It's not 2,000. It's about 10. edit: someone said he thinks Shapiro said "two dozen" not 2,000, and listening it to again, that sounds right. It's a little high but it's not that far off.
I like Ben Shapiro and think he's a smart guy usually. I know this sub hates him, so enjoy me shitting on him in this post, I guess. I don't know if he's gotten too busy and can't keep his facts straight sometimes, or has gotten too complacent with his daily show, but once in a while he says clearly dumb, wrong shit where he should clearly know better.
The other day he said Russia needs Crimea to have a "warm water port", which is retarded, since Rostov & Novorossiysk are right next door. And no, while I don't expect Ben to know the details of Russian ports, I do expect him to know the basic geography of the Black Sea and the fact that Russia has a number of other coastal cities/ports on it. Anyway, this kind of thing happens more often than it should, and he ought to have better or more staffers giving him research and fact checking.
Graphic I've seen him link before where he mocked libs for being wildly wrong and thinking that thousands of unarmed blacks were mowed down by the cops every year when the true answer is about 10... and then he did the very thing he mocked the libs for himself today.
I used to make fun of Democrats for in majority believing that it's more than 1000.
Propaganda is powerful.
In fact, I'd be surprised if there was anyone here who had a mind completely free of regime propaganda.
That said, seems to me that misspeaking is the most likely scenario.
idk man it's pretty hard to confuse 10 for "maybe 2,000 on the high end."
Also his argument, which is that "maybe 2,000 on the high end." is actually totally okay because "there are 40 million black Americans in this country" so gunning down 2k a year is really just a drop in the bucket, isn't just a "typo" kind of argument, it's a fully formed argument built around the wrong number of 2k, and it's actually a super retarded argument that is politically tone deaf from a man with a long history of arguing that Republicans shouldn't say stupid politically tone deaf things.
That’s what I’m thinking because I’ve heard him mention the poll you are talking about
I only wrote that last part after reading your comment. It's just unlikely that he would believe this crap. The other stuff unfortunately still stands though.
Over 60% of Democrats think the Economy is doing great.
Most of the Left spends all it's time talking to itself, and as such, they aren't even aware that outside opinions exist.
Hell, where's that poll where a huge amount of Democrats thought 50% of the population of the US was black, and 30% was gay.