Ana Kasparian Debates Ben Shapiro: Highlights

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5. Ben Shapiro Like Most "Conservatives"

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Engages in sophistry in order to "win" debates.
Their debate style is to overwhelm with words and word salad, change definitions ( like "freedom" ) and when trapped move the goal posts.
They also like to construct strawman arguments when pushed to the wall. The Chamber of Commerce likes to book these speakers in order to give intellectual "cover" to their ideologies that they lost in academia a long time ago; paid intellectual shills like Dinesh D'Souza, Shapiro and the late Milton Friedman are supported by right wing billionaires and think tanks to make the rounds to defend Capitalism. But you never see them debate with anybody with any debating skill lest they and their ideas are exposed for the shams that they are. When you examine their ideas, you see how empty and invalid they are.
Case in point: Milton Friedman. A hotshot debater in his time, you now see many writers taking his ideas apart (now that he's dead) and how they debunked his debating style: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/how-milton-friedman-was-wrong-but-still-won-arguments-2f3018dca607
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-dumbest-idea-milton-friedman/?sh=60514354870e

If you notice, nobody is citing Friedman too much anymore.