I don't always agree with Ben but on this, he is absolutely right...
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This time you get a cookie Ben
He could have left out the “unspeakable” part, we are speaking about it after all. We get it Ben, you don’t like mass shootings. Neither do we, so you don’t have to signal your morality to us by using pearl-clutching adjectives.
It used to be a matter of style to avoid unnecessary adjectives, especially in journalistic writing where it can also be a matter of objectivity. Now, in our post-modern bullshit era, unnecessary adjectives are used as an avenue for editorializing. For example, commie journalists can’t just say “Trump’s claims of election fraud”, they have to inject their own opinion with an adjective: “Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud”. Think of how often they do this kind of crap: “debunked”, “hateful”, “bigoted”, “conspiratorial”. They can’t just report the facts, they have to weasel in their own qualifiers.
Yes, I used adjectives such as “pearl-clutching”, “commie”, “post-modern”, and “bullshit”. I’m not a journalist.
Excellent comment.
I guess some tumblr girl downvoted
‘but if I don’t use over-the-top adjectives such as “unspeakable” then people won’t know how good and empathetic I am’
Come on, Mark. It's just an expression, like unthinkable. Is that one off limits too, because it's possible to think about anything? Maybe instead of "unspeakable" he could have used the fresh, vibrant descriptor "bad".
I know some grammarians who like only short, punchy sentences of as few words as possible. They consider nearly ALL adjectives and adverbs unnecessary—which in a sense they technically are. Adjectives and adverbs are seldom an absolute requirement; pronouns never are. (That's how all "pronoun wars" can be won by the normal, sane people: just don't use them in the presence of the pronoun obsessed. :)
Each to his own. IMHO modifiers, judiciously applied, add color and life to writing.
Good insight on the bullshit practice of sticking emotional modifiers in supposedly neutral news items. That crap drives us all crazy. It's not up to some wobbleheaded news-reading mannequin to decide for us if claims of election fraud are baseless or not. That's OUR job.
In the context, he was saying “unspeakable evil”, so using ‘bad evil’ instead wouldn’t be as good as just using ‘evil’ by itself as a noun.
I get what you’re saying in general, and I’m not such a stickler that I don’t see the value in spicing words up sometimes. I don’t like when it’s done insincerely, such as a form of gang code. Like that essay the other day about tumblr, how the girls there won’t even get their argument heard if they don’t first satisfactorily convince of their empathetic bona fides.
Another reason to limit adjectival embellishment—it leads to redundancy :)
Yeah I noticed that they never just teport objectively, they load opinion and false narrative.
I think of that every time I see the very damn example you pointed out, and I was even thinking it out loud to myself the other day.
Roaming the radio stations the other day, I heard Benny talking about how we need to help the Ukrainian people by sending in some money -- but it seems, ONLY the JEW Ukrainaian people needed the money.
Fuck Benny Boy.
But sure, he's right about some topics, from time to time.
I mean: how's he supposed to be controlled-opposition unless he says things we agree with, from time-to-time.
Trendy to hate on Ben but he brings the fricken logic to the table
He performs public beatdowns of liberal wussies in college meeting halls that are so epic it hurts, using logic and reason
His clarity of thought and critical thinking skills—and his velocity of verbally delivering the results of using them—are unsurpassed
But I get it, he's....well, you know
Which laws? Just wondering
I'm just glad he does not write as fast as he talks or I don't think I could have read that.
Well someone ought to tell the demented old man residing in the White House the above. Because he is sure ruining America, on full throttle, better than he did his vice president stint under Obama. I wonder where the stimulus money went he was in charge of? We see what Kamala does as the border czar...
He's an actor in a mask; he has no power.
Being in a country that never felt liberty and voice of the people, most people here basically think if there's no guns there won't be any shooting. Forgetting that criminals don't follow the law and being totally reliant of law enforcers to uphold the law did well for this country.
He couldn't afford a smart phone but could afford two AR-15's? Sounds like another FBI False Flag - but being a tranny he was probably on SSRI's .
Why aren't american schools gated?
The left is mobilizing all platforms to blow up the school shooting. Meanwhile lib shitholes are like 3rd world war zones; and we have a wide open borders.
Don't get too excited here, folks. The next step in the process is this:
"Obviously strict gun laws don't work, so the only thing left to us (gov't) is to take away the 2A and all of your guns. So sorry about this, but we MUST think of the cHiLdReN!"
For once, Ben Shapiro did not destroy Ben Shapiro.
Bens on point here.