On Monday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro elicited an incendiary and violent response from, ironically, an editor at Reason magazine after Shapiro simply said he didn’t believe “transgender women” were actually women.
The set-up for the situation was this. Shapiro was responding to this tweet:
Shapiro responded by issuing a tweet with a rather simple message:
In case the message got misinterpreted, he immediately followed with this:
Shapiro’s dismissal of the transgender argument prompted a female editor for Reason who is a self-described “elder millennial” and writes about civil liberties and crime, to show her capacity for entertaining an argument with which she disagreed:
Shapiro replied:
As another conservative noted:
Shapiro added:
Brown’s tweet prompted some swift responses:
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