Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1512 - Ben Shapiro" video.

@paulholland4908 You are very welcome. No worries.
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@TheJawRaw There is a lot of money "thrown at" schools in affluent suburbs, and no one seems to see a problem. This is because local property taxes fund local schools. That is unique in the developed world. And it is structural, obviously. It is set up that way.
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I think it's a hoot when these people advocate for good parenting, and in the next breath for "school choice." Since 7-year-old moppets cannot choose their own schools, having a good school is one more thing that will depend on having good, and knowledgeable, PARENTS. So the kids without "good parents" really cannot win. You have to wonder how we ever created the first literate generation. It had to happen at some point -- parents who couldn't even read, and children who could. Apparently we must have had some idea of how to foster a good education, for everyone.
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@brandondrake4609 When our teachers pushed right-wing ideology on us, we took it as an opportunity to read books that said the opposite. Of course, we didn't have video games or Facebook yet, so there's that. We had more time to read on our own, and we had more bookstores, too.
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This is the most ordinary nonsense. What the old guys at the corner barber shop used to say gets you a million-dollar career now.
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@RosygreyglassesS I'm familiar with him. Complete waste of my time. I've got a stack of books to get to, including an old professor's essay on Kant's theory of causation, and an Annie Ernaux. What makes money now is seriously scary. You used to have to be good.
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@RosygreyglassesS Shapiro has to count on a population of nonreaders in order to impress.
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@RosygreyglassesS Nonreaders usually lack the information to see through his spiel. He can sound smart real well. Socrates describes that phenomenon in the Gorgias, so it's as old as the hills. I recommend the Gorgias. It describes well what happens in societies that are in danger of imploding.
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@RosygreyglassesS Did you just engage in vapid ad hominem, confuse grammar with sylistics, and still manage to get my pertinent response to all that removed at lightening speed? How perfect. I won't be creating excellent content for free at this channel any more. Someone around here certainly can dish it out but cannot take it. I thought the crowd here was a little more devoted to free speech and expression. But no.
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@RosygreyglassesS You had a pertinent and complete answer to this nonsense removed, and you are pretending you didn't. "Jealous," "obsessed," "not as smart as," and so forth, is ad hominem. But the likely broad cultural reasons you consider it normal discourse was pointed out to you, and you had it censored immediately. That speaks volumes. I had no idea about the sensitivities I'd encounter, here. Of all places.
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@RosygreyglassesS So, are you going to continue, knowing full well that if I say what I consider to be uncontroversial, and tragic, about your value system and your myopia -- and their cultural source -- you can have me censored lickety split? How brave of you. You did a nice job on the Internet today. I would be mortified if I did that. It wouldn't cross my mind.
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And plenty of people don't need to worry about making good choices and still have tons of money. In fact, Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, Ghislaine Maxwell . . . So many come to mind right away.
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@TheWhisperingPenis How do the exceptions logically negate the statement, "Plenty of people don't need to worry about making good choices?" Trick question, they don't. I didn't say those exceptions were the rule at all. But some exceptions those are, when they include a president, the son of a vice-president, and a personal friend of a crown prince. I mean, I didn't mention the Kardashians or anything. How drole.
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@TheWhisperingPenis And why do you immediately need to suggest you know my politics, and that I should fear looking dumb? A little attitude policing on your part? Very poor ad hominem, that. But I don't want to inadvertently improve your skills, so keep it up. (The jelly metaphor is poor, as well. Couldn't resist. Yeesh.)
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This 11-minute clip has some real strong language, mature audiences only, from David Goggins. You might not agree, which is fine. Hear what a man striving to tell the truth -- the whole truth -- actually sounds like. Then see what you think of Shapiro's little version. https://youtu.be/75BH7F0AqsI
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@richie9878 An example would be where a blue-eyed blond sorority girl gets a job as "bilingual" because she took two years of Spanish in college and got As, while someone who is obviously Latina, qualified, and is perfectly bilingual gets passed over. That's an example. Because being bilingual from childhood as a result of your heritage is looked down upon.
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@richie9878 You mean you didn't know that bilingualism is looked down upon in America? It shouldn't be, and obviously it has not harmed you, but I know for certain that in the schools bilingual children are routinely presumed to be weaker than other students in English, no matter what the facts are. And Spanish is a great language to know, since so much English vocabulary came from Latin. But a lot of (Anglo-) Americans don't know that. The attitude is based on sheer ignorance. If you have kids, don't let them get tracked as needing remediation.
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@richie9878 Think? I represented kids in schools where it was an issue, and a presumption of a need for intervention had to be rebutted, because it was suggested to the child -- falsely -- that if he were bilingual, then his English was likely impaired in some way. I'm sure you see the problem with that. But as you like.
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"Bending" and the f-word in the same sentence, oops.
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Let's have some "anecdotes" where a white police officer knelt on the neck of a white person who said he was dying and begged for his mother. Or one where a chokehold is applied to a white person who says over and over and over that he can't breathe. Or a case of the wrong house being raided in the middle of the night and a white woman paramedic being shot to death in her bed. Or of a white woman sitting at home with her nephew, and someone thinks that an apparently unlocked front door is so suspicious it justifies shooting her. Or all the times a white person holding a cell phone in broad daylight looked just like a white person holding a gun. Or where a white person was thrown so violently while in the back of a police van that his spine was nearly severed. If these have happened, of course we should know about them. This seems to be taking a long time, to come up with the DATA.
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@paulholland4908 The McWhorter video is interesting, and he is a prominent linguist, so he has qualifications to do research, but the one on Breonna Taylor is a disgrace, it has so much misinformation. No, the police did not announce their office -- they had a no-knock warrant, Taylor herself was not under suspicion, and as a result of that case, such warrants were banned in Louisville. Were you just looking for black people who criticise the protests? Because that was all those two videos had in common. And neither one had documentation in support. I don't follow mass media. I read. I don't even have a television.
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@paulholland4908 Actually, her case only got strong media attention after George Floyd. I had police come to my house, and it sounded like they were going to break down the door. I make no assumptions about how that happened. For all I know, someone who wants to buy my house cheap was trying to scare me and called in a false report.
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@paulholland4908 I called the police, thinking the police at the door were criminals trying to break in. On the phone, the police told me they got a call about a well being issue. I never opened the door, and they stopped pounding as soon as they got word that I called in. It was odd that I was working on a civil rights case at the time, but I suspect they told me the truth -- they got a phony call. Simplest explanation is usually right.
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