{"id":849580,"date":"2021-10-05T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=849580"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:14:26","slug":"watch-ben-shapiro-debated-ana-kasparian-here-are-the-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ben-shapiro-debated-ana-kasparian-here-are-the-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Ben Shapiro Debated Ana Kasparian. Here Are The Highlights"},"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-ben-shapiro-debated-ana-kasparian-here-are-the-highlights%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=849580&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\/10\/Ben-Shapiro.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro debated Ana Kasparian Monday night, covering topics such as education, Critical Race Theory, and the news media.<\/p>\n<p>Kasparian, who cohosts the popular progressive online news show \u201cThe Young Turks,\u201d offered her perspective as progressive pundit against Shapiro\u2019s conservative viewpoint. The two commentators found plenty to disagree on while headlining the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry\u2019s annual dinner. The Daily Wire has compiled some highlights from the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shapiro has \u2018not thought one day\u2019 about leaving California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since Shapiro emigrated from California last year, the Daily Wire\u2019s editor emeritus has \u201cnot thought one day about that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the best decisions that I have ever made for my family. We are overjoyed. Florida is a wonderful state,\u201d Shapiro explained. He said that he chose to live in Florida in part because of its tax rates \u2013 Florida does not tax income \u2013 and its vibrant Jewish community. The main breaking point with California came over lifestyle, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife for years was saying, \u2018yeah, we\u2019re paying higher taxes, but you make a lot of money, so, you know, that\u2019s fine.\u2019 But the problem is you don\u2019t get any of the public services back in California,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>California for years has struggled to deal with a growing homelessness crisis that has increased crime and drug use in suburban communities. Shapiro said he would walk out his front door to see a homeless man shooting up heroine. He added that The Daily Wire\u2019s offices had to be boarded up during the protests and riots over George Floyd last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen [The Daily Wire] left\u201d California, Shapiro added, \u201cwe thought we were going to lose half the people working for us. Instead, I think over 90% of our people said, \u2018You\u2019re going? Get us out of here.\u2019 Everybody wanted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.4702702702703\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It was one of the best decisions that I have ever made for my family&#8221; <br \/>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benshapiro<\/a> on leaving California <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7bZvzrm8lL\">pic.twitter.com\/7bZvzrm8lL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1445408439698612243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>School choice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first point of contention came over school choice and the value of private education. Kasparian began by arguing that the United States should ban private education altogether. Finland \u201chas the top education model, and they have completely banned private education,\u201d Kasparian said. \u201cI would do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Finland has not explicitly banned private schools, the country has all but eliminated them. Schools in Finland are barred from charging tuition fees, and each one is financed through taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, Finland is not the United States,\u201d Shapiro responded. Comparing Finland\u2019s educational system to that of the United States, then, is flawed, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Relative to Finland, \u201cthe United States has an incredibly diverse population,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cThe diverse population encompasses and enormous number of people who have very different beliefs about how education ought to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo suggest that any national standard of education will not only please all of those people but prove to be successful in such a wide variety of circumstances for some 330 million people, we\u2019ve tried this with a radically increasing federal education budget over the course of the last 30 years and what we\u2019ve got is failing public schools all over the United States,\u201d he continued. The exceptions to the general decline are \u201cin areas specific local areas where there have been attempts to take back control locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ben Shapiro vs. Ana Kasparian on school choice\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkDIZMlHzks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Critical Race Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next debate topic began as a discussion over the culture war and morphed into a debate over the scope and influence of Critical Race Theory (CRT), which asserts that systemic racism continues to influence U.S. institutions and determine social outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Kasparian began time claiming that culture war topics such as CRT are often \u201cmanufactured as a distraction.\u201d CRT is a graduate level course that is not being taught in elementary school classrooms, and the outrage over it from parents is a manifestation of other underlying societal issues, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous and a massive distraction that, I think, is intentionally meant to be a distraction from what people are really feeling frustrated about: the precariousness of their work lives, the fact that people feel overworked, that they have no control over the work that they\u2019re doing, that they feel alienated over the work that they\u2019re doing,\u201d Kasparian said.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro began by pointing out that a \u201cvery boiled down version\u201d of CRT is being taught in elementary schools through authors such as Ibram X. Kendi, whose book is assigned reading in some elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are having elementary school students who are having to check off boxes with regard to their race and then explain to each other whether they are historically privileged or not in fourth or fifth grade, that\u2019s a very dumbed down version of Critical Race Theory,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a relevant issue when you have Terry McAuliffe, who is running for governor of Virginia, literally saying in open debate that it should not be parents who are making the educational decisions for their children, it should be the people in education,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat is a culture war issue that, I think, is of key importance to people who have kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.0704225352113\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benshapiro<\/a> and Ana Kasparian debate critical race theory <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XgJuFGlynp\">pic.twitter.com\/XgJuFGlynp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1445404547669704719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Fake news and the future of the media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asked about a return to objective, fact-based journalism, Shapiro said that the development of that kind of journalism is a relatively modern invention. Most journalism throughout the history of the United States came from writers and reporters who were also open about their opinions and biases, and often wrote editorials outside of their reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a difference between an objective standard that you apply to how a story is being reported and being an objective reporter, meaning you have no politics at all. I think, frankly, if you want to reinstall some institutional trust it would be good for reporters to say here\u2019s who I voted for and here are also the facts that I am reporting on,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cOtherwise, it ends up being a \u2018gotcha,\u2019 right? \u2018I see how you\u2019re reporting that, I know what you\u2019re doing, I know what you really think about this story.\u2019 So that\u2019s a major issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservative pundit then slammed the idea of \u201cinstitutional gatekeepers\u201d that determine which outlets are trusted sources of news and which should be minimized or deplatformed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big players have all the incentives to ensure that they are the ones to maintain their access via the gates,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cOne of my great fears with some sites that we\u2019ve been very successful with, like Facebook, is that reestablishing the idea that there are \u2018trusted news sources\u2019 and those are all, coincidentally, legacy media sources means that everybody who is not a legacy media source\u201d is shut out of the market.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0931677018634\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benshapiro<\/a> and Ana Kasparian weigh in on the political media landscape in America <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a08sCEYyEM\">pic.twitter.com\/a08sCEYyEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1445403633638592518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro debated Ana Kasparian Monday night, covering topics such as education, Critical Race Theory, and the news media.Kasparian, who cohosts the popular progressive online news &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}