah, the Treaty of Westphalia, which when combined with nationalism and colonialism, became the source of 99% of all border conflicts since. Truly a momentous human achievement.

[@redox4088]

Didn't this guy study at Harvard? Why is this book written in like middle school english?

[@Hotshotter3000]

Because he was published in articles when he was 16 years old and never bothered to develop.

[@bossplayerunit4563]

because harvard and all the other ivy league schools arent actually better than any other university but they sure love pretending they do

[@redox4088]

@@Hotshotter3000 That's an awfully bad thing to do for someone who aspires to be a writer.

[@barbarasmith6005]

Maybe he was a legacy admit.

[@one-sidedrationalization1091]

Because most people read at an 8th grade level.

[@IAmNumber4000]

The right: “Uhhh ackshually sweaty, it’s revisionist to say slavery was evil because slavers didn’t think it was evil at the time” Also the right: “My religion literally saved history”

[@tamartin64]

The real American culture is two cities: Springfield, Mo and Memphis, TN. This so factual and logical it needs no defense.

[@harrymon0]

If we're talking about Memphis itself and not the suburbs, then yes you're right.

[@unclegumbald989]

**Every** time I hear them quote Ben about golf I always think of Furio from Sopranos saying "Stupidah fucking game!"

[@gg2fan]

35:00 I love Matt desperately trying to interrupt amber to list all the anti-semitic catholic figures he knows

[@Khemith_Demon_Hours]

"susyphus" I died.

[@Blady99]

Now clap your hands everybody And everybody clap your hands

[@gregoryborton6598]

7:16 "Look at america's vast fields of wheat!" BEEP "Barely!" BEEP "Millet!" This Matt bit never fails to make me lol.

[@95Bartlett]

“Rejected and ejected”

[@macnsteez3938]

Lmao matt had me in stitches in that first 5min. Ben totally does have a black and white educational movie running through his head when he's asked why America is the best country Then the Felix 1954 Moon Act bit. Ben brings the best out of the chapos lol

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

SPOILER its a coloring book

[@thatyoutubechannel9953]

I was drinking an absolutely delicious cider, but nothing can withstand the torturous drinking game of Ben Shapiro keep-up

[@BENABONZO]

"Ah, that was quite a Lockean dump I took." Fucking dead

[@CzolgoszWorkinMan]

came here after learning Ben is a Black Israelite

[@tzusun6876]

Minor moment, but knowing that Matt has seen The Room made me smile.

[@Baseballnfj]

I did nat hit her! I did NAT! Oh Hai mark

[@PDXVoiceTeacher]

@@daniellaker92 YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LIZZZZZZAAA!

[@Baseballnfj]

@@PDXVoiceTeacher you invited all my friends! What a great idea!

[@theeNappy]

Ben Shapiro and his ilk sanctify the concept of debate because they never stop debating. Even after they have clearly lost the argument they will ignore their own inilectual and moral bankruptcy and carry on as if they didn't hear no bell, or that they won because their opponent was sick of rehashing the same aettled debate for the thousandth time. (ie 2+2=4, just because some idiot wants to debate that for eternity dosen't chance reality. )That refusal to quit the fiel really resonates to people who don't care enough to hear what he's saying but love the tone in which he says it.

[@user-pn3mw7rx1s]

theres a vampire weekend song that says "judeo-christianity, never heard the words, enemies for centuries, until there was a third" I think what its getting at is that the idea of judeo christianity is silly as jews and christians worked against eachother for hundreds of years until they both decided they were white enough and muslims were their real enemy

[@vaiyt]

and for the most part the alliance is mostly christians paying lip service to liking jews as a cover

[@vaiyt]

Until World War 2 pogroms were Europe's most popular sport. The "Judeo-" part of Judeo-Christian was appended after anti-Semitism became a faux pas in western Europe, and some people are still itching to cut it back out.

[@tinfoilslacks3750]

Ben's entire deal is being deeply racist but making sure that the concept of white he pushes is jewish inclusive because the people he appeals to would gas him at the drop of a hat.

[@SuperGreentoker]

Damn I drunk along with Jerusalem and Athens and have legit gone through a beer and a half. I'm on the next chapter and have half a beer left but I'm scared to drink it in case he starts saying Jerusalem and Athens every other sentence and I'd have to drink a third.

[@chriss780]

rip to your liver

[@sammosaurusrex]

Wait a minute Gloria Steinem does peace signs with the FBI? What?

[@benjamindorothy5667]

She's a big fan of the CIA as well

[@princejellyfish3945]

Pretty sure she dated Kissinger in the 80's as well

[@Khemith_Demon_Hours]

Many leftists were funded by proxy government agencies to keep marxism from western leftism.

[@PDXVoiceTeacher]

In ben's voice: 18 naked cowboys...

[@miskatonic_alumni]

Bootyhole waxed down.

[@sammosaurusrex]

I thought we’d agreed his name is “Ben Sha-P-word”

[@feydrautha012]

"Biological group"-a way to signal to the "human biodiversity" people that you're with them.

[@wrinklefighter]

Wait... Where is the Culver's open until midnight in Des Moines?

[@function0077]

I pay taxes and I have 1st amendment rights too. I do not have the right to say whatever I want, when ever, and where ever I want. I don't have the write to interrupt a faculty meeting at a university, or interrupt a professor giving a lecture in a classroom. I am okay with that. Ben's 1st amendment rights aren't violated by a university choosing him to be unworthy of a speaking invitation.

[@cringusmoss9937]

4:02 we miss our king.

[@laxg64]

Scrolling by I thought that was the chipotle sign and got really confused why eating chipotle was on the right side of history

[@marcodallolio9746]

Let's hear it for the biological groups

[@MistaZULE]

Shout out to their families

[@unclegumbald989]

I had to scroll down SO FAST from having to look at that face so I could keep listening....

[@prescribedburn]

Did you have to leave his pic up for the whole video? My milk is curdled now.

[@unclegumbald989]

SAME LOL I immediately had to scroll down LOL.. just that... smuggy smirk wants me to do some locker-shovin'...

[@Instramark]

Had no idea Shipiro is age 38. Assumed he is 22 tops. Most annoying munchkin on the planet.

[@function0077]

Yes Ben, and the Republicans still are trying to destroy that progress!

[@bluechalk6275]

"God-Shaped Hole", my favorite Nine Inch Nails song

[@Joebethere7]

It's not Dostoevsky, its Tolstoy

[@yourebackinthenews5425]

Keep on uploading homie

[@davidgrs1]

Anyone know why this episode, among others, was taken down from their pattern page?

[@felicityc]

surprisingly Ben is actually 5'10, someone challenged him in a speaking event and they stood side by side it's still funnier to imagine he's 5'4 though maybe it was a plant

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

He was probably wearing high heels like Meatball Ron

[@parhhesia]

LMFAO that moon bit...

[@tewodrosii2875]

9:35 I just wanna say that Im a big fan of Representative Omars' work as she holds solidarity with Representative Rashida Tlaib here in Michigans' 13th district. Also, I love that she made Elliot Abrams squirm under oath. It was like watching your favorite teacher humiliate that one parent that noone likes in front of everyone. Id say she looks beautiful, but at this point i'd be repeating myself

[@corbinschannel7566]

It's 9 am and this video made me give my self alcohol posing

[@dqrkmqgic6398]

Made it too 31:29 taking bong rips and can’t had to pause the video cause the hits are stacking

[@5508Vanderdekken]

Link for all operators interested in muslamic-style legal codes: 8:33

[@purplebunz]

Its so funny how he attacks doing pointless activities that grant a shot of dopamine, but then suggests nothing to replace it. If he was saying something like "replace drugs with learning a new skill" id be able to get behind it, but my guess is he is anti education and doesnt know how to grow as a person so he legitimately does not know what young people could be doing other than what his high school bullies did for fun.

[@williamwardell8731]

The phrase 'human nature kicked back in' from a guy who starts flailing like peewee herman hearing the secret word if he detects a logical fallacy... lol... human nature was on the fritz for a while but now we can appeal to it in rhetoric again. Now if you'll excuse me I can't defend enlightenment principles on the holy day where I ritualisticly propitiate the sky father of pre-classical desert tribesman

[@walrusgumbootable]

Felix’s stories are hilarious

[@irishrocker1125]

@37:29 Matt: Sometimes... you have a problem. He's hilarious even when having a problem.

[@eatfrenchtoast]

Shapiro by right wing logic is a dei podcaster.

[@fightington]

statistics can be used to prove anything - allow me to spend 500 pages demonstrating that

[@Puketapu]

Oh man this was great

[@wyattrussell7496]

Ben Shapiro's life is the epilogue of Boy Meets World

[@ehmazin]

Cultivate my ass, dude

[@raptormoments]

18:30 is an incredible reference

[@nickbaham5651]

drinking game starts at 29:47

[@nickmendoza8878]

Matt off that coke pack

[@SUPERBURLBOYROY]

Bonzo love Ben 🦉

[@sierrad]

My Shababy 🥰

[@messwithhelpy]

Blacked out around here last time. 1:14:06

[@joshuabrant3487]

College is fun though. Maybe we could just make public highschool a boarding school and cancel college though.

[@dillonwalshpvd]

Lol is that Simpsons music?

[@demidrek-heyward]

ugh quote that quote you attributed to Dostoevsky is a Tolstoy

[@entertainproxi9140]

Jerusalem and Athens built science...........So Ibn el Haythem doesn't exist in Ben's headcanon ? because that guy is considered to be the first actual scientist and he sure as hell wasn't greek or jewish.

[@snappycatchy]

* Using essential oils on your god hole is actually bad for you.