When the hateful think they are the virtuous
By: Ben Shapiro
The sheer condescending arrogance and hate coming from the progressive left toward conservatives is a clear and present danger to our economic freedom, religious liberty, and rights as individuals. The idea that we are to be objectified and targeted for our beliefs is Un American.
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It's a sad day in America when a good deed – such as clearing snow from a neighbor's driveway – causes the recipient of the act to speculate if it was politically motivated.
This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. The title: "What can you do about the Trumpites next door?" Heffernan wasn't lamenting neighbors who had tagged her house with pro-Trump graffiti, or who had participated in the Jan. 6 riots, or who had even held an election watch party and turned the music up too loud. No, Heffernan was lamenting the travails of living next door to Trump supporters ... who had cleared her driveway of snow.
Heffernan writes, "Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway ... just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job." This simple act launched Heffernan into a journey of angst and rage. "How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?" she laments. "I realize I owe them thanks – and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro – but how much thanks?"
In order to justify the answer she wants to give – as little thanks as possible, because, after all, these are Evil Trumpites – Heffernan proceeds to speculate as to her neighbors' motives:
- Perhaps they only cleared her driveway because she and they were white.
- Or perhaps this whole event was a reminder that members of evil groups sometimes do good – she compares them to the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and the Nazis.
- If she treats her neighbors with too much decency, she reminds herself, that might make her like an upper-middle-class family from France who collaborated with the Nazis and lamented the Nazis' defeat because of their commitment to being "polite."
Heffernan seethes with the agony of cognitive dissonance. "My neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans," she writes. "They kept him in business with their support. But the plowing."
In the end, Heffernan's solution is to be nice – but not that nice. She will offer a "wave and a thanks," but she is "not ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet." She's unwilling to give her neighbors "absolution," ignoring the fact that they have not asked for absolution, nor do they require absolution for the great sin of voting differently and clearing her driveway of snow.
"Free driveway work, as nice as it is," Heffernan states, "is just not the same currency as justice and truth." The only way she'll be able to truly treat her neighbors decently is if they recognize "the truth about the Trump administration" and work "for justice for all those whom the administration harmed." Then, she'll be decent to her neighbors.
Heffernan's neighbors should immediately pile as much snow as humanly possible back onto her driveway, hose it off and let it freeze.
The nasty snootiness Heffernan evidences is all too common these days. Heffernan obviously judges her neighbors not on the basis of what she knows about them but on stereotypes she holds about all Trump voters. When faced with the reality that those who disagree with her can be nice and decent people, she simply dismisses the possibility altogether, justifying her own viciousness by referencing their supposedly radical political beliefs. Which, of course, makes her the villainess in this particular morality play.
But she's too blind to see it. These days, tens of millions of Americans are. And so, the social fabric continues to shred, all in the name of depraved, unearned moral superiority.
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Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps," "The Right Side of History" and "Bullies."
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In the past we wouldn't have had tens of millions of Americans filled with nonsense that has led them to support the worst president in American history. We wouldn't have had it because until about a dozen years ago there was no social media, certainly not in the sense that we know it now. Without social media there was nowhere near as much spread of misinformation and disinformation, and nowhere near so much blind loyalty to a "political" figure, as there is now to someone who is essentially a lifelong conman and a former game show host. To the point, media and social media created this phenomenon we know as "the Trump follower".
So I think we do have to separate , as best we can, the words and actions of these people that pertain to politics (where many of them are batshit nuts), to how they conduct themselves in the rest of the aspects of their lives. I think the woman in the article , Virginia Heffernan, who by the way is the longtime host of the podcast Trumpcast, should be as "nice" to her next door neighbors as she is to everyone else, until they prove themselves unworthy of her friendship, should that ever happen.
Is anyone more despicable than Ben Shapiro?
Sometimes you have to laugh at the far right...
It's the trump colored glasses apparently. Ben's soul is poisoned. he is not alone
I enjoyed the original article by Virginia Heffernan, it's a bit tongue in cheek, not quite satire.
here's the end...
My neighbor is a trumpite. Retired and well off, he would not take down his Trump signs and flags until after the inauguration, he's
constantly fiddling in the garage, for the last year with Rush and other AM radio talk shows about those evil Un-American libs
blasting from the garage...
Now it's hits from the 50's and 60's again. Does that mean he's plowing my driveway?
Sooner or later we will start talking again about the kids, their homes, grandkids, I know it. I know him. He's dying to brag on his kids.
But politics will be politely avoided for a long time.
an Anti-Trump pundit is the most despicable person in the world?
Okay Donald Trump Jr. Whatever you say.
See that is what amuses us.. most of you seem to know who voted for who..You put signs on your lawn, wear hats and t shirts etc. Then go around to people's houses campaigning for who ever etc.
If you did that here you would probably get your head punched in. No one puts signs on their lawns or goes door to door. I have no idea if my neighbours vote Liberal or Labour. No one cares..why would you? It is no one else's business.
So this women is now in turmoil because a person shovelled snow off her driveway because they supported Trump??
Meanwhile you mob are heading for half a million lost souls..and this is her majour concern..
She needs her head read...
That sounds like a normal person talking.
Then there are crazy people who think neighbors who help them in a snowstorm are evil, and refuse to eat chicken sandwiches because the CEO made a donation they didn't like last decade (even if thy guy they worshipped and voted for President publicly supported that same position.
She's a good example of how batshit crazy many on the left are and how corroded with hate their minds are.
Interesting to compare how she's treated compared to the actress fired by Disney. Publicly outing yourself as a terrible person and calling people Nazis for helping you is okay as long as you are attacking Trump supporters. Probably will get a raise for it.
Have you watched any of the video of the Capitol on 1/6/2021 ?...And you want to talk about the left ? You can't, sorry.
That is completely dishonest.
That just means there will be more incoherent babbling from the rwnjs.
Those rioters are going to jail and are on the margins of society.
this is a journalist for one of the largest papers in the world sharing her hatred of “aggressively nice” people and calling them nazis. Her hatred of people and rabid partisanship is apparently perfectly acceptable behavior.