[It] was from an editorial he wrote in college back in the 90s, and while it IS a vile position to hold… not everyone was gifted with foreknowledge that it was baseless propaganda.
True. However, as I pointed out in another comment, he’s had 30 years to correct the record and didn’t until doing so became advantageous to his career prospects.
Coupled with his much more recent statements about the protesters, I don’t buy that he’s actually evolved on Israel at all since the 90s when, as you so rightly point out, the vast majority of people in the West didn’t know better than to believe the Hasbara.
… oh dear gods, now that you mention it, he literally fucking WORKED FOR Hasbara, in 1996.
I was gonna say “If I was embarrassed about something I did in the past I wouldn’t want to bring it up either” but Shapiro literally CREATED some of the rhetoric that tried to brainwash me when I was a kid. What the FUCK man… D:
True. However, as I pointed out in another comment, he’s had 30 years to correct the record and didn’t until doing so became advantageous to his career prospects.
Coupled with his much more recent statements about the protesters, I don’t buy that he’s actually evolved on Israel at all since the 90s when, as you so rightly point out, the vast majority of people in the West didn’t know better than to believe the Hasbara.
… oh dear gods, now that you mention it, he literally fucking WORKED FOR Hasbara, in 1996.
I was gonna say “If I was embarrassed about something I did in the past I wouldn’t want to bring it up either” but Shapiro literally CREATED some of the rhetoric that tried to brainwash me when I was a kid. What the FUCK man… D: