| From | Ben Shapiro <[email protected]> |
| Subject | Cardi B, Lizzo, Stupidity, and Fatness. Stop Judging! |
| Date | June 28, 2023 11:53 PM |
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Ben Shapiro
The federal government, our media, and our society at large have decided that it is very, very important we promote fatness, stupidity, and laziness.
There’s a fascinating piece by Dr. Ryan Burge, a professor and religious scholar, in which he examines data showing that as education increases, religious practice or religious belief also increases to a certain extent, which is essentially the reverse of what we’ve been told.
Burge states, “Those who are the most likely to attend services weekly are those with a graduate degree.” And that correlates with income. So, the more educated you are and more income you have, the more likely you are to attend church on a regular basis, which is precisely the reverse of what society and the media tell you.
What the media tell you is that it’s the most educated among us who never go to church, and it’s the least educated among us who always go to church. That is not true.
The identifiers of success in American life — educated, married with children, earning a high income — correlate with religious practice.
One way to read this is that the church needs to be more welcoming and it needs to find ways to reach out to people who are not married, people who don’t have middle-class income, and people who are not college educated.
But there is a different way to read this as well: The rules that the elite of our society — marital elite, the parental elite, the income elite — have applied to themselves are very different than the rules they have promulgated to the rest of society.
They have decided the measure of true virtue is to say the opposite. They send their children to private school, they get married, they get an education, and they follow the rules of a traditional, religious society, but then they say, “Because I’m an elite, I am going to promulgate a new morality for everyone else.”
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The dirty secret about this is, it’s a form of ugly paternalism in which people at the top are saying that people at the bottom are incapable of rising. And that’s not true. The same things that got people to the top are the things that can take anyone to the top.
But now we have a society dedicated to the opposite proposition, that there is some sort of injustice in the measuring stick itself. Thus, we are no longer even willing to aim for what we all know to be good and true.
Once you remove the measuring stick, you end up with chaos. You don’t end up with equality; you end up with turmoil and chaos and unsuccess because you are subsidizing lack of success by removing the measuring stick for success.
We have decided at the elite levels of American government and American media to obliterate all of those rules and pretend we have done somebody some good. But it’s precisely the opposite. The precise opposite of what brings success is what our society promotes.
Here’s an example: Cardi B.
She is a perfect example of virtually everything wrong with our society. She is a rapper and former stripper who bragged on tape about drugging and robbing men.
She also happens to be a person who is deemed by our society as the height of sex appeal, that sexual satisfaction is supposed to be attained by acting like or imitating Cardi B.
But the reality is that when Cardi B lives Cardi B’s values, she ends up very unhappy.
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Cardi B is married to a person named Offset. These two lovebirds married one another and they’ve had a rather fraught relationship. Their marriage is the model for millions of people in the United States. We used to model in the United States a solid marriage that lasted for an entire lifetime in which you were dedicated to the raising of your children.
But Cardi B’s marriage is now splashed across the media. So the latest news about their beautiful marriage is that she took to her Twitter Space to address her husband, who had claimed she slept with another man.
By the way, they have two kids.
He later took it down, but she responded in her Twitter space, saying, “First of all, let me say, you can’t accuse me of all the things you know that you are guilty of. Sing it with me, y’all. And I see that it is easy for you to blame everything on me.”
This is what the upper echelons of our culture present as high culture. This is an example of what is promoted by every major media outlet in the United States. It is promoted by every single major streaming service in the United States. It is promoted as the height of American culture.
You are not supposed to say things like, “This stuff is ugly and bad and her music sucks.” You’re not allowed to make those kinds of statements without people angrily arguing against you. Instead, we are supposed to pretend that it’s a form of female empowerment and that people who follow its diktats are likely to lead happier lives.
But Cardi B is not leading a happy marital life. The people who are leading happy married lives are boring fuddy-duddies, while the people our society is promoting as models for marriage are people like Cardi B.
It’s a society that promotes stupidity. It’s a society that promotes failed marriages.
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There is an ideal. It’s not insulting to people who don’t meet the ideal to point out that the ideal exists.
The same thing exists in the physical realm.
We have decided that it’s very mean and very bad to point out that people should be in shape.
Now, most people do not form their values based on politics. They get their values from either the local institutions in which they participate or from the surrounding milieu, which is usually social media.
Cardi B has a huge number of fans and followers because she is in the cultural realm. And the same is true of Lizzo.
The Washington Post published a piece this week titled, “What the Fat Shamers Don’t Get About Lizzo.” The writer opines:
_I understand why Lizzo took a beat from Twitter. Last month, the Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate artist — a classically trained flute-playing rapper, singer, songwriter, actress and fashion mogul — was under attack (again!) from internet trolls bombarding her with vicious messages about her weight. This time, it got so bad she locked down her Twitter account, writing, ‘Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting.’_
_Lizzo embraces inclusivity for everyone who has a body. She chants the mantra of body positivity for all humans, not just the fat ones._
Here’s the truth: If you want a path to failure, you should follow the pathway of “empowerment” and “self-acceptance.” The best people are people who are always striving to better themselves and to better the people around them. You should not feel empowered just being you.
You shouldn’t wake up in the morning feeling, I am my best me. You are not your best you. There is a better you out there and it’s just a short distance away, if you strive to change yourself.
When it comes to the treadmill of life, the treadmill is moving underneath you. If you are standing still, you’re moving backwards; either you’re moving forward or you’re falling off the treadmill.
The media claim Lizzo is a beautiful, beautiful woman. She’s got to be at least 150 pounds overweight. But this is the new standard.
It’s not a recipe for your success to imitate Lizzo’s actions.
But our culture tells us that to even say such things is judgmental and very bad.
**Ben Shapiro**
Editor Emeritus,
The Daily Wire
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The federal government, our media, and our society at large have decided that it is very, very important we promote fatness, stupidity, and laziness.
There’s a fascinating piece by Dr. Ryan Burge, a professor and religious scholar, in which he examines data showing that as education increases, religious practice or religious belief also increases to a certain extent, which is essentially the reverse of what we’ve been told.
Burge states, “Those who are the most likely to attend services weekly are those with a graduate degree.” And that correlates with income. So, the more educated you are and more income you have, the more likely you are to attend church on a regular basis, which is precisely the reverse of what society and the media tell you.
What the media tell you is that it’s the most educated among us who never go to church, and it’s the least educated among us who always go to church. That is not true.
The identifiers of success in American life — educated, married with children, earning a high income — correlate with religious practice.
One way to read this is that the church needs to be more welcoming and it needs to find ways to reach out to people who are not married, people who don’t have middle-class income, and people who are not college educated.
But there is a different way to read this as well: The rules that the elite of our society — marital elite, the parental elite, the income elite — have applied to themselves are very different than the rules they have promulgated to the rest of society.
They have decided the measure of true virtue is to say the opposite. They send their children to private school, they get married, they get an education, and they follow the rules of a traditional, religious society, but then they say, “Because I’m an elite, I am going to promulgate a new morality for everyone else.”
Latest Releases:
[]([link removed])
[Watch]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
[Watch]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
[Watch]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
[Watch]([link removed])
The dirty secret about this is, it’s a form of ugly paternalism in which people at the top are saying that people at the bottom are incapable of rising. And that’s not true. The same things that got people to the top are the things that can take anyone to the top.
But now we have a society dedicated to the opposite proposition, that there is some sort of injustice in the measuring stick itself. Thus, we are no longer even willing to aim for what we all know to be good and true.
Once you remove the measuring stick, you end up with chaos. You don’t end up with equality; you end up with turmoil and chaos and unsuccess because you are subsidizing lack of success by removing the measuring stick for success.
We have decided at the elite levels of American government and American media to obliterate all of those rules and pretend we have done somebody some good. But it’s precisely the opposite. The precise opposite of what brings success is what our society promotes.
Here’s an example: Cardi B.
She is a perfect example of virtually everything wrong with our society. She is a rapper and former stripper who bragged on tape about drugging and robbing men.
She also happens to be a person who is deemed by our society as the height of sex appeal, that sexual satisfaction is supposed to be attained by acting like or imitating Cardi B.
But the reality is that when Cardi B lives Cardi B’s values, she ends up very unhappy.
[]([link removed])
Cardi B is married to a person named Offset. These two lovebirds married one another and they’ve had a rather fraught relationship. Their marriage is the model for millions of people in the United States. We used to model in the United States a solid marriage that lasted for an entire lifetime in which you were dedicated to the raising of your children.
But Cardi B’s marriage is now splashed across the media. So the latest news about their beautiful marriage is that she took to her Twitter Space to address her husband, who had claimed she slept with another man.
By the way, they have two kids.
He later took it down, but she responded in her Twitter space, saying, “First of all, let me say, you can’t accuse me of all the things you know that you are guilty of. Sing it with me, y’all. And I see that it is easy for you to blame everything on me.”
This is what the upper echelons of our culture present as high culture. This is an example of what is promoted by every major media outlet in the United States. It is promoted by every single major streaming service in the United States. It is promoted as the height of American culture.
You are not supposed to say things like, “This stuff is ugly and bad and her music sucks.” You’re not allowed to make those kinds of statements without people angrily arguing against you. Instead, we are supposed to pretend that it’s a form of female empowerment and that people who follow its diktats are likely to lead happier lives.
But Cardi B is not leading a happy marital life. The people who are leading happy married lives are boring fuddy-duddies, while the people our society is promoting as models for marriage are people like Cardi B.
It’s a society that promotes stupidity. It’s a society that promotes failed marriages.
Latest Episode:
[]([link removed])
Ep. 1756 - Rise Of The Pagans
Joe Biden says he’s Catholic but thinks abortion is mostly fine; the Supreme Court rules against the independent state legislature theory; and a second Biden whistleblower emerges.
[LISTEN NOW]([link removed])
There is an ideal. It’s not insulting to people who don’t meet the ideal to point out that the ideal exists.
The same thing exists in the physical realm.
We have decided that it’s very mean and very bad to point out that people should be in shape.
Now, most people do not form their values based on politics. They get their values from either the local institutions in which they participate or from the surrounding milieu, which is usually social media.
Cardi B has a huge number of fans and followers because she is in the cultural realm. And the same is true of Lizzo.
The Washington Post published a piece this week titled, “What the Fat Shamers Don’t Get About Lizzo.” The writer opines:
_I understand why Lizzo took a beat from Twitter. Last month, the Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate artist — a classically trained flute-playing rapper, singer, songwriter, actress and fashion mogul — was under attack (again!) from internet trolls bombarding her with vicious messages about her weight. This time, it got so bad she locked down her Twitter account, writing, ‘Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting.’_
_Lizzo embraces inclusivity for everyone who has a body. She chants the mantra of body positivity for all humans, not just the fat ones._
Here’s the truth: If you want a path to failure, you should follow the pathway of “empowerment” and “self-acceptance.” The best people are people who are always striving to better themselves and to better the people around them. You should not feel empowered just being you.
You shouldn’t wake up in the morning feeling, I am my best me. You are not your best you. There is a better you out there and it’s just a short distance away, if you strive to change yourself.
When it comes to the treadmill of life, the treadmill is moving underneath you. If you are standing still, you’re moving backwards; either you’re moving forward or you’re falling off the treadmill.
The media claim Lizzo is a beautiful, beautiful woman. She’s got to be at least 150 pounds overweight. But this is the new standard.
It’s not a recipe for your success to imitate Lizzo’s actions.
But our culture tells us that to even say such things is judgmental and very bad.
**Ben Shapiro**
Editor Emeritus,
The Daily Wire
Top five headlines:
- [Religion Has Become A Luxury Good]([link removed])
- [White House Pushes “Bidenomics”]([link removed])
- [Hunter Attorney Admits: Text Shaking Down Chinese Businessman Real]([link removed])
- [Kevin McCarthy Threatens Impeachment Proceedings Against AG Merrick Garland]([link removed])
- [Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Casts First Transgender Actor In A Major Role]([link removed])
- [Russia Tries to Restore Control, as Putin Blasts Mutineers]([link removed])
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