“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances - which I also haven't seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these (Palestinian) people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.”
—Rachel Corrie, in an email to her mother, February 28th 2003
In contrast, Ben Shapiro has pretty much always been a piece of shit. But mocking a genuine peace activist like Rachel Corrie is particularly odious. And I just want to add, if you find that a lot of the ideas you support also dovetail with those being supported by Republicans, neoliberal Democrats and “edgy” 🙄 Libertarians, then that might be a cue to re-evaluate and re-examine one or two of your core beliefs.
behold, the funniest twitter thread that was never intended to be a joke, courtesy of ben "too dumb to understand a movie that literally explains itself to you at the end" shapiro
[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: today i am going to tell
Rowling: the one joke
Allison Bailey: the joke! the one joke!
Helen Joyce: dark master is going to tell the one joke!
Jesse Singal: masterful gambit, mommy!
Rowling: Happy Birthing Parent Day to all whosse large gametes were fertilissed resulting in ssmall humanss whose ssex was asssigned by doctorss making mostly lucky guesssess
Joyce: she did it! she told the one joke!
Bailey: the absolute madwoman!!
Joyce: haha i could hear that one joke a million times -- and i have -- and it never gets any less funny!
Joyce: you should take that act on the road!
Rowling: you think?
Joyce: oh yeah definitely, people need to hear that one joke
JK Rowling: [at open mic] hello ladiesss and germsss
Rowling: i'm "Just Kidding" Rowling and thisss
Rowling: iss the anti-woke "you can't ssay that on televisssion anymore due to woke" comedy tour
Rowling: sso Rowling: are there any jewss in the audience tonight
Rowling: but ssserioussly ladiess and germss
Rowling: there'sss a lot of wokiesss out there
Rowling: and i think they might
Rowling: ssound a little like thisss
Rowling: "Happy Birthing Parent Day to all whose large gametessss..."
Rowling: "Happy Birthing Parent Day to all whose large gametess were fertilissed resulting in ssmall humanss whose ssex was asssigned by doctorss"
Ben Shapiro: SIR!!
Shapiro: SIR how dare you SIR that joke SIR is my one joke!!
Rowling: ya sssnooze ya lossse, shapiro!
Shapiro: i have a paper trail SIR going back decades proving ownership, i have told that joke SIR every year at mothers day SIR and fathers day SIR
Shapiro: which by the way SIR today is NEITHER
Shapiro: so that joke doesn't even make sense SIR
Shapiro: owned with facts and logic
Rowling: ha ha get a load of this heckler
Shapiro: SIR!!!
Rowling: kid don't tell me how to do comedy, i don't come down to the sssissster fucking factory and tell you how to do your job [rimshot]
Shapiro: SIR!!!
Shapiro: SIR!!
Rowling: look i'm not saying ben sshapiro is sshort but when he liess around the housse he really liess around the housse [rimshot]
Shapiro: SIR!!!!
Shapiro: SIR!!!! you have the boorish manners of a yalie!
Rowling: [reading newspaper] the reviews are in!
Rowling: "rowling killss in new one joke comedy sspecial"
Rowling: "no sseat left dry asss comedy-loving public pissss their pants in ssusstained debilitating laughter"
Rowling: "you are legally mandated to enjoy it"
Rowling: "we look forward to hearing jk rowling tell her very hilariouss joke for yearss to come"
Rowling: "jk rowling is the kindesst, bravest, warmesst, mosst wonderful human being we've ever known in our life"