{"id":123061,"date":"2021-02-10T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123061"},"modified":"2021-02-10T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:43:24","slug":"shapiro-when-the-hateful-think-they-are-the-virtuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-when-the-hateful-think-they-are-the-virtuous\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: When the Hateful Think They Are the Virtuous"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fshapiro-when-the-hateful-think-they-are-the-virtuous%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=123061&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-143627810.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. The title: \u201cWhat can you do about the Trumpites next door?\u201d Heffernan wasn\u2019t 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 \u2026 who had cleared her driveway of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Heffernan writes, \u201cTrumpites next door to our pandemic getaway \u2026 just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.\u201d This simple act launched Heffernan into a journey of angst and rage. \u201cHow am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?\u201d she laments. \u201cI realize I owe them thanks \u2014 and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro \u2014 but how much thanks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">In order to justify the answer she wants to give \u2014 as little thanks as possible, because, after all, these are Evil Trumpites \u2014 Heffernan proceeds to speculate as to her neighbors\u2019 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 \u2014 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\u2019 defeat because of their commitment to being \u201cpolite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heffernan seethes with the agony of cognitive dissonance. \u201cMy neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans,\u201d she writes. \u201cThey kept him in business with their support. But the plowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">In the end, Heffernan\u2019s solution is to be nice \u2014 but not&nbsp;<em>that&nbsp;<\/em>nice. She will offer a \u201cwave and a thanks,\u201d but she is \u201cnot ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet.\u201d She\u2019s unwilling to give her neighbors \u201cabsolution,\u201d ignoring the fact that they have not asked for absolution, nor do they require absolution for the great sin of voting differently and&nbsp;<em>clearing her driveway of snow&nbsp;<\/em>. \u201cFree driveway work, as nice as it is,\u201d Heffernan states, \u201cis just not the same currency as justice and truth.\u201d The only way she\u2019ll be able to truly treat her neighbors decently is if they recognize \u201cthe truth about the Trump administration\u201d and work \u201cfor justice for all those whom the administration harmed.\u201d Then, she\u2019ll be decent to her neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Heffernan\u2019s neighbors should immediately pile as much snow as humanly possible back onto her driveway, hose it off and let it freeze.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s too blind to see it. These days, tens of millions of Americans are. And so, the social fabric continues to shred, all in the name of depraved, unearned moral superiority.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shapiro-this-is-not-normal\">More from Ben Shapiro: This Is Not Normal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. 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