Why do commentators on the Left avoid debating Ben Shapiro? Here is the answer:
[Girl asking] "I like the shirt I thought you'd dig it the first time I see us our press is overrated sure it will be a very great day so a lot of people especially here feel like you're just a fantastic debater destroyer of liberals and their arguments and that's not something I've actually seen a lot in practice I've seen you out debate college students so I've seen you out to bake college students but you know there are college students if you were debating nineteen year old you I have no question that nineteen year old you get absolutely destroyed and I see you have kind of fireside chit chats with you know Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson and you're not really debating them in a substantial way either they have differences of opinions but I think you more focus on where you agree than where you disagree so my question is a if this is correct and there are some exceptions like the political debate last year why do you think this is are liberals afraid to debate you are you afraid to debate them are there a lot of examples of really great head-to-head debates that I'm just missing..."
[Ben Shapiro answers] "...sure yeah I mean if you go back there that I did a series of debates in in Seattle with a group of folks from the local head of the n-double a-c-p writer for the Seattle stranger on race we did a debate with some common experts on gun rights I mean I'm I've literally spent my entire life have my political life having conversations with folks on the left in fact those are the conversations that I enjoy the most as far as why they're all these tapes of me destroying liberals at college campuses it´s because college students apparently have more courage than a lot
of professional political pundits who don´t
actually want to get on a stage... I´ve invited an
inordinate number of folks on the left onto the Sunday special specifically because I actually prefer as opposed to the debate format the discussion format because it allows you to get a little vit deeper write debate formats themselves are built for how do you destroy the other side how do you undermine a point
right and that´s fun I don´t think it´s necessarily the most productive conversation and as you see like when somebody gets up and they ask about nationalized health care
I´m happy to have a conversation back and forth in a substantive way about health care looking at the different priorities and how the reflect and in fact you actually go back and you watch all the speeches that I´ve men on college campuses I would say that there are many more exchanges of me talking somebody on the left in respectful manner then there are tapes of me quote-unquote destroying anybody you know those are the ones that you´ll like to watch because they´re more fun but that doesn´t mean that´s what´s actually happening on a daily basis."