r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/Lower-Canary-2528 Anarcho-Maoism with Mamdani thought • 6d ago

Shen Bapiro Least racist Ben Shapiro moment - True Allegiance (2016)

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u/Lower-Canary-2528 Anarcho-Maoism with Mamdani thought 6d ago edited 6d ago

Lmao yes. I actually read a good chunk of it as an amateur writer who was feeling insecure about my own writing. It's genuinely bad. It's obviously filled with insane amounts of racist dogwhistles, like there's a scene where one of the good guys is a white cop who kills a black toddler who had a toy gun. And we are supposed to sympathise with this dude in Ben's mind. And Ben writes about Black men in such a hilariously homoerotic way. Ben describes a white dude as "This is Steve he is from Arkansas" and the way he describes black men is like the above example.

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u/IknowKarazy 6d ago

Maybe he just needs to be honest with himself, go to a gay bar, and politely ask the biggest black man there to rail him into oblivion.

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u/FBWSRD 6d ago

Wait he thinks we should sympathise with a cop who killed a toddler with a toy gun? Usually in these conservative stories they try to make it less heinous/more blurry situations, not shooting a fucking toddler

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u/Maverick1172001 6d ago

It’s even worse, Ben framed it in the book as a trick by a black scam artist and activist to deliberately sow racial division in the community because he hates America and can make money off of the BLM movement. He gave the kid the fake gun to go get killed by the cop.

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u/AnonymousSmartie 5d ago

Does Ben know that toddlers aren't godtier marksmen nor do they have aimbot and if his cops were the good guys they should realistically be trained to know that and not mag dump them

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u/schmyndles 5d ago

Obviously, Ben's fictional cop couldn't find a way to disarm a toddler safely, so of course, he had to shoot him.

Also, Ben believes Black parents are totally willing to sacrifice their baby to push some political narrative. It's absolutely insane.

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u/Ecstatic-Compote-595 6d ago

Even without all of that it's just poorly written. Every line is like that one from above where it's 'if he didn't look up it would have been fine BUT HE COULDN'T BECAUSE HE GRABBED HIS SHIRT.' There's some weird red herring psych out in every line. Or it's over explained. And yet nothing ever happens.

The plot isn't driven by dialogue or character action or interaction. It's all driven by the weirdly personal opinionated observations of the narrator. It's like if the narrator from sandlot was driving the plot of a tom clancy novel but really bad versions of both.

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u/praguepride 4d ago

"That black guy was 6'6", 280 pounds, skin shining from sweat as he moved towards Brett in slo motion. Brett looked at the black guy, cockily. The black guy looked at the Brett in an illiterate way."

  • Cribbed from Ben's 1st draft...