What are some good resources to help my kid answer back Ben Shapiro fans

Post date: 2019-03-24 17:35:54

My beloved kid is an 8th grader who identifies as non-binary. They have several classmates, especially one in particular, who like to pick political fights and get a lot of their information from Ben Shapiro and his ilk. What are some good resources, youtube channels, podcasts, books, etc... that would help them answer this sort of challenge?

The most recent incidents with the particular classmate of my kid involved their classmate using the name "Ben Shapiro" in an in-class online multiplayer trivia game (Kahoot!) and another day bad mouthing the Women's March as anti-Semitic and challenging various classmates over whether they supported the Women's March and generally doubting the existence of sexism in society.

My kid is very bright, and has some interest in politics and social justice, but is generally not up on the news and current controversies. Overall they'd usually prefer to be focusing on their own interests in science and writing and making the world a better place, and not getting into political debates.

Unfortunately there seems to be a certain type of person who feels to the need to impose their views on everyone around them, and my kid stands out for several reasons: they're non-binary, they're consistently one of the top academic performers in their classes, and they're, in their own soft-spoken modest way, willing to speak up for what they believe in.

They have expressed some frustration and annoyance to me about this situation and I want to help them have a resource for building up good answers to these sorts of intellectual bullies. These kids are getting fed info from one side and I'd like my kid to have a good resource for countering it.

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