Comments by "SsjC" (@ssjcosty) on "Joe Rogan Recounts Gay Marriage Disagreement with Ben Shapiro" video.
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Here's another relevant thing here: Joe Rogan knows Ben Shapiro personally, so he can fall back and on his positive interactions with Ben and appreciate his qualities. However, we as audiences who know Ben Shapiro only as a public figure, we have no personal connection with him whatsoever so we can only judge his character based on his public persona and the opinions he spouts. With that in mind, I think that it is reasonable for us to hate Ben and at the same time reasonable for someone like Joe to like him.
Here is a somewhat similar situation from my personal life. I have a friend who in the past 6 years has become an extremely conservative and dogmatic Christian. He goes on religious pilgrimages, he has extremely derogatory views about women, Jews, gay, atheists and people of other religions and he is very vocal about these things. Now, I am still friends with this guy, even though he has pushed away a lot of his other friends. However, I would find it personally reasonable for someone who hasn't had a friendship relationship with him to find him absolutely despicable, because for all intents and purposes, he is. Same with Ben Shapiro.
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