Planned Parenthood tweets that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. What does that mean, and why does it matter? Plus, why is it that only women can talk about abortion, and only women who think they re women can discuss abortion? And what does that have to do with transgenderism? And why does that matter, anyway? All that and much more on today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Subscribe to the Daily Wire here. Learn more about your ad choices. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and also consider leaving us a five star review on iTunes. The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies. We do not endorse the views of our employers, the opinions of our employees, or any other third party, unless otherwise specified. This episode was produced and edited by Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is a founding partner of The Daily Wire and is a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The New York Post. His work has been featured on the New Republic, and is widely syndicated, and he is a frequent guest on conservative radio stations across the country, including SiriusXM, The Rebel Report, The Hill, and many other publications, including Playboy, among other things. Thank you for listening to Ben Shapiro's work, Ben Shapiro s TWITTER and The Atlantic, and you can be reached at and on Instapreneur, is a very good friend of the podcast, too , and you should go to Ben s insta story on or , too , has a good thing to do it's podcast is can you say so much of that is great on Instafeedeedeeded by also is that's a great thing is great is that he does it is that is a great place is great and he also does it's it's also says it's great is great is recommended is also that's great on it's good is also , he also is a he also has it is also good on it is a good is amazing is very that is also he's also that is recommended it's a good is good is that goes it's amazing is also is also great is also I can go out on Instacapped, and so much so is that I also has a thing is also very good is very good and also he also can do it is very much ...
00:00:23.000Well, for those of you who are unaware of your own gender biases, and you're not a crazy person, the prefix cis has been crafted out of absolute horse manure.
00:00:33.000And now, it's a shortening of another horse manure world called cisgender.
00:00:38.000Cisgender is a longer term that supposedly means, according to dictionary definition, it means somebody whose biological sex is in line with the sex they think they are.
00:00:47.000Or as we used to call it, not being an insane person.
00:00:52.000If you are cis, then I'm cis because I'm a man who thinks I'm a man.
00:00:57.000But if you're cisgender, this kind of cis prefix is this made-up, schloppity-schlop crap that is designed to suggest that there are perfectly rational and sane people.
00:01:05.000Who have a sex that is different from their biological sex.
00:01:10.000So Planned Parenthood has to go out of its way to say that cis men, cis men are the only types of men who can't have babies.
00:01:19.000The whole thing is just ridiculous all the way through.
00:01:23.000Well, what's crazy about all of this, what's craziest, I think, of all, with regard to this cis stuff, is they're basically suggesting that a man who thinks he's a woman is a woman,
00:01:33.000But a woman who thinks that she's a man is a man.
00:01:36.000But only women can talk about abortion.
00:01:39.000If you're a woman who thinks she's a man, and you're therefore a man, but you can't get pregnant, can you talk about abortion?
00:01:45.000Or if you're a woman and you think that you're a man, and you can get pregnant, so you're a pregnant man, can you talk about abortion anymore?
00:01:52.000It's all so confusing, and this is the problem for the left and people like Planned Parenthood.
00:01:59.000The entire basis of Planned Parenthood is that women and men are inherently different.
00:02:03.000So inherently different that only women can talk about women's issues, and men can never talk about women's issues.
00:02:10.000And then along comes the transgender movement, and the transgender movement says, male, female, these are just gender stereotypes that are foisted upon us by a sexist, horrible society.
00:02:22.000Well, as you can see, these two things are in pretty significant conflict, right?
00:02:25.000If men are men and women are women, and so men can't talk about women things,
00:02:28.000What do you do with a woman who thinks she's a man or a man who thinks that he is a woman?
00:02:33.000And the answer for the left is you just sort of ignore it.
00:02:36.000And you come up with dramatically incoherent tweets like the one that Planned Parenthood just did.
00:02:42.000None of this makes any sense, of course, but the left doesn't make any sense.
00:02:45.000The only thing that matters is that regular men, you know, like white, straight men, those guys can't talk about lady stuff.
00:03:22.000Alrighty, so here we are, and we are now entering the Halloween season, and this is the official pumpkin of the Daily Wire, and I can't say that I made it.
00:03:31.000In fact, our producer Jonathan made it, which suggests that we need to give him more things to do in his off hours, because a lot of work went into
00:04:00.000I want to talk about the new Star Wars trailer just because everybody else is, so I have to give my take, and I have to make Mathis suffer in the process, and since he works for us and we pay his salary, there's really nothing he can do.
00:04:12.000So here is the new Star Wars trailer, and then I want to talk about why I think it's effective, and then I want to get into another piece of entertainment that actually has more ramifications for everyday life.
00:04:21.000But let's start with the Star Wars trailer, because hey, we don't do anything fun on The Ben Shapiro Show ever, so we might as well do something fun now.
00:06:34.000Okay, so that's enough of ruining Mathis' life here.
00:06:38.000Um, except that I'm now going to ruin it even further by discussing what we just saw.
00:06:41.000So, the trailer itself, obviously, this trailer is better than anything that has been nominated for an Academy Award since Lord of the Rings 1.
00:06:50.000I mean, seriously, because everything that Hollywood produces now is basically garbage except for tentpole films like this one.
00:06:55.000And the trailer's great, especially with all the nostalgia.
00:06:58.000I mean, you have the AT-AT walker at the beginning, and you've got
00:07:01.000Harrison Ford showing up, and Princess Leia showing up, and now I'm totally going to ruin Mathis' life.
00:07:05.000Well, Mathis, leave for a minute, and then just out of sympathy for you, you can take off for a minute.
00:07:10.000If you actually want to go, I'm going to let you go right now.
00:07:14.000So, all the rest of you guys, you understand.
00:07:16.000Okay, my theory of this trailer and of the poster is that Kylo Ren, who's the guy, not Kylie Ren, who's a member of the Kardashian family, Kylo Ren, who is the Darth Vader-looking
00:07:27.000Human, who is standing over the melted mask of Darth Vader, is in fact Luke Skywalker.
00:07:33.000The reason I say this is because if you look at the poster for the new Star Wars film, all the characters are on it, including Han Solo, including Princess Leia, but Luke is nowhere to be found.
00:07:41.000But there in the background, large as life, is Kylo Ren.
00:07:45.000I'm gonna go with Luke has been seduced by the dark side, which of course ruins the original trilogy, because the original trilogy is all about Luke Skywalker saving his father from the dark side.
00:08:15.000And so he decided to go back and ruin the original trilogy when he added stupid crap like, for example, when he did the remastering of Return of the Jedi.
00:08:23.000At the very end, you all remember the end of Return of the Jedi?
00:08:25.000At the end of Return of the Jedi, remember, Darth Vader, he's dead and they've burned his body.
00:08:32.000And James Earl Jones, it turns out, was somehow a really deformed-looking white guy.
00:08:36.000And at the very end, you remember that the magical figures of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader show up, right?
00:08:46.000And you remember that the original Darth Vader looks like an old guy, like the guy who's at the end of the movie.
00:08:51.000Well, because he'd done Episodes I, II, and III, abominations that they are, George Lucas decided to replace old Darth Vader with Hayden Christensen.
00:09:00.000And if you're Alec Guinness, if you are Obi-Wan Kenobi, you gotta be thinking to yourself, this so blows.
00:09:06.000In the afterlife, I still look like Alec Guinness.
00:09:08.000When I was young, I looked like Ewan McGregor.
00:09:10.000I don't get to look like Ewan McGregor in the afterlife.
00:09:14.000And here, this old jerk, who blew up an entire planet and killed all the Ewoks, this guy, who's like a genocidal dictator, this guy gets to go back to looking like Hayden Christensen.
00:11:36.000So here's the basic premise of this movie, and it is a very, very effective film.
00:11:41.000The basic premise of this movie is that Idris Elba is sort of a revolutionary colonel, captain, and he is leading a group of child soldiers in what is a civil war in what appears to be Ghana or Nigeria.
00:11:54.000They don't really specify the country.
00:11:58.000There's the government force, there's a rebel force, and then there's this group which is sort of stuck in between fighting both of them.
00:12:04.000And it's all about Idris Elba as the commander and this little kid, Agu, who's the child soldier, and it really is quite brutal and horrific.
00:12:12.000I mean, there's a scene where Agu is initiated into
00:12:15.000This child army by having a machete a guy to death and it's very graphic and it's very brutal.
00:12:21.000And there's a scene where Idris Elba, who's this kind of charismatic revolutionary leader, molests the lead character who's the kid.
00:12:27.000And it really is pretty, it's gritty and it's gruesome and it's really terrible, but it's very evocative of what exactly it's like in nations like this.
00:12:35.000And it seems, you know, I wouldn't know, but it seems about as realistic as it's possible to be on screen with the formation of child armies.
00:12:42.000The reason I talk about this is because there's one scene in this movie that's- and it's not even a scene, it's really a shot.
00:12:48.000And that is, at the very beginning of the movie, there's sort of this UN-monitored outpost where this kid is living before the whole thing crumbles and falls apart.
00:12:58.000And at a certain point, the UN pulls out because the government forces are on the move, and this kid's family is killed.
00:13:03.000Well, there's a scene later in the film where the kid is now part of the child army, and he's in a truck, and he's holding what appears to be an AK-47, and they're driving down the road.
00:13:13.000And as they're driving down the road, there's a van coming the other way.
00:13:46.000And the reason that this, I think, is important is we have to combine that with an article that was in the Washington Post today by a guy named Michael Garrison.
00:13:54.000Michael Garrison is a former Bush administration official.
00:13:58.000He used to write speeches for George W. Bush.
00:14:00.000And he's talking about American Christianity and the obligations of American Christians to the rest of the world.
00:14:06.000And he's talking specifically about the refugee crisis.
00:14:09.000He says, American Christianity has its own self-examination to conduct.
00:14:14.000The largest humanitarian disaster of our time, involving 4 million Syrian refugees and 7.6 million internally displaced, has mainly befallen Muslims.
00:14:50.000Is Christian faith merely a cover for tribalism, or will it demonstrate its essence in service to refugees of another faith who did nothing to deserve their faith?
00:14:58.000The idea being that American Christians, in order to be super Christian, we have to, and I'm a Jew, but Judeo-Christian people have to take in all of these Muslim refugees.
00:15:06.000And that's the way to solve their problems, is to take in all of these Muslim refugees.
00:15:10.000Now, as somebody who's been an ardent advocate of the idea that Muslim countries should take in their own refugees, and that it is not the responsibility of the West to take in every refugee from every part of the world without regard to culture, without regard to upbringing, without regard to values, I find this problematic and offensive.
00:15:28.000And I want to contrast this with the Beasts of No Nation mentality.
00:15:34.000Early in the 20th century, at the end of the 19th century, there was a serious belief in most parts of Western civilization that Western civilization had a duty to actually spread itself.
00:15:45.000That promulgating Western civilization was actually something that was good, something that was worthwhile.
00:15:50.000And then, thanks to Marxism, the idea became that imperialism, colonialism, this was not a good, hard adventure.
00:15:56.000All it really was was a way of exploiting the natives.
00:16:00.000Henry Stanley, who was one of the original explorers of Africa.
00:16:03.000He went there and explored Africa specifically because he felt that the Arab slave trade against black folks was something that could be overthrown if there was Christian influence in Africa.
00:16:14.000Because Africa at the time was rife with cannibalism and barbarity, and the Arabs who had come down from Northern Africa had come to enslave a lot of the black folks and carry them off in chains.
00:16:22.000More people were enslaved by Arabs in the Middle East than were ever enslaved by Americans in the pre-Civil War and Civil War period.
00:16:30.000People don't realize this or care about it because obviously white people are the only people who have ever done anything bad.
00:16:35.000And whenever we talk about, you know, Western colonialism and imperialism, people immediately go to the racism of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden.
00:16:42.000You know, it's the white man's burden to spread civilization among the black savages and all the rest of this, which of course is racist because civilization has nothing to do with race.
00:16:53.000The problem is that in fighting that racist tendency,
00:16:57.000Western civilization went to the point where we don't feel we have anything to promulgate to the world.
00:17:01.000We have nothing left to promulgate to the world.
00:17:03.000And so we now have this sort of dual idea.
00:17:07.000On the one hand, we're not allowed to go into areas like you see in this movie.
00:17:10.000It would be imperialist for us to go into those areas, impose order.
00:17:14.000Install somebody who's capable of imposing order.
00:17:16.000It would be imperialist for us to actually put people on the ground to try and nation-build, for example, or keep people there for long periods of time to nation-build, as Western civilization frequently did in the 19th and 20th centuries, with its attendant barbarity, but also attendant progress.
00:17:32.000That would be terrible and barbaric and horrible.
00:17:33.000There'd be no way to achieve it, and it would just be an example of Western racism and imperialism and colonialism quashing the Native spirit.
00:17:42.000You're seeing some of the Native spirit right there, and it ain't good.
00:17:44.000I mean, there are certain areas of the world where the Native spirit is just not good, and that has nothing to do with race, again.
00:17:49.000There are plenty of white places where the Native spirit ain't good.
00:17:53.000Kind of poorer culture in Appalachia, if you don't believe that.
00:17:57.000So on the one hand, we're not allowed to move Western civilization forward in parts of the world that have cultures that are barbaric and primitive.
00:18:05.000And on the other side, we're supposed to now, as sort of repentance,
00:18:10.000To spread Western civilization, we're not allowed to go forward.
00:18:14.000To spread Western civilization, we're supposed to take in refugees from non-Western civilizations into our own civilization, and then not assimilate them, not expect that they take in any American or Western values, but simply bring them in and give them stuff.
00:18:27.000Which again is a Marxist idea that if you give people stuff that magically solves the problem, of course this is untrue.
00:18:34.000And so you have people saying that Westerners, Europeans, Americans, American Christians have responsibility for taking in Muslims without trying to determine what exactly their ideology is, what their political philosophy is, what their belief system is.
00:18:48.000They're only there basically as a piggy bank.
00:18:49.000American Christianity is supposed to be a piggy bank apparently for people like Michael Gerson.
00:18:55.000And if you say, look, we're happy to take in people who want to imbibe Western culture and participate in Western culture.
00:19:00.000We're happy to take in Muslims if they're willing to leave behind radical Islam and all of its attendant ideas.
00:19:06.000They're willing to leave behind the barbaric tribalism that predominates in the Middle East.
00:19:10.000If you say that, you're a racist and you're terrible, but if you don't take them in, you're also racist and terrible.
00:19:16.000So you have to ruin your own civilization.
00:19:18.000You have to bring in a bunch of people from different cultures who have no interest in your culture, but interest in your welfare checks.
00:19:25.000And what you get in the end is basically what you're seeing in Europe right now.
00:19:28.000A Europe that is completely weak, has no sense of self, no sense of center, believes that it is solely responsible for all the ills on Earth because of its history of colonialism and imperialism, and then, as a way to atone, is taking in huge numbers of refugees that are destroying the essence of Western liberalism.
00:21:06.000Never mind that this guy's been responsible for genocide.
00:21:09.000I mean, there are scenes in this movie in which Idris Elba, who is the commander under this guy's rule, is going into cities and literally wiping the cities out.
00:21:17.000We're talking men, women, children, the whole deal.
00:21:20.000And here are the Westerners with their bundle of cash.
00:21:23.000And I'm not sure that the movie means to indict Westernism, except in the sense that it says they're not doing enough, presumably if they gave more cash.
00:21:29.000But at no point does the movie suggest, well, maybe some outside solutions would be a good thing.
00:21:35.000Maybe some Western civilization here would be a good thing.
00:21:38.000And I object to the newfangled idea that Western civilization is supposed to not be a converting force.
00:21:44.000It's instead supposed to be a retreating force, giving away its wealth to people who don't embrace the basic ideals of Western civilization.
00:21:52.000And that's how we can truly show that we're good-hearted.
00:21:55.000I'm not interested in showing that Western civilization is good-hearted.
00:22:00.000I'm interested in spreading the tenets of Western civilization that have made people more prosperous and happy all over the world wherever they're tried.
00:22:06.000If we don't find an aggressive sense of self here in the West, if we don't find an aggressive sense of self-worth with regard to Western civilization, I promise you there will be more countries that look like beasts of no nation and far less that look like the United States of America.