{"id":1019410,"date":"2021-11-16T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1019410"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:59:19","slug":"watch-top-five-moments-of-ben-shapiros-speech-at-fsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-top-five-moments-of-ben-shapiros-speech-at-fsu\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Top Five Moments Of Ben Shapiro\u2019s Speech At FSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-top-five-moments-of-ben-shapiros-speech-at-fsu%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1019410&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Daily Wire co-founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke at Florida State University on Monday evening, fielding audience questions on topics from transgenderism to the ongoing criminal trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.<\/p>\n<p>The event consisted of a speech from Shapiro and then a lengthy question-and-answer period where members of the audience were given the opportunity to get Shapiro\u2019s opinion and analysis or attempt to stump the conservative commentator and debater. Here are the best moments from the night:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman challenged Shapiro\u2019s views on transgenderism, citing a variety of medical associations that had apparently agreed that sex and gender are completely separable. The woman asked Shapiro why \u201cyou believe you are right\u201d given the \u201cmedical consensus for sex and gender being two different concepts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSex and gender are two different concepts, but gender is tied to biology. One of the big problems you see in the argument in favor of trans rights is this notion that gender and sex are completely separable. They are not completely separable,\u201d Shapiro began. \u201cIf they are completely separable, then this means identifying people by their subjective gender really has no relevance as to whether they are a male or a female. Male and female are biological terms, so using terminology like male and female to describe a self-perception of maleness or femaleness is sort of a bizarre way of arguing whether a thing is a man or a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo here\u2019s my question \u2013 it\u2019s an argument my friend Matt Walsh likes to make \u2013 what is a woman? Define what a woman is without reference to the word woman, please?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The woman accused Shapiro of making a logical fallacy, a red herring, and continued to push back on his argument by returning to the \u201cconsensus\u201d reached by the medical associations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who suggests that gender has no reference to biology, it\u2019s not connected in any way to biology, is just full of s***,\u201d Shapiro eventually said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any doctor denies to me that there is a dichotomy between male and female, a sexual dichotomy between male and female, they are ignorant and they are letting their politics get in the way of their science. Anybody who suggests to you, for example, that there is such a thing as a pregnant male is not a doctor. They are an activist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benshapiro<\/a> and leftist clash over transgenderism <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3apDkh1QY\">pic.twitter.com\/S3apDkh1QY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire co-founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke at Florida State University on Monday evening, fielding audience questions on topics from transgenderism to the ongoing criminal trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.The event consisted of a speech from Shapiro and then a lengthy question-and-answer period where members of the audience were given the opportunity to get Shapiro\u2019s opinion and analysis or attempt to stump the conservative commentator and debater. Here are the best moments from the night:\u201cWhat is a woman?\u201dA woman challenged Shapiro\u2019s views on transgenderism, citing a variety of medical associations that had apparently agreed that sex and gender are completely separable. The woman asked Shapiro why \u201cyou believe you are right\u201d given the \u201cmedical consensus for sex and gender being two different concepts?\u201d\u201cSex and gender are two different concepts, but gender is tied to biology. One of the big problems you see in the argument in favor of trans rights is this notion that gender and sex are completely separable. They are not completely separable,\u201d Shapiro began. \u201cIf they are completely separable, then this means identifying people by their subjective gender really has no relevance as to whether they are a male or a female. Male and female are biological terms, so using terminology like male and female to describe a self-perception of maleness or femaleness is sort of a bizarre way of arguing whether a thing is a man or a woman.\u201d\u201cSo here\u2019s my question \u2013 it\u2019s an argument my friend Matt Walsh likes to make \u2013 what is a woman? Define what a woman is without reference to the word woman, please?\u201d he asked.The woman accused Shapiro of making a logical fallacy, a red herring, and continued to push back on his argument by returning to the \u201cconsensus\u201d reached by the medical associations.\u201cAnyone who suggests that gender has no reference to biology, it\u2019s not connected in any way to biology, is just full of s***,\u201d Shapiro eventually said.\u201cIf any doctor denies to me that there is a dichotomy between male and female, a sexual dichotomy between male and female, they are ignorant and they are letting their politics get in the way of their science. Anybody who suggests to you, for example, that there is such a thing as a pregnant male is not a doctor. They are an activist,\u201d he said.WATCH: @benshapiro and leftist clash over transgenderism pic.twitter.com\/S3apDkh1QY\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 16, 2021Is banning Critical Race Theory in schools anti-free speech?A male student asked Shapiro if Republicans\u2019 support for banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory from schools contradicted their belief in free speech. The man\u2019s question was based off of legislation currently working its way through the Florida state legislature, however, Shapiro gave a general answer to the question, explaining when Critical Race Theory is an acceptable topic of education, and where and how it should be limited. Shapiro said:It depends on what level of education we are talking about. If we are talking about the idea that Critical Race Theory can be taught as one of many theories on college campuses, I have no problem with it. Marxism is taught at one of many theories on college campuses. If the idea is we are going to be teaching Critical Race Theory, which is not taught as one of many theories, it\u2019s taught as a framework for understanding the world and it is a lens through which we are to view history, this is something that the founders of Critical Race Theory openly acknowledge. They suggest that Critical Race Theory has a praxis component, meaning it\u2019s a practice component, that is designed in order to indoctrinate kids into a particular type of thinking about how America\u2019s institutions work. Do I think that the taxpayers of the state of Florida have an obligation to subsidize the indoctrination of their children in that? No. And I think that public education as an institution is dedicated not merely to the idea that you send your kids to school and the teachers dump whatever they want on your kids. I think the idea is the parents delegate their power to educate their children to the states via the public schools, and then they have the authority and should have the authority to determine what framework is being taught. And the anti-American framework of Critical Race Theory which is unrooted in actual history ought not be taught in America\u2019s public schools..@benshapiro answers the question on if it&#8217;s anti-free speech to ban critical race theory pic.twitter.com\/9OA29nX9Ub\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 16, 2021Shapiro Destroys Marxist studentShapiro pressed one of his questioners of the night, another male student, to reconsider his heroes after the student admitted to touting a flag promoting former soviet dictators Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin before the event.\u201cIf you\u2019re going to go Marxist, then please, find a better Marxist to emulate than Lenin or Stalin, mass murderers,\u201d Shapiro said.The student responded claiming that \u201cthe Soviet Union, during World War II, saved the world.\u201d\u201cIf it had not been for Stalin, World War II never would have started because it was the Molotov\u2013Ribbentrop Pact that allowed the Nazi Germans to believe they could invade Eastern Europe,\u201d Shapiro corrected him..@benshapiro questions a student who repped a Stalin\/Lenin flag: &#8220;If you&#8217;re gonna go marxist, then please find a better marxist to emulate than Lenin or Stalin. Mass murderers.&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/V7M9lr4Nxf\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 16, 2021Shapiro analyzes ongoing trials over Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud ArberyAnother student asked Shapiro for his analysis of the ongoing trials of Rittenhouse and over the death of Arbery. Shapiro demurred on making a prediction of the outcome in either case, \u201cI\u2019m not going to try and predict what will happen because you cannot predict what juries are going to do.\u201dShapiro opined on the Rittenhouse trial first, asserting that Rittenhouse should be acquitted.\u201cHe clearly acted in self-defense,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cthat doesn\u2019t mean I would send my 17-year-old over to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in order to protect property and provide medical aid to people, but it does mean that the shootings that he committed were in self-defense. The evidence is pretty much as clear as day on that one.\u201dShapiro then gave a legal analysis of the case against Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan over the killing of Arbery last year.\u201cThe main question in the Arbery case is going to come down to, legally speaking, whether the McDaniels, who are the defendants in this particular case, whether they had the capacity under the citizens arrest law of Georgia to arrest Arbery,\u201d Shapiro said.\u201cThe question is going to be whether that [attempted] citizens arrest was lawful or not,\u201d Shapiro says. \u201cOnce you get down to the end of it \u2026 where they\u2019re road blocking him and they are trying to keep him from running away and Arbery runs between the cars, now you essentially have a case of almost mutual self-defense, right? It\u2019s actually a really terrible case in which Arbery sees these guys chasing him in trucks \u2013 why\u2019s he going to pull over, right? \u2013 and so he tries to run, he goes for the gun, they shoot him.\u201d\u201cFrom their perspective, they\u2019re trying to give a citizens arrest, they have to shoot him in self-defense. From his perspective, he\u2019s trying to run away and they\u2019re blocking him and trying to falsely imprison him and so he\u2019s acting in self-defense,\u201d he continued. \u201cthe only way to solve that legal conundrum is whether they were in, in fact, under the belief that they were attempting to arrest him, a citizens arrest, and they had good cause. It has to be by the preponderance of the evidence.\u201d.@benshapiro gives his thoughts on the Arbery and Rittenhouse trials pic.twitter.com\/EPSou76IMB\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 16, 2021Shapiro is 5 feet 9 inches. Fact check: true.One of the funniest moments of the night came when a college student accused Shapiro of lying about his height, claiming that Shapiro is actually 5 feet 5 inches tall. Shapiro brought the student, who happened to be 5 feet 9 inches like Shapiro, up on stage to stand beside him as the audience erupted in laughter.Can confirm, @benshapiro is in fact 5&#8217;9 pic.twitter.com\/Dw79Psckpx\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 16, 2021Related: \u2018Greatest. Moment. Evah.\u2019: Critic Challenges Shapiro On His Height. Shapiro Calls Him Up On StageThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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