True Allegiance

True Allegiance () is a 2016 novel by Ben Shapiro, and so far his only attempt at writing an (openly) fictional book. The entire book is a series of "based off a true story" events with obvious expies for characters in then-modern day politics. Similar to Glenn Beck's The Overton Window, it does not come off as if Shapiro was writing this with any self-awareness about how wrong he gets things, nor that he is intentionally hyperbolizing events for the purpose of a satire; instead, it perpetually seems like Shapiro is just writing one of his typical books with the names changed. To give just one example from early in the book, here is how Shapiro describes President Prescott:
Gee, does that remind you of anybody? Does the mention of a Chicago politician who was young and got compared to John F. Kennedy and ran against somebody with a military background who was also old and a member of the same political party as the unpopular incumbent President remind you of anybody?
Oh, but it only gets more subtle from there, as Shapiro writes about the administration of this hypothetical President:
Shapiro’s subtlety for allegory gets even worse as President Prescott creates his "Work Freedom Program." Jose pointed out in his review of the book that one popular Nazi Germany slogan was "Work, Freedom, Bread."Reviewing Ben Shapiro's Garbage Novel "Work will set you free" was also an inscription over a gate in the Auschwitz concentration camp.Arbeit macht frei
==How Ben writes black people==
One of the characters in this book is a black man by the name of Levon, who Shapiro describes as a gangster that runs a barbershop which doubles as a front for his crack cocaine ring in Detroit, Michigan. ("Detroit was a shithole. But it was his shithole.") He also describes "a cute black kid, wearing a Simpsons T-shirt and somebody's old Converse sneakers, and baggy jeans." A police officer, Richard O'Sullivan, shoots this kid and "the blood seeped through Homer Simpson's face."
When the left-wing podcast Chapo's Trap House covered the book, they all made note that it seemed like Shapiro had only experienced the inner cities through watching the film Chapo Trap House - True Allegiance Compilation However, the actually fucked up part comes through events revealed later. Later on, the reader learns Levon had been the reason Kendrick Malone, the kid shot by the police officer, was killed and that he intentionally did so in order to get revenge on whitey:
If this serves as a microcosm for how Shapiro thinks the black community operates, then he is basically saying that black people intentionally enter situations where police have the right to use violence against them, which is a rather disturbing view for how people operate. 
It also has no basis in reality; the mention of a toy gun makes this more than likely a reference to the shooting of Tamir Rice in 2014. However, Rice and the officer, Timothy Loehmann, never actually had any kind of confrontation; instead, "within two seconds of [Loehmann] getting out of his squad car", Rice was shot dead.Cleveland just fired the cop who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice more than 2 years ago
Shapiro seems to have a massive double standard when it comes to violence. After the shooting of Kendrick Malone, we hear the following about the aftermath:
Going back to Jose, he notes that this is not the only chapter from this book which ends with a standoff with law enforcement. The previous chapter is about a woman named Soledad Ramirez, a rancher who lost her farm because of EPA regulations and blew up a federal building as a result, although "Soledad had insisted on a weekend attack to avoid any human toll." However, Soledad is supposed to be sympathized with, while Levon and the citizens of Detroit aren't.
==Ben's Iraq delusion==
Another plot point in this novel is that, as a character named Brett Hawthorne discovers, Iraq did have WMDs when the United States invaded, and it had merely been covered up by the media. Said weapons still existed, and were now in a handful of different Middle Eastern nations:
First off, claiming the intelligence agencies "lied" and claiming they had been "wrong" are a tad different. Documents like the Downing Street Memo show the Bush Administration and the Blaire Administration both fixed intelligence against Iraq in the run on to war.Downing Street Memo explained Other claims, such as that Iraq was attempting to get Yellowcake Uranium from Niger, were not backed up by the intelligence at the time despite Bush's claiming them as true.The Uranium Hoax that Triggered the Iraq War
Second off, why would Saddam hide WMDs in a nation that he spent a decade fighting a war against?Iran-Iraq War
==See also==
*What's Fair: And Other Short Stories — Shapiro's e-book of awful short stories
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