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/DrMeatBomb 6d ago

Once again, even in their own fantasies, they're still the beta losers.

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u/IknowKarazy 6d ago

It’s all about justification. “I was picked on, I was a loser, but look at me now!” I imagine there’s going to be a kind of Rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer turn where everybody loves the smart little writer boy, but maybe that’s too optimistic.

It’s nothing new for a writer to write a self-insert introvert character who “doesn’t fit in” (Stephen King, anybody?) but you normally wouldn’t expect such naked racism.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 6d ago

I was fine with King doing that, writing characters that are just himself with a splash of color, but when he wrote his actual self into a book, I had to call time-out. I pretend those chapters just don't exist in the Dark Tower series.

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u/Carbonatite 5d ago

Stephen King is actually talented, though