Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

Ben Shapiro

Jan 2013 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

In this galvanizing and alarming New York Times bestseller, “Ben Shapiro shows once and for all that the left is the single greatest source of bullying in modern American life” (Sean Hannity).

While President Obama and the left like to pretend that they oppose bullying with all their hearts and souls, the truth is far darker: the left is the greatest purveyor of bullying in modern American history. Bullying has morphed into the left’s go-to tactic, as they attempt to quash their opponents through fear, threat of force, violence, and rhetorical intimidation on every major issue facing America today.

In Bullies, Ben Shapiro uncovers the simple strategy used by liberals and their friends in the media: bully the living hell out of conservatives. Play the race card, the class card, the sexism card. Use any and every means at your disposal to demonize your opposition—to shut them up. Then pretend that such bullying is justified, because, after all, conservatives are the true bullies, and need to be taught a lesson for their intolerance. Hidden beneath the left’s supposed hatred of bullying lies a passionate love of its vulgar tactics.

Dubbed by Glenn Beck “a warrior for conservatism, against those who use fear and intimidation to stifle honest debate­­,” Shapiro takes on the leftist bullies—the most despicable people in America. By exposing their hypocrisy, he offers conservatives a reality check in the face of what has become the gravest threat to American liberty: the left’s single-minded focus on ending political debate through bully tactics.

Ratings and reviews

This read like one of those deranged American Pentecostal TV Preachers and made about as much sense. There must be some kind of right-wing factory that churns out cookie cutter versions of them all because this guy has precisely the same rhetoric and the same angle as every other right wing fundamentalist with a platform (or youtube channel) with his one dimensional ideologies dripping in megalomania and void of any rationality. No mind. I'll use it to prop up my wobbly table.

An den Haaren herbei gezogener Müll von einem Menschen, der weder Kritik zulassen, noch Verantwortung übernehmen kann, weder für eigene Fehlbarkeit, noch Vorurteile, der einfach nur eingefahren ist in seinem Denken. Als Resultat dessen sieht Shapiro in allem eine große Verschwörung - natürlich, es muss ja so sein, dass es eine gibt, es ist schließlich unmöglich, dass er einfach ein von Hass, Vorurteilen, Intoleranz, Borniertheit und Unreflektiertheit zerfressener Typ ist. Es muss eine große Verschwörung geben. Alles andere würde ja bedeuten, dass es okay ist, dass die Welt sich verändert und offener wird. Shapiro ist einer der Leute, die angepisst sind, weil die Welt ihm nicht allein dient. Die Kritik gegen die s.g. "Linken", die nach europäischen Standards maximal liberal, nicht links eingestuft würden, ist eine, die er u seine Konsorten sich selbst vorhalten müssten. Aber das wäre ja unbequem. Und außerdem lässt sich mit einer Verschwörung die man angebl aufdeckt mehr Kohle machen.

Extreme Right bias that favors their right of hate speech over the Left's preference to protest it. It seems the author feels that racist fearmongering should be protected while 1A clearly covers protests against it.

About the author

Benjamin Shapiro entered UCLA at the age of sixteen and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in June 2004 with a BA in political science. He graduated Harvard Law School cum laude in June 2007. The author of the national bestsellers, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future, and Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House, Shapiro has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows around the nation. He is married and currently runs Benjamin Shapiro Legal Consulting, based in Los Angeles. He is editor-at-large of Breitbart.com.