Ben Shapiro Rap Video Highlights Right-Wing MAGA Hypocrisy

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People throughout social media joined in a collective cringe final Friday when Canadian white supremcee Tom MacDonald launched the tune “Info” that includes none apart from skilled instantaneous WAP dryer Ben Shapiro.

Now, individuals are commenting that they didn’t have Shapiro busting an excruciatingly Caucasian rhyme in a viral video wasn’t on their Bingo playing cards—contemplating he spent years vehemently denouncing rap music as some kind of ghetto plague sullying the American arts—however should you had been being attentive to the cultural shift amongst neo-conservatives, you’d know that the tighty-righty-whitey brigade has carried out a 180 on its anti-rap stance now that its attempting to enchantment to Black voters and shed its previous, white and rancid picture. (They’re apparently going for a younger, 99% white and rancid identification now.)

I imply, look, if minions of the MAGA world had been self-aware and succesful sufficient of crucial pondering to detect their very own obvious hypocrisy, then MacDonald wouldn’t be out right here rapping about how simply offended his ideological opponents are whereas KK-Krying about rainbow and Black Lives Matter flags changing American flags, which they clearly usually are not doing. (Severely, what’s it with these white and fragile Nice Substitute Principle acolytes that they’ll’t think about the elevated existence of individuals of shade, different religions and even non-traditionally American flags with out additionally imagining the sudden non-existence of white individuals and white people-related issues? For white supremacists, they’ve fairly the inferiority advanced, don’t they?)

“I don’t care if I offend you,” says the man who goes on to cry Scott Adams tears about the way it’s OK to be white and he gained’t let no matter “woke” boogieman exists in his nightmares make him really feel ashamed.

“I’m not ashamed as a result of I’m white/If each Caucasian’s a bigot, I assume each Muslim’s a terrorist, each liberal is true,” MC MAGA Strawman rapped.

And Shapiro is standing proper subsequent to him consigning each phrase about liberal snowflakes as if he didn’t cry for 40-some-odd minutes about males being bullied by a Barbie film.

Once more, contemplating the limitlessness of right-wing shamelessness, it’s not terribly shocking that Shapiro—who as soon as tweeted, “Reality: Rap isn’t music. And should you assume it’s, you’re silly”—is now calling himself “America’s #1 Rapper” on X after sharing a stage with a grilled-out rapping white boy who makes use of Black tradition to demean Black causes. It’s not as offensive as it’s obnoxious.

Right here’s what I wrote beforehand about conservatives and their sudden pseudo-affinity for rappers and rap music:

As a lifelong Hip-Hop head, I have to say it’s been disappointing to observe a few of the rappers I grew up listening to—artists who stood towards the whole lot American conservatism seeks to uphold—willfully align themselves with ideologues of white nationalism who will, in flip, exploit their, at finest, superficial assist with a purpose to current a false picture of racial range with hopes that they’ll proceed being racist whereas not being referred to as racist.

Even now, conservative pundits and politicians deflect to rap music at any time when they want a scapegoat for American violence or to justify their anti-Blackness. A decade or so in the past, rappers like Ice Dice, Killer Mike, Lil Wayne and even Kanye West wouldn’t be within the mentions of outstanding right-ringers, particularly elected officers, except they had been being denounced as thugs and degenerates whose music is poisoning the youth and destroying the Black neighborhood. However now, they’re a minimum of good for a photo-op as a result of the MAGA world is determined for “Black pal” assist.

And that’s why Shapiro is now gleefully celebrating his rap characteristic being #1 on iTunes—as if it’s for any purpose outdoors of the general public’s love of a great trainwreck—and having the unmitigated caucasity to weigh in on the viral beef between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion like anybody ought to care in regards to the rapping rap-hater’s opinion about whose the higher rapper.

However no matter. In 2024, rap haters are going to hate and right-wingers are going to assert everyone seems to be offended too simply after boycotting Bud Gentle for an advert with a trans individual in it, threatening to boycott the NFL over Taylor Swift, threatening to boycott the NFL over athletes kneeling in the course of the nationwide anthem, and crying like salty white tears over the Black nationwide anthem being sung at sporting occasions.

These individuals merely are the overly delicate, perpetually offended snowflakes they declare everybody else is.

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