I occasioned to watch a video where a man was threatened with physical violence for verbalizing his controversial opinion which he calls ‘fact’. Fact or not, it’s a Free Speech issue to me, and his being on a televised debate was a profitable venture embarked upon by the business-minded people who invited him. Controversy ‘sells’ and makes for good ratings. Therefore it makes sense that the two polar opinion-bearers are placed next to each other. That being one Zoey Tur and Ben Shapiro. Zoey, a Transgender, threatened Ben with a trip to the hospital, cupping one hand on the back of Ben’s neck while doing so. Ben is hardly the size of Zoey and small in stature in comparison. With dripping zealotry, Zoey on several occasions referred to Ben as “little man”.
Threatening anyone to be 'sent home in an ambulance' is 'Hate Speech' and in my opinion, as I have no proof, was planned by Zoey and maybe with the blessings of producers. Zoey not suffering immediate consequences for that threat of violence is at the very least unacceptable. One person going home in an ambulance and one going home to a jail cell for an 18-hour nap and a slap on the wrist is crazy on so many levels.
Zoey’s opinion is popular and money in this country buys justice, especially within the insulated communities from which Zoey finds protection, and is typical of the facto-phobic societal sewage in which they are swimming. The reverse would probably also hold true had the tables been turned and Zoey went to the hospital and Ben to jail.
Bullies of any kind, Left or Right, are not impressive in a Free Speech arena. Mr. Oduolowu, the man who distanced himself from Mr. Shapiro in this setting but was voiceless when Ben was being threatened, is lame, as were the other guests and host. Mr. Oduolowu’s knee-jerk lowbrow rhetoric, about 'not being with him' (in so many words) smacked of cowardice. Mr. Oduolowu‘s argument should rise or fall on its own merit and not be a ‘deception of guilt by association’.
Apparently having loving conversations, a first cousin to respectful discussions, doesn't sell as many tickets to the rating melange. Going where the money is and going where the respect is, need not be diametrically opposed. I'm not taking arguments from either side here. I'm talking about Free Speech in a non-violent dichotomy, which is all about the interior climate and is never anyone else's fault. Hang up the Blamethrowers.
Here’s the YouTube video, which is a ‘mix’ of different Ben Shapiro showings with an obvious bias in his favor, considering who posted it and how it was titled. Please don’t think I am siding with anyone. I subscribe to Live and Let Live. I know several people who are Trans Bender and look, I’ll call them whatever they want to be called. I had a legal name change many years ago, and if someone insisted on calling me by my old name, I would respectfully request they not do so. But of course, I would not act like an assaultive felon if someone said 'whatever' and expressed a childish opinion about it.