About not being an a*hole. RIP McCain, and well written.

https://quillette.com/2018/08/31/i-sold-my-soul-on-twitter-now-im-trying-to-win-it-back/

My curiousity was piqued by the reference to somebody being chastised, allegedly for tweeting:

“I don’t agree with [Ben Shapiro] on much, but he’s a genuine person who once helped me for no other reason than to be nice.”

Curious, I followed the link to Vox. Interestingly, the quote isn't complete, it went on:

"He doesn’t bend the truth. His intentions are good"

You can see why that is somewhat more provocative? Then Vox follows this with a list of links to Shapiro's works, presumably to demonstrate the curvature of veracity.

One allegation is that he called Obama a "philosophical fascist". That seemed curious, so I looked. What the linked article acutally says is this: "Obama's Philosophically Fascist State of the Union Address"

So his speech is (according to Shapiro) "philosophically fascist", but Obama the person is not, and Shapiro even states in so many words that of course, he's not calling Obama a nazi.

In any case, this is not Shapiro's proudest moment, and perhaps Vox is right in pointing it out. But what is notable, is that everybody slightly misrepresents the person they're criticising.