I'm not addressing his other work, I don't know enough about it, only what he said on Rogan. They talked at length about the issues in these communites, the generation-spanning issues. Shapiro specifically brought up his grandfather and the role model he was, but when Rogan asks "yeah but what if your grandfather was a fuckup" he doesn't really have an answer to that. They talk at length about the harm of broken families, communities without male role models, poverty, on and on, but again, when asked if you were king of the world what would you do Shapiro's first answer was a huge increase to policing. If you're saying "yeah well he said this but meant that" sounds about like me saying "yeah I know they said defund the police but they really mean these reforms" which, even if true, there's no way to know that for people who don't dig into it.
As far as what I believe, no, I don't think anyone should be treated "special", just equal. I think any kind of "reparations" projects you institute need to be income/wealth focused, applicable to everyone not just any particular race. There's no version of this shit getting better than doesn't involve some kind of answer to the generations of poverty, imprisonment, murder, etc etc etc in those communities and the impact of that, and most of that you can't really make up for, but instead it's just being made worse now, continuing the cycle. But yeah man, I do think we need some kind of huge social program in this country that actually addresses these issues on the long term, not on the election cycles, and with compassion and empathy for all involved. I'm sure monkeys are more likely to fly out of my butt, but whatever.
