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Recently Ben Shapiro was on Joe Rogan’s podcast. And he made this very nuanced argument that when it comes to protest, Colin Kaepernick was wrong but Martin Luther King Jr was right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His argument was that King said that “In the name of the flag you should stop racism” but that Kaepernick is saying that America is racist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But really: this is a distinction developed to justify a predetermined conclusion. And Shapiro’s conclusion is based upon his visceral dislike of Black Lives Matter and all modern social justice movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapiro could as easily argue that King was right because he showed respect by wearing a suit. Or that Kaepernick is disrespectful because his hair is too long. Or that we should listen to religious leaders but not sports figures. It does not matter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Ben Shapiro Had Been Alive in 1963<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As I’ve noted in the past, conservative beliefs only has a shelf-life of a generation or two. After that, the beliefs’ naked racism and general villainy is clear even to present-day conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Ben Shapiro been around in the 1960s, he would have been like William F Buckley Jr was. In his 1963 book, Rumbles Left and Right: A Book About Troublesome People and Ideas<\/a> <\/em>(1963), Buckley wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Martin Luther King is more sensitive, and so more bitter, than the average Southern Negro, and hence unqualified as a litmus of the Southern Negro’s discontent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, conservatives always <\/em>have a reason to explain being against the justice movements of the moment. In fact, when NBA players recently staged a walk-out over police shootings, Jared Kushner responded condescendingly<\/a>, “Look, I think that the NBA players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they\u2019re able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subtext is clear: what are all these rich guys whining about! This is what Buckley was saying: they don’t have the right to speak for ordinary blacks. The only thing that distinguishes Ben Shapiro is his specific justification for discounting what Colin Kaepernick says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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