Ben Shapiro: When the Hateful Think They Are the Virtuous

[rangerrebew]

 Ben Shapiro: When the Hateful Think They Are the Virtuous
By Ben Shapiro | February 10, 2021 | 10:25am EST

 

This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. The title: "What can you do about the Trumpites next door?" Heffernan wasn't lamenting neighbors who had tagged her house with pro-Trump graffiti, or who had participated in the Jan. 6 riots, or who had even held an election watch party and turned the music up too loud. No, Heffernan was lamenting the travails of living next door to Trump supporters...who had cleared her driveway of snow.

Heffernan writes, "Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway...just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job." This simple act launched Heffernan into a journey of angst and rage.

https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/commentary/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-when-hateful-think-they-are-virtuous

[roamer_1]

Woe to them that call good evil and evil good... That put darkness for light and light for darkness... That put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter... Them that are wise and prudent in their own sight... Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine , and men strong to drink booze, that justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.

That's something like Isaiah 5 right there... I could not understand this in any great way until I started understanding the liberal mind. I get this same thing outta my whacko-liberal sister. And as it has grown to greatness in our society in general, it has become glaringly apparent how bent around the axle such folks come to be.

How the heck do you criticize your neighbor for doing you a favor without even being asked? Who has your best interest in mindfulness and has taken action to see to it.

How ungrateful can you be to let petty politics stand in the way of that!

[Polly Ticks]

I kind of have to agree with Ben here:

Heffernan's neighbors should immediately pile as much snow as humanly possible back onto her driveway, hose it off, and let it freeze.

[PeteS in CA]

When the Hateful Think They Are the Virtuous

https://www.creators.com/read/ben-shapiro/02/21/when-the-hateful-think-they-are-the-virtuous

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In order to justify the answer she wants to give — as little thanks as possible, because, after all, these are Evil Trumpites — Heffernan proceeds to speculate as to her neighbors' motives: Perhaps they only cleared her driveway because she and they were white. Or perhaps this whole event was a reminder that members of evil groups sometimes do good — she compares them to the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and the Nazis. If she treats her neighbors with too much decency, she reminds herself, that might make her like an upper-middle-class family from France who collaborated with the Nazis and lamented the Nazis' defeat because of their commitment to being "polite."
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The nasty snootiness Heffernan evidences is all too common these days. Heffernan obviously judges her neighbors not on the basis of what she knows about them but on stereotypes she holds about all Trump voters. When faced with the reality that those who disagree with her can be nice and decent people, she simply dismisses the possibility altogether, justifying her own viciousness by referencing their supposedly radical political beliefs. Which, of course, makes her the villainess in this particular morality play.

No good deed goes un-reviled by Proggies when a Proggie disagrees with the good-deed-doer's political or religious views.

[Hoodat]

Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints.

[Fishrrman]

I have a suggestion as to what Virginia Heffernan can do about the evil Trumpist neighbors next door:

She can buy them out, paying them 200% of the market value of their property as an inducement to leave.

I'll reckon there's a good chance the Trumpists may take up an offer like that...