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Ben Shapiro makes D-Day about YouTube

Truly important stuff here.

 

David Covucci

Tech

Posted on Jun 6, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 11:08 am CDT

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe, a solemn day to remember that, hey, there are things more important than your buddy’s YouTube channel getting demonetized because he used that platform to sell shirts with gay slurs on them.

For the uninitiated: A writer for Vox recently called out YouTube for the harassment he was receiving from Steven Crowder, saying that the comedian/conservative pundit called him slurs in videos, which violated YouTube’s policies. YouTube demonetized his channel as punishment.

What does this have to do with soldiers storming the Omaha Beach in a hail of gunfire on June 6, 1945?

Glad you asked.

“75 years ago: young Americans braved Nazi fire on beaches to liberate a continent and defend Constitutional rights,” far-right provocateur Ben Shapiro wrote. “Today: young Americans whine about people making mean jokes about them on YouTube and demand censorship.”

Damn. Makes you think. If only there were young Americans serving in war zones right now, as well as for, oh, the past 20 years

Shapiro, himself, as many pointed out, advocated for those wars that he’s now complaining about Americans not fighting in.

There was a whole other level of hypocrisy and irony in that Shapiro was the one whining about YouTube on Twitter.

“The self-own here is that on D-Day, this millennial is whining about YouTube,” conservative writer Christian Vanderbrouk tweeted in response.

Thankfully, all those veterans fought for Shapiro’s right to make D-Day all about himself.

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*First Published: Jun 6, 2019, 10:49 am CDT